The Omnipresent God
by Jacob Phillips
April 5, 2020 · Apostolic Lighthouse Church, Dayton
Kind: sermon
Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:2, 1 Kings 20:19-28, Psalm 139:8

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Praise the Lord everyone. Isn't it wonderful to feel God's presence no matter where we are. He is a great God. And as Pastor Smith just said this is not caught God by surprise. I know we keep reiterating that and it's because we live in a world that thinks this is the end of the world. But I'm here to tell you today this is not the end of the world. This is the beginning of the greatest revival that this world has ever seen and God thought enough of you to let you be a part of it. And he thought enough of me to let me be a part of it and I'm glad to be apostolic in this day and season that we're God is doing mighty things and the best is yet to come. If you have your Bibles today, the book of 1 Samuel chapter 17 a very familiar text, verse two. The Bible says and Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah, set the battle in array against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side. And there was a valley between them. If God will help us today, I want to preach just for a few moments and I'm going to try my best to be as brief as possible but still obey the Holy Ghost. I'm going to preach to us today the omnipresent God. The omnipresent God. Wherever you are, would you just lift your hands and your voice right now and

ask God to move wherever you are. Ask him to touch you, to help you. Lord, we love you. We praise you. We worship you. Give you glory. We give you thanks. There's nobody like you in heaven or in earth. God, you're so good to your people. You've been a way maker. You've been a deliverer. And God, you're the same yesterday today and forever. God, and if you've ever done it before, you can do it again. And we're standing on your word, believing you today. God, that you're going to do the miraculous in our midst even now. In Jesus' name we pray. And everyone said, "Amen." Hallelujah. Since God is an eternal God, spatial dimensions cannot restrict him. God's time is infinite. Therefore, God is unrestricted with respect to space. King Solomon realized that God greatly transcends containment. Simply meaning that no matter how beautiful or no matter how big or wonderful the tabernacle could have been. We're talking about a billion dollar building in today's world. No matter how expensive, how much gold and silver and so on and so forth that was in that tabernacle, he realized that God still could not be contained by that building. Magnificent it was, but it wasn't magnificent enough for God. Large it was, but not large enough to house God. God cannot be confined by any part of space, no matter how vast or how beautiful. The omnipresence of God signifies not only that he cannot be contained by the largest space possible, but it also means that the presence of God is just not some blob on the outside of space as we know it. But God is a a definitive being at everywhere at every time. God is in your past. God is in your future. And God is in your presence. And as humans, this is hard to comprehend simply because we can't physically see God. It is our human nature to require a show me answer to the unanswered questions of life. We desire to be able to see it and touch it and hear it and feel it and all use all of our senses before we believe it. We even our terminology suggests that seeing is believing. I wouldn't have believed it if I had not seen it for myself. We use all of these terms to express our humanistic nature of wanting to be able to wrap our hands and our eyes around what we see. Therefore, we can believe in it. But simply because we are flesh and we rely on fleshly things. But when you become a child of God, friend, God doesn't always work that way. As a matter of fact, our Bible teaches US THAT WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT by sight. When we are born in the spirit, we understand that God gives us faith to believe in him. Unto every man is given the measure of faith. AND WITHOUT FAITH, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE GOD. GOD PLEASURES IN THE FACT THAT WE DON'T KNOW what to do and we don't know where to go, but yet we trust in him. As we walk THIS TIGHTROPE OF LIFE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED, KNOWING THAT HE is working and he is moving AND HE HAS GOT our hand. And when we see all of that, we understand that it's very inevitable that when God's PEOPLE BEGIN TO HAVE THAT KIND OF FAITH, THAT GOD COMES DOWN TO where they are. The Bible tells us, "Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst." I'm here to tell you today THAT WHEREVER YOU ARE, GOD IS THERE WITH YOU. We understand not only that God is the omnipresent God, but he is a divine presence God. MEANING THAT GOD COMES DOWN in a certain place. God is visiting us here now. God is with you in your home or in your car. When you begin to pray and talk to him, God will come down and visit with you. Amen. When you go through the Old Testament, I I won't take time to preach it all. But when you go through the Old Testament, you can see God's divine presence scattered throughout the Old Testament. Sometimes it was in a tent,

