The Echo Of Eternity

In His Presence

The Echo Of Eternity

Coming into the presence of God means different things to many people, but for me it is a sanctuary in time, an eternal creation which has no season, time, space nor echo of man's creation.

It is a presence with God beyond human civilization.  It is the splendor of the Eternal One.  The Sabbath means oneness with the Lord.  It is time in space that eternity utters a day.  The presence of a holiness that we can capture in time, where we can experience the essence of our Lord.

Sunday was one of those experiences at Westmoreland PHC in Wilson.  Never had I seen so many of us subdued by the Holy Spirit.  It began with a performance by Three For Thee, a sign language dance group.  In the play they acted out our worldly behavior using a laptop to connect to the world, yet still unfulfilled.  Then the cell phone, where they were talking and talking with still no fulfillment in our life. Then the pill bottles to ease the day's activities that leave us unable to sleep or find peace. 


Then we see the Holy Bible on the table beside our worldly toys and pick it up and life springs forth from the gospel of Jesus Christ, the new way!  All things are made new and suddenly all those earthly treasures become as trash to us, for we have found the lover of our souls. A presence that leaves us with unspeakable joy. The message was, return unto me and I will return unto you, with scripture from Zechariah 1-4.

The congregation began to worship during this production of songs that ushered  the Holy Spirit into our midst.  The Holy Spirit descended upon us, an unknown tongue was uttered with a message that our Bridegroom is coming for his bride, return unto him, do not delay.  We were captured in time as His voice pierced our souls.  In the end, many fell at the altar in humble reverence to our King and Savior.  

We didn't want to move from that moment in time, that holy presence that left us speechless and weeping, and yet sent a peace of unspeakable joy through our souls. There were no speeches, no altar call. There was no need, the altar call came from the Holy Spirit.  I had never seen Pastor Nelson so silent and just sitting in a bowed position, subdued in the Lord's presence. This was truly a remarkable Sabbath day.

The Sabbath is when we gather to acknowledge the sovereignty of God Almighty and our Savior that makes it possible to experience his presence united in one spirit.  Us in Him, and Him in us.  Where we can sense and see him manifest before us in a very real, tangible way.  

This presence is ushered in from entering into the House of the Lord with a heart of thanksgiving and tongues of praise.  We praise Him because we have received a Kingdom that can not be shaken.  We worship him with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

I will thank Him forever because He has done wonders in His creation and has called my name and brought me from darkness into His marvelous light, and changed me forever, and still on my journey transforming from Glory to Glory.

I praise him because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Look at yourself today in the mirror and see his wonderful work in you.  We are His glory and we know this full well.  Each of us were made by His hands and through His righteousness we are justified. and complete in Him.

Great is His name, and greatly to be praised!  He is to be revered because His name is the Name Above All Names. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

We are to take our everyday, ordinary life, our sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life, and place it before Him on His altar and live in His rest, that reflects His aroma on us and His image in us. He has blessed us in the heavenly realms and we are priests before Him.  For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be Holy and blameless in His sight.

That magnificent tent tabernacle was a glimpse into the eternal holiness of the Father that now resides in us through Christ Jesus.  We can see the outer court that is the place of washing, the place of prayer and kneeling and asking for our needs to be met, for him to make us whole.  It is the place of sacrificing our lives to Him, renewing and letting go of sin and the old ways of the flesh.  Here we approach Him with a humble and repentant heart.

In the Holy of