Bay Chapel

How Do We Get In God's Presence?

Bay Chapel Season 2025 Episode 18

Mother's Day | May 11, 2025
Jen Morris

✓  WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE SUPERNATURAL.

Luke 23:44-46 (AMP) “It was now about the sixth hour (noon), and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.), because the sun was obscured; and the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two [from top to bottom]. And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit!” Having said this, He breathed His last.”


✓  THE GREATEST PLACE TO BE IS IN HIS PRESENCE!

In His Presence: There is PEACE

John 14:27 (AMP) Peace I leave with you; My [perfect] peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. [Let My perfect peace calm you in every circumstance and give you courage and strength for every challenge.]

In His Presence: There is REST

Matthew 11:28 (GNT) “Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.

In His Presence: There is HEALING & FREEDOM

Isaiah 9:6 (GNT) A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And he will be our ruler. He will be called, “Wonderful Counselor,” “Mighty God,” “Eternal Father,” “Prince of Peace.”
In His Presence: You can see the SUPERNATURAL

In His Presence: There is JOY

Psalms 16:11 (ESV) You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

In His Presence: WE UNDERSTAND HIS WORD

In His Presence: WE ARE LESS LIKE US & MORE LIKE HIM

In His Presence: WE SEE A VICTORY

HOW DO WE GET IN GOD’S PRESENCE?

1. We POSITION ourselves in His Presence.

Psalms 139: 23-24 (NIV) Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

2. We stay PLANTED in His Presence.

Jeremiah 17:5-8 (NIV) This is what the Lord says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
    in a salt land where no one lives.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”


3. We PRAISE in His Presence.

Isaiah 61:1-3 (NKJV) “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,

To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”