sometimes in a cave. But typically, we can go through again, it's scattered through the Old Testament and see that it was typically on a mountain top. And when we understand that, we have an understanding without a shadow of an inkling of a doubt that God is the God of the mountain top experience. And knowing that that's who God is, we have to understand that God wants everyone to experience this feeling of being on the mountain top. Let me tell you, friend, it's the will of God for you to live in victory. It's the will of God for you to live in authority. It's the will of God for you to be strong and be not afraid of your enemy. And so throughout the word of God, we see the the mountain men, if you will, in the word of God that were men that were operating in the will of God. Strong men. Men not afraid to be who God had called them to be. We see from the very beginnings, we see Abraham as a mountain man. He crawls up on top of a mountain that God has spoken to him of. And he hears the voice of God as he is getting ready to sacrifice his only son. Abraham, Abraham, don't kill him. I've got a promise for you. And we see that Abraham has climbed up the rough side, if you will, of the mountain in order to get a promise from God. Can I tell you today, friend, that you may have had and experienced promises in your life, but you've never experienced a promise until you've crawled up on top of the mountain and experienced the promise. I wish I had time to preach about Jonathan and and Caleb and all of the great mountain men of the Bible. I can even talk about in the land of Gadara where Jesus delivered a man that was living in the caves of a mountain top. I I think by now you can assuredly and agree with me that God is a God of the mountain top experience. Which brings us to our text today where we see Saul and the army of Israel going out against the Philistines and they are prepared to fight using their tactics that they always do. The Bible says that they made camp by the valley of Ela. And Israel was on the one mountain side and the Philistines were on the other. And Goliath would come down into a valley, the place where Israel had never fought before. And he would ask them to send him a man that they might fight. YOU SEE, THE ISRAELITES HAVE never experienced this before. When they killed the Canaanites, they killed them in the mountain sides. The Amalekites was in the mountain sides. The Jebusites in the mountain sides. Jericho itself was built into a side of the mountain. And now a man is asking them to fight down in the valley. So Israel's on the one side and the Philistines are on the other. And it's my own personal opinion that they were scared that they were not scared to death of Goliath because of his size. Say, "Well, I've always heard in Sunday school that they were afraid of him cuz he was so much taller." Well, you just go through Israel's history and you'll see that there was time after TIME ISRAEL'S ALWAYS HAD TO DEAL with giants. Israel has NEVER HAD A SPACE IN TIME in their life where they have not been FIGHTING GIANTS. SO WHAT'S this one? What's one more giant that would stand and defy God's people? As a matter of fact, IF YOU REWIND YOUR BIBLE JUST TWO CHAPTERS TO 1 Samuel chapter 15, you will find that Saul has bound hand and foot Agag, who his history records was a giant who some even say was approximately 6 in taller and 50 lb to 100 lb heavier than Goliath. So what's the problem here? Israel's always fought giants. And as a matter of fact, like I just stated, THEY JUST BOUND A GIANT hand and foot. They didn't EVEN KILL HIM. SAUL AND HIS MEN WERE SO BAD, THEY WALKED INTO AGAG'S HOUSE, A GIANT, AND BOUND HIM WITH CHAINS. AND NOW THEY ARE RUNNING SCARED because of this man. WHAT'S THE DEAL? WHY NOW? WHY THIS WAY? SAUL, YOU'RE TALLER THAN EVERYBODY else in the Israelite camp, HEAD AND SHOULDERS HIGHER. WHY AREN'T YOU AFRAID WHY ARE YOU AFRAID TO GO OUT and fight Goliath? You see, friend, Saul was afraid because Goliath was asking him to fight in a place that he has never fought before. Your Bible tells us in our scripture text today that they would go out into the valley of Elah and that is the place that Goliath would stand and defy God's army. That's where

