Gods Presence Transforms You

Repentance & Confession

Draw Near To God- Cleanse- Purify- Humble

James 4:8 (NKJV) 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse yourhands, yousinners; and purify your hearts, youdouble-minded.

----Thankfulness----

Psalm 100:4 (NIV) 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Gates-entry point into something- entry point of city or fortress

Dict.Thankful definition, feeling or expressing gratitude for what you have received

—Praise—

Thankfulness and Praise are often put together in scripture particularly when it comes to entering Gods presence

Psalm 100:4 (NIV) 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Def. Praise- Verbalised Adoration- Speak positive words about another

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----Gods Presence Transforms You ------

You Become Like Who You Spend Time with

“According to research by social psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard, [the people you habitually associate with] determine as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life.”

Social Proximity Effect.

-“Whom you spend time with is whom you become”

Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. This relates to the law of averages, which is the theory that the result of any given situation will be the average of all outcomes.

Time With Negative People Make You Negative ---Time With Positive People....?

Proverbs 22:24–25 (NASB95) 24 Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, 25 Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself.

Time In Gods Presence Transforms You

Acts 4:13 (NKJV) 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

Illustration- My NZ accent has changed to more of an Australian accent.

-When I became a christian my language changed

Time In Gods Presence Transforms What you Say

Acts 4:18–20 (NKJV) 18 So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”

You Cant Help Speaking What you See And Hear

If You Spend Most Of Your Time With Your Problem Your Problem Becomes You

Gods Presence Fills You- Acts 4:7–8 (NKJV) 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:

Empty Christians- We need to be people who are continuely filled as we empty ourselves in service and living life.

John 7:37–38 (NKJV) 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Empty People In An Empty World- People look to fill their emptyness with other things but their emptyness doesnt get satisfied so they keep trying to fill it by the worlds continued pursuit to have