Practicing the Presence of God | Part 1

What is the secret to an abundant life. Listen to Adrian Rogers made a papal bull driving during the existing but they are not living yet do something seem to be born was so. And yet they accomplish so much that other people seem to be born with.

So she yet accomplished so little.

What is the difference I submit to you that the difference the secret is the presence of God. Welcome to the word 90 featuring the dynamic teaching the pastor and author Adrian Rogers, as you just heard explained there are many people who are existing within secret to an abundant life is the presence of God and perhaps the most Christlike character in the Old Testament who exhibits that a life fully lived.

As Joseph no matter what happened to them.

Joseph practice the presence of God. There are four principles in Genesis 37 that revealed how to prosper like Joseph. If you have your Bible turn there now as Adrian Rogers explains how to practice the presence of God. What is the greatest tragedy of all I suppose the greatest tragedy of all would be to come to your death. Being ready to die because Jesus said I've come that you might have life and have it abundantly that many people were grinding it out. You are enduring who are existing but they are not living one man described this way you struggle, maturity, blunder and old age.

I regret yet do something seem to be born with so little, and yet they accomplish so much.

Now the people seem to be born with so much yet they accomplish so little. What is the difference I submit to you that the difference the secret is the presence of God. Now we going to study the life of a young man named Joseph, and I will show you later on as a refrain about Joseph that comes in the story of Joseph and he says this and God was with, and God was living and God was with him. That is, here was a man who learned how to practice the presence of God is an interesting thing. The book of Genesis is a wonderful book. Let me give you an astounding 525% of the book of Genesis is about Joseph. That's an amazing thing because Genesis is also tells about the creation of the universe, and five were five words. He says he made the stars also. Words verse 10 and 25% of this one book about one man whose name was Joseph.

I believe the most Christlike character in the Old Testament was Joseph and we have so much to learn about him and the story we going to read pretty soon takes up when Joseph was a teen 17 years of age just about ready if he would live in today society graduate from high school and sometimes we think that these were mighty men. Great men never had any problems and somehow they were born full grown and mature in all of that day that Joseph Joseph came from a dysfunctional family. His father Jacob was a con artist by nature I mean he was. If you study the life of the Jacob you want to stand before God got hold of Jacob turning inside out, upside down, Jacob was a con artist and an uncle Laban was slicker then Jake and this was cheap cheating cheat now. Megan did know life story, but let me tell you that on top of all of that. His mother died when he was in the mid teens. Can you imagine the trauma of having your mother had a gracious beautiful mother's name was Rachel which he died. And when he came up friendly.

He lived in a nest, a swarm of wicked, ungodly brothers, that's a kind of a background that this boy had a 17-year-old kid that's the start that again and then we can find out in the story that he gets and all kinds of difficulty and trouble. So to set the stage if you not familiar with the story of Joseph. I'm going to give you just a brief thumbnail sketch of this boy named Jos the first of all, he was his father's favorite son. I believe he was his father's favorite son because he was born of Rachel's true love, Jacob love Joseph so much that he gave him a couple a coat of many colors and will talk about that code later on, but he receives a coat of many colors and they receive some green and God gives him a vision and God says to Joseph this boy 17-year-old boy one day all of the world's resources are going to be at your disposal. In all of the world rulers gunpowder your feet just a 17-year-old cat had gotten gifts in this dream, and he tells it to his brothers his brothers in him because of his coat of many colors is distinctiveness. They are jealous of him because of the father's love for him. They resisted him because of his dreams and his visions which he told them well upon a time when they were out in the field. His brothers took him stripped off his beautiful coat.

How really wanted to kill him. They put them in a diet where there was no water to languish there and then when a caravan coming to Egypt passed by, they said well they will do something better than let him die and the pit will selling and so they sold them for the price of a slave is this team boy got nothing wrong. Now he has been abused by his brothers sold as a slave. I can see him as he bound to the caravan.