we see David show up with a different approach. He wants to fight and Saul says, "Son, you don't understand what you're getting into. Not only is he a giant, not only is he taller than you and stronger than you, but he's asked he asked us to fight down in the valley." And David comes up there and we get the commentary of what he begins to say. Simply, David stops and says, "I want you to understand where I'm coming from." You see, David was a shepherd and as a shepherd, David knew what it was like to watch his father's sheep and if YOU STUDY ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAELITE SHEPHERDS, you'll find that they never kept their sheep up in the mountain tops, BUT THEY ALWAYS KEPT THEM DOWN IN THE valleys where there was lush, green pastures. And so, DAVID STOPS AND HE SAYS, "SAUL, LET ME JUST TELL YOU SOMETHING, BUDDY. GOD DELIVERED THE LION AND THE BEAR TO ME AND HE DIDN'T JUST DELIVER THE LION AND THE BEAR, BUT HE DID IT WAY DOWN IN THE VALLEY LOW. AND SO SHALL THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE BE." CAN I TELL YOU THAT DAVID HAD A REVELATION THAT HE'S AN OMNIPRESENT GOD. HE'S NOT JUST GOD ON SUNDAY WHEN YOU'RE ABLE TO COME TO CHURCH AND EVERYTHING'S GOING RIGHT. HE'S NOT JUST GOD WHEN YOU GOT PLENTY OF MONEY IN YOUR POCKET, BUT HE'S AN OMNIPRESENT GOD. HE'S A PRESENT HELP IN A TIME OF TROUBLE. FRIEND OF MINE, I CAME WITH A WORD FROM GOD TO TELL YOU THE SAME WORDS THAT DAVID SAID. I BELIEVE THAT'S WHY HE WOULD TELL US, "IF I MAKE MY BED IN HELL, GOD, THOU ART THERE. IF I TAKE WINGS AND FLY IN THE HEAVENS, GOD, THOU ART THERE ALSO." DAVID REALIZED THERE'S NOWHERE I'LL EVER GO. THERE'S NOTHING I'LL EVER FACE. THERE'S NO BATTLE I'LL EVER WALK INTO THAT GOD WON'T BE THERE WITH ME. HE'S AN OMNIPRESENT GOD. HE'S WITH ME EVERYWHERE I GO. HALLELUJAH. I'M JUST HERE TO tell somebody today that's scared because of everything that's going on in our world right now. Baby, he's an omnipresent God. You may be even sitting in a hospital room just trying to find courage. Let me tell you, he's an omnipresent God. It doesn't matter how many deaths there are. I'm not trying to sound callous. Please, don't under I want you to understand what I'm saying. As the death toll rises, every hospital room, EVERY LOST FAMILY member that's being that's laying on a bed right now in a hospital, can I JUST TELL YOU THAT GOD IS THERE WITH THEM. YOU CAN TAKE COMFORT IN THIS. HE'S AN OMNIPRESENT GOD. HE'S WITH US WHEREVER WE GO. I BELIEVE I DON'T HAVE ANY BIBLE TO back it up, but it's good preaching anyway. It's the fact that this would be the reasoning that David would write one of his most famous Psalms. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. David again is paralleling God to what he knows better than anything else in the world. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and he leadeth me by the still waters. Can I tell you today that you're not going to find many green pastures up on top of a mountain. As a matter of fact, when you get up in the tall mountain, there's a place where greenery can't even grow. Trees can't even grow because it gets so high and the air is so thin. And David said, "You make me to lie down in green pastures." You know what David was saying? It's God, you're walking with me into it down into the valley. He said, "And you lead me by the still waters." You understand that when you're up on top of the mountain top, you can see a long way. And yeah, it feels good to have victory and shout around the front of the church on Sunday night and live on the mountain top, but David said, "You lead me by the still waters." You're not going to find any still waters up on top of the mountain, friend. They're way down in the deep, dark valleys. That's where the water begins to pool. And David said, "Lord, you make me to go there." Can I get you to understand today that that is the place that you find your substance and you find that God really is God in spite of what I'm going through. Don't don't hate the valley. The valley's making you a better apostolic Christian. The valley's making you who God wants you to be. THE VALLEY IS PULLING DESTINY OUT OF you that only the valley can pull out of you. CAN I TELL YOU TODAY? HE HE SAID, "YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL NOT FEAR, FOR THOU ART WITH ME." FRIEND OF MINE, DAVID IS AGAIN REASSURING US THAT EVEN DOWN IN THE DEEP, DARK VALLEY OF DEATH, WHEN IT'S ALL DARK AND DREARY AND DIM, GOD IS RIGHT THERE. GOD IS WALKING WITH

