Day 21- Your Presence Is All I Want
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied
-Matthew 5:6
In every person’s life there are moments that stand out as milestones. For me it was in January of 1997. It was a breezy day in Pensacola, Florida at the Brownsville Assembly of God. I remember driving onto the property around 2:00pm and there were hundreds of people standing in the parking lot waiting for the doors to open. They were singing, worshiping and declaring the greatness of the Lord. These were everyday people in love with Jesus; people who were hungry and desperate for a move of God in their lives. They came to Brownsville expecting God to reveal His glory to them like Moses experienced on Mount Sinai.
On that day, I personally went to Brownsville to see what it was all about. I went there as a spectator, and skeptic. However, the atmosphere of expectation began to quicken my spirit and break me. I wanted to experience what was going on. Expectation is an interesting thing. Something spectacular happens when you expect.
In Exodus 33 Moses had an encounter with God that not only changed himself but the entire group that he lead out of Egypt. God told Moses to take his people up from where they were but He was not going to go with them because they were a stiff-necked people. Moses was so shaken by this that he made this statement to God in Exodus 33:15, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.” Moses was so changed by God’s glory that his face was radiant when he came down from Mount Sinai.