There, the whip whistled through the air and off he goes all the way to Egypt when he gets down to Egypt be put on the slave lockdown in Egypt and the chief of conifers guard Puffer, who was part of her. He was the one who protected the Pharaoh and he saw this goodly handsome young man full of virility and strength. Bodiford bought him and made him a household slave, but Joseph was of such character in industry and ingenuity and fidelity that he begins to rise up in the ranks and before long he is running Bodiford's household for him. But then conifers why begins the last after Joseph and begins to try to entice him to an adulterous affair which Joseph refused, and Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned so she says that Joseph tried to assault her and a rape her and her husband takes Joseph now by the nap of his neck and cast him into prison. He's languishing there and present not doing something wrong, but for doing something right for keeping self to work and there he is down in the present and he begins to rise to the top again is ready to be in control of the present and he helps a man who gets out of prison. The man's a Joseph I know you're innocent. I'll speak a word for you when I get out of prison, but he forgets Joseph and Joseph. Is there rotting in prison languishing in prison he stays there for a while until Pharaoh has a dream any somebody to interpret the dream. Joseph is taken out of prison because Joseph has the wisdom of God about it. Joseph interprets the dream for Pharaoh there's going to be seven years of plenty and seven years of famine and Pharaoh says Joseph you are so wise you're so smart. I will put you in charge of all of this and Joseph is gathering grain and after a while Joseph becomes the Savior that known world, and the physical material sense and Pharaoh exalts Joseph, he is the prime minister and is a famine in the land down in the land of Canaan, those wicked brothers sold him into slavery have to go to Egypt without but I don't know who Joseph is. I may Joseph address and like an Egyptian. He's grown up each change, but they, they have to appear before Joseph Joseph for grain but finally Joseph reveals himself to his brothers and forgive his brothers brings his father, Darrell Jake all the way from Canaan to Egypt. It is a glorious store. It's one of the greatest stories ever written. I mean, it's not fiction it is fact.

It is true, and it is still a Bible truth.

There is a theme let's just look at that turn to chapter 39 if you will him for just a moment. Genesis 39 verse two and the Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man BC that like in chapter 39 verse 21, but the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy and gave him favor in the side of the keeper of the prison like you will in verse 23, the keeper of the prison look not be anything that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him that is with Joseph and that which he did.

The Lord was with him and made him to prosper. I love that the Lord was with the Lord was with a little was what happened here was a man was practicing the presence of God.

Now would you like to do that. Would you like to prosper running have real prosperity is not necessarily well prosperity is the progressive realization of the will of God for your life would you like to prosper before principles conduit go back to chapter 37. If you will hear principle number one express your God given difference when God saved you, God made you different, and Joseph expressed his God given difference.

Read the first four verses, and Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob, Joseph, being 70 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren in the lab was with the sons of Bill Haw and with the sons of Zilpah. His father's wives and Joseph brought him to his father. The evil report that doesn't mean he was a tattletale that means he was a truth teller that Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age, and he had made him a coat of many colors and when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren.

They hated him and could not speak peaceably to him about putting down big plaintiffs rape. Joseph was distinct and Joseph was different and they multicolored coat that he wore was a mark of distinction now. I believe in would get in. This later was because Joseph was given the birthright, which was spiritual as well as material that is he was distinct because of his nobility, they they multicolored longsleeve coat was a a mark of nobility melons that have say to you today folks.

I want to tell you that we are nobility and the Lord Jesus Christ I'm the king of France is that you're full of yourself. Danielle I McKay imprints don't call me pastor just call me Prince Adrian the folks I tell you has made us a priests we are somebody we are a chosen generation, the Bible calls us a peculiar people. We are different and the world presents are nobility and the Lord Jesus Christ in the world always wants to squeeze us into its mold as Paul said in Romans chapter 12 verse two. Be not conformed to this world. Joseph was different. His brothers hated him he would not conform. I can hear these wicked brothers that Joseph you sissy Joseph taken rank of this Joseph take a puff of this must get old Jill date with you know who you and Joseph. They constantly trying to get Joseph to conform, but he will do it.

He would not conform to this world wants to make us conform guarantee that something about nature that makes us want to conform. We speak of a flock of sheep, a pack of wolves, a swarm of birds a covey of quail a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese a bevy of women again.

The boys were my saying to giggly girls. We all want to get in and somehow conform and that and the chief religion in America is the call to conformity the Chiefs in is to be different as is very strange that sometimes, however, somebody will break out from the group new be different. They'll be immobile and rather than put his hand on this way you put the bill back this way and for while all the kids look at them in first thing you know there'll put the bill back this way. That's the way they wear the hat. I think those keep the sun out of your eyes, not off your neck well went ahead and then first thing you know somebody will wear a pair of baggy pants that most young respectable young men would be caught dead in the near where these pants hanging down a real bag and so next thing you know all the kids aware of these baggy pants they don't want to be different. They want to conform somebody will put a safety pin through his nose could visit these kids go to safety pin through the nose got to conform you got to the light crab I was reading where some scientists were trying to understand why fish swim in schools and what they did. They took a fish and by surgery. They did a lobotomy on that fish removed his brain, but he could still swim they took away the schooling instinct evidently was in his fish and so he no longer found the school he just swam off by himself.

I was a what happened all the rest follows him as a fish means being in the rest are following him for further reference.

Go to junior high school here was Joseph. Joseph refuses to conform. He is different. I want to tell you, Frank, child of God is different what we believe starts at a different source of follows a different course. It ends at a different conclusion and whip twice born people in the world once more people and you're going to be going against the tide. Most of the time you're to stand out like a diamond in a gold mine number two. Explore your God-given during explore your God given dreams look in verse five and Joseph drain the green and he told to his brethren, and they hated him. Yet, the more and he said, and I am here. I pray you this dream which I have dream for behold we were binding sheaves in the field. Hello my Shiva Rose also stood upright, and behold your she stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheet and his brethren said in him shalt thou indeed reign over us or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us and they hated him yet more for his dream and for his words and then verse 9/11. He dreamed another dream, but here was a man who had a God given brain is just a team but God is putting a dream into his car back to you, that uses a wonderful time not to conform, but to green.

Let God put a dream in your heart. I was about Joseph's age a little younger when God called me into the ministry. I was in high school and my pastor told me that God had a plan for everybody's life and I wanted to know God's plan for my life and I said to the Lord Lord Adm. which will me to do, but what ever it is I want you to show me your will and whatever it is I want to do now God spoke to Joseph through a dream he may speak to you some other way, but the point is this that God has a plan for your life would you like to know what God's plan for your life is really not remember Joseph just had a vision he had a hand that's all. God didn't give them a roadmap on how they Joseph would been perturbed that God told him about the pit and imprisonment and the accusations all this dream yet something that he aspired to Romans 12 versus wanted to beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable under God which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world knows the order would be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

You want to know God. There is there's a formula presentation plus transformation equals realization presentation just present yourself and have you presented yourself the care I am God. Most people never to present yourself to sign the contract and handed to him and tell him to fill it in.

Don't be afraid of that because when you present yourself to him.

Then you transform. Be not conformed to this world but be transformed and the word transform is the word we get our English word metamorphosis from you will have a divine metamorphosis. What is a metamorphosis. It actually means matter means change more office means form to change a phone. It literally means when that which is only inside comes to the surface. For example, of a worm goes into the cocooning comes out of moth or butterfly that has gone through a math offices.

They enter nature of that caterpillar is a beautiful butterfly. Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration.

The Bible says he was transfigured is the same word metamorphosis.Jesus went through a metamorphosis. What was his inner nature, glory it just came the surface.

What is the inner nature of a child of God. If you are born again while this God's glory is Jesus your enter nature is Jesus Christ lives in you when you present yourself to him a living sacrifice, there will be a metamorphosis, and that was only inside will come to the surface, rather than letting the world squeeze it down. It begins to come presentation plus transformation equals realization and you will know what is that good perfect acceptable will of God. Hey folks, listen to me you will find the will of God. The will of God finds you, you get your heart right with God. You present yourself to him the glory of Jesus come out if you have the mind of Christ, can you just get in the stream you find out that God will be guiding you gotta be guiding you my name Joseph God and give Joseph a roadmap, but God gave to Joseph dream that all say God. You shall not only do not consider I want to do. No sir now.

Make sure it's God speaking now when I talk about dreams Amoco McConnell ambition.

I'm not telling you that God has promised to fulfill your fantasies I've talked about a God given dream. I found this verse, Jeremiah 29 verse eight. The Bible says neither hearken to your dreams, which he calls to be dream, but that's a good derided them know you didn't write it down, hearken not to your dreams, which he had green God has a dream for you and God wants us to dream dreams not daydreams God-given dreams. The book of Joel says in Joel chapter 2 verse 28 and it should come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams dear young men shall see visions, what to say anything like God be real and you let God be with you.

You think about that today and coming up tomorrow.

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