YOU. GOD'S GOT YOU BY THE HAND. DON'T YOU BE AFRAID. HE'S AN OMNIPRESENT GOD. CAN I TELL SOMEBODY TODAY that's walking through financial trouble that God's with you in your financial trouble. Can I tell somebody today that's sick in your body that God is with you in the sickness. Can I tell someone whose family is falling apart that God is with you in the family struggles. Can I tell someone that is fallen, who has sinned and the spirit of condemnation has set in and tell you you'll never BE ANYTHING. CAN I TELL YOU THAT RIGHT IN WHERE YOU ARE, GOD IS WITH YOU. EVEN THOUGH CONDEMNATION HAS ATTACKED YOUR EVERY THOUGHT, HE IS A GOD THAT WILL NEVER LEAVE US AND NEVER FORSAKE US. HE SAID, "I'LL BE YOUR FRIEND, THE FRIEND THAT'S STICKING CLOSER THAN ANY BROTHER. I'LL WALK WITH YOU. I'LL TALK WITH YOU. I'LL BE WITH YOU TILL THE END." I WOULDN'T WANT TO SERVE A GOD that would just leave me where he found me. I wouldn't want to serve a God that would show up only on good times. Thank God we have a savior that loves us and cares about us so much that when it gets bad and our family and friends turn away, he says, "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to walk with you through the MIDDLE OF THE TEST." AMEN. In 1 Samuel, I'm sorry, 1 Kings rather, chapter 20 and Pastor Smith, if you'll just read for me. 1 Sam- 1 Kings chapter 20 and verse 19. The writer begins to write and these are kind of the background has Ben-Hadad has yet again attacked Israel. It's kind of a saga that flows throughout the book of 1 and 2 Kings. As long as Ben-Hadad is around, he's attacking God's people. And this is what happens. Read for me, Pastor Smith. So, these young men of the princes of the provinces Yeah. came out of the city. -huh. And the army which followed them. Yeah. And they slew everyone his man. Slew everyone his man. And the Syrians fled and Israel pursued them. Yeah. And Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, escaped on an horse with the horsemen. Right. And the king of Israel went out and smote the horses and chariots and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. what's happening here? They're having good Sunday night church. Th- Th- This This is the mountain top experience kind of God. Yeah. The The Syrians have come out against them. The enemy has come against them and it doesn't matter what they do. They They couldn't lose if they wanted to. YEAH. THE THE GOD HAS GIVEN them victory and everyone is going out and slaying his own man and the Syrians are running away. The The adversary's got its tail TUCKED BECAUSE, MY GOD, THEY'RE HAVING SUNDAY NIGHT CHURCH. IT'S WILD APOSTOLIC meeting and the people are doing WHAT THEY WERE DESIGNED TO DO. THEY'RE WALKING IN THE AND AUTHORITY. YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE HERE, BUT GO AHEAD AND READ AND SEE WHAT ELSE HAPPENS. And the king of Israel went out Yeah. smote the horses and chariots -huh. and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. Yeah. And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said unto him, Yeah. "Go strengthen thyself Strengthen thyself. and mark Mark. and see what thou doest." See what Pay attention to what you're doing. You know what the man of God came to him and said? He said, "Hey, buddy, victory doesn't last always." Yeah. Now, I I know some of y'all are sitting on your couch right now thinking, "My God, what's this preacher trying to tell me that I'm going to have defeat?" I'm telling you that life happens. Yes, sir. I'm telling you that just because you're apostolic doesn't mean all of your problems disappear. I'm telling you just because you call Jesus Christ your Lord and savior, it doesn't mean that you're never going to have another test. And so, the man of God shows up and he says, "Hey, you better pay attention because next year about this time, the same problem's going to show up." Yeah. Yeah. We We get We get aggravated when we feel like we get the victory over something and then again, it turns around and we hear it is and we have to fight IT AGAIN AND FIGHT IT AGAIN AND FIGHT IT AGAIN. BUT LET ME JUST TELL YOU SOMETHING. THAT'S KEEPING YOU humble and that's keeping you praying and you better thank God when the Syrians return. You better thank God when the ENEMY COMES BACK AND CHECKS your spirit one more time because that's keeping you on your face and that's keeping you saved. Hallelujah. Read for me, Reverend. For at the return of the year Yeah. the king of Syria will come up against thee. He's coming back. And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, -huh. Their gods are gods of the hills. Now now now watch this. This is the

little imps talking to the big devil. Th- Th- These are the little things that are running around that think they're so big and bad that they can come up against God's people. And they said, "Their gods are the gods of the hills." Read. Therefore, they were stronger than we. than us because we fought them in the hills. YEAH. AND THE GODS THAT THEY SERVE, THEY'RE THE GODS THAT WORK FROM THE mountain top. He's the kind of God THAT'S JUST A GOD OF THE GOOD TIMES. YEAH. HE SAID, "SO THEREFORE, THEY WERE STRONGER than us because geographically where we fought them. YEAH. IT'S NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE BETTER. IT'S NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE ANOINTED. IT'S NOT BECAUSE of their worship, BUT IT'S JUST BECAUSE WE FOUGHT THEM WHILE THEY WERE IN CHURCH. YEAH. YEAH. NOW READ. But let us fight against them in the plain. But let me catch him on his job. And surely we shall be stronger than they. But let me get him out of the house of God. Yeah. L- Let a national pandemic take place and let them be shut up in their home and we'll see how long this takes place. We'll see how long they shout. WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH VICTORY THEY REALLY GOT. YEAH. So read. And do this thing, take the kings away. Yeah. Every man out of his place and put captains in their rooms. Right. And number the an army like the army that thou hast lost. Get you a number an army like you had before. Horse for horse Horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Chariot for chariot. will fight against them in the plain. Yeah. And surely we shall be stronger than they. We're going to catch them when they're not expecting it. Yeah. I can see the devil right now. He's in the board room of hell. Oh yeah, guys, we got them right where we want them now. They ain't been to the church in 3 weeks. They ain't been able to shout around and run around the church. They ain't been able to run the aisles and leap for joy. Now look at them. They're weak. They're in a They're in a place that they've never been before. They're They're They're fighting devils that they've never seen before. Now we going to get them now, but watch and see what happens. And he hearkened unto their voice and did so. Yeah. And it came to pass at the return of the year -huh. that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians and went up to to Aphek to fight against Israel. Yeah, the devil came back. And the children of Israel were numbered. Everybody was there. And were all present. They were all present. And went against them and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids. Two little flocks of kids, but what about the Syrians? But the Syrians filled the country. So we're outnumbered. Yeah. Who did There's more There's more against us than there are for us. But let me just tell you something today. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Yeah. Yeah. I- It doesn't matter how many demons are breathing down the back of your neck. It doesn't matter how many problems you got and how many situations are stacking up in the corner. You can be just like the children of Israel and just be numbered just a little two couple of flocks of kids and then ALL OF THE SUDDEN all of the enemy has surrounded you everywhere that you look. But can I tell you that right here and right now greater is he that is within thee than he that is within the world. WHO CAN FIGHT GOD AND WIN? PREACH THAT. YES. HALLELUJAH. I'm telling you right now. I don't care what's facing you. I know who's fighting on the winning side. IF I'VE GOT I FEEL THE HOLY GHOST RIGHT NOW. IF I'VE GOT GOD ON MY SIDE, THERE AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT. EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN. EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT BECAUSE I'M FIGHTING FROM THE WINNING SIDE. DEVIL, YOU SING EVERYTHING YOU GOT. SEND EVERY DEMON YOU GOT TO SEND BECAUSE I'M FIGHTING ON THE LORD'S SIDE. AND WATCH AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE. He said there was the the the Syrians filled the country. They were outnumbered. They were outgunned, but this is what happened. And there came a man OF GOD A MAN OF GOD. I'M STANDING right there in that place right now. And let me tell you the same thing that that man of God said. Read. He spake unto the king of Israel and said, Yeah. Thus saith the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills. Yeah, the devil thought that he that he was only God of Sunday night when you were able to go to church. The devil thought that he had you cornered, but thus saith the Lord, Though the enemy has said he's just the God of the mountain top experience, what's he going to do? But he is not the God of the valley. BUT HE'S NOT THE GOD OF THE VALLEYS. THEREFORE, will I deliver ALL THIS GREAT MULTITUDE THEREFORE, I WILL DEL- MY GOD, I FEEL SO MUCH HOLY GHOST RIGHT NOW. HE SAID, "THEREFORE, I WILL DELIVER. I WILL DELIVER. I WILL DELIVER. I I WANT YOU TO

GET THIS IN YOUR SPIRIT. I'M GOING TO DELIVER YOU. HOW? I DON'T KNOW HOW, BUT I KNOW GOD'S GOING TO DELIVER YOU. I'M OUTNUMBERED. I KNOW THAT, BUT I KNOW GOD'S GOING TO DELIVER YOU. I DON'T SEE HOW GOD'S GOING TO DO IT. I DON'T EITHER, BUT I KNOW GOD IS GOING TO MAKE A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WAY. THE DEVIL'S POSTING AND THE DEVIL'S BRAGGING AND HE SAID, "I GOT THEM WHERE THEY WANT WHERE I WANT THEM. THEIR GOD IS ONLY THE GOD OF THE MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE." BUT THE MAN OF GOD CAME AND HE SAID, "THEREFORE, I WILL DELIVER THIS GREAT MULTITUDE INTO THINE HAND. HOLD ON, SAINT OF GOD. VICTORY'S GOING TO BE PUT IN YOUR HAND BECAUSE YOU SERVE A GOD THAT'S NOT JUST GOD ON SUNDAY NIGHT, BUT HE'S GOD ON MONDAY. HE'S GOD ON TUESDAY. HE'S GOD IN COVID-19. HE'S GOD. HE'S GOD. HE'S GOD. AND THAT'S NEVER GOING TO CHANGE." WELL, PREACHER, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF life I've lived. I don't deserve God's mercy and grace. I don't deserve God to be with me. Let me just tell you who the king is here in this scripture. It's Ahab. The worst possible king that Israel's ever had. And God said, "Ahab, it's not because you deserve it because God knows you're a knucklehead. You ain't You can't do nothing right. You caused my people to go a-whoring after false gods. You built the temples on top of temples on top of temples to Baal and to Chemosh and Molech and all these other gods. Ahab, you don't deserve my grace. You don't deserve my mercy." Just like we don't. He said, "But Ahab, this ain't about This ain't about you. This is about what I've been hearing the devil say. And I can hear the enemy standing up around Dayton Apostolic Lighthouse and saying, "Hey, we're going to tear them down. We're going to send a national pandemic and it's going to shut down their city. It's going TO SHUT DOWN THEIR REVIVAL." BUT I HEAR THE VOICE OF THE LORD SAYING, "OH NO, IT'S NOT. I'M NOT JUST THE GOD OF THE MOUNTAINS, BUT I'M THE GOD OF THE VALLEY, TOO. I'M THE GOD WHEN EVERYBODY SAYS NO, I CAN STILL STEP IN AND SAY YES. I'M STILL GOD AND I'M STILL IN CONTROL. YOU CAN HOLD ON CUZ EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT." LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. Sometimes got to let you have a Job experience just to rub it in the devil's face and said, "I told you so, devil. You said that they were going to stop having revival. You said they were going to back up and bend and give in. But devil, I told you so. You said that they were going to bow their knee and they were going to quit pressing forward because of the fear in their world today. But I told you so, devil. Look at them. They're still going strong. THEY'RE STILL BAPTIZING IN MY NAME. They're still My God, I feel the Holy Ghost. They're still praying for people to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They're still reaching out to people. IT MIGHT NOT BE THE TRADITIONAL WAY. WE'RE NOT KNOCKING ON DOORS LIKE WE USED TO. WE'RE CALLING PEOPLE. WE'RE GETTING ON FACEBOOK, BUT THEY'RE STILL DOING IT AND THEY'RE STILL BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT HAVING REVIVAL. DEVIL, I TOLD YOU SO. DO YOU REALIZE THAT SOMETIMES GOD'S JUST USING YOU AS A WAY TO PROVE TO THE DEVIL YOU LOSE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. YOU LOST WHEN YOU WERE IN HEAVEN. YOU'RE LOSING WHILE YOU'RE ON THE EARTH AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A DAY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE BOUND FOR ETERNITY AND MY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WORSHIP ME BECAUSE I'M NOT JUST GOD WHEN EVERYTHING'S GOING RIGHT, BUT I'M THE OMNI-PRESENT GOD. I'M ALWAYS STRONG. I'M ALWAYS TRUE AND I'VE ALWAYS GOT POWER. AS THE MUSICIANS COME, LET me just tell you God's saving miraculous delivering power will never ever change. To say God is omnipresent in the sense that God is everywhere at the same time is not only cutting God's praise short, but it's cutting yourself short of knowing who he really is. The omnipresence of God doesn't just signify that he's everywhere at one time. But it signifies that God is in your past, God is in your present, and God is already in your future. As Jesus is teaching in the book of Matthew, Pastor Smith, he said, "Take no thought for tomorrow. For tomorrow will take thought for itself. Take no thought for what you shall eat or what you shall drink or

your raiment." And he goes on to tell me, he said, "You consider the lily. You consider the sparrow. You you you go down and you see all these things that I created. Let me just tell you something, friend. If God's got a he's the only creator that there is. If God's got to create a way, if he's got to make something up to get you deliverance, he's a creator. He can do it. There is nothing that's too hard for God. I know that you've got problems right now. Not only is God in your problem right now, but tomorrow, I'm just going to go ahead and tell you, just like the men of God showed up and said, "Hey, you number your army cuz tomorrow the next year the devil's coming back. He's going to try his best to take you out." Tell you the same thing. You're not always going to have so much victory that you feel like shouting in your living room and dancing around your kitchen. But I can tell you this, that God's already in that problem of tomorrow. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know when God's coming back. I don't I No man knoweth the day nor the hour. That's not up for me to know, Pastor Smith, but this one thing I do know, until the day that he calls his church home, God is going to be with his people. God is going to walk with us. God is going to fight for us. God is going to be with us every step of the way. I I I'm telling you, I know we're living in uncertain times, and there's people that are asking, "How in the world are we going to make it?" I I don't know. I don't KNOW. I DON'T HAVE ALL THOSE ANSWERS, but this one thing I know, he won't ever leave us, and he won't ever forsake us. And God's got this thing all figured out. And while I MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, GOD KNOWS WHAT to do. And while I might not know who to call, I know I can call on him. I I Thank God our government's doing the best they can. Our our health workers, God, we need to pray for them every day. And but I'm telling you, THEY DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS, BUT I KNOW WHO HAS THE ANSWERS. AND AS LONG as God is in control, he's going to work everything out, and everything's going to be okay. Everything Do you HEAR ME RIGHT NOW SAYING TO GOD, "EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT." NOBODY'S GOT THE ANSWERS. But he is the answer. It's an old song that used to sing that Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above him there's no other. Jesus is the way. So during this time of natural of this worldwide tragedy, we just need to take confidence in knowing that he's with us. Cuz he is an omnipresent God. I want to encourage you tonight to turn back in tune back in with us tomorrow night 7:00 But right now, I wish you would just get down by your couch, your recliner, your bed, whatever it is that you're standing beside, and you would lift your voice. And if the tears are flowing, let them flow. It's all right. You just tell him, "God, I I Here the listen. Here's the thing about God. He already knows anyway. And if you're afraid, it's all right. Just tell Jesus all about it. Cuz he knows, and he cares. He God really does. Can't it be wonderful to know, Pastor Smith, that we got a God that sees every sparrow that falls, but at the same time, he knows my name. He numbers the hair of my head. He knows how I feel. He knows exactly what I'm going through. And so while we're in this season of fear running through our world, you just need to take peace in knowing that God's in control, and God's with me in the middle of this. And I I I don't know. You might be on the verge of losing your job, and you're looking at your at all your bills that are continuing to come in. You're wondering, "How are we going to make it?" I don't know. I don't know. But I know this, God's with you where you're at. And somehow, someway, David said this, "I never seen the righteous forsaken." He didn't say they didn't have trials. He didn't say that they didn't have times that they were worried. There was a time in David's life where he didn't even have a sword. He had to run to the house of God just to find a weapon. But he said, "I never seen the righteous forsaken." You can hold on to this, friend. God is with you. As we begin to close this service, altar call, would you just lift your hands and your voice and begin to pray, "God,

I need you. Help me to put my trust in you. Help me to put my faith in you. Knowing you're the author and the finisher and that you got everything in control and you're with me, God. I feel alone, but I'm not alone. You're with me where I'm at." Come on, would you just begin to pray right now? Come on, pray. Pray. Pray. God's with you where you are. Come on, if you don't feel the Lord, you just reach down into your spirit, into your soul. "God, I need you to help me." And I promise you, his ear is not heavy that he cannot hear the cry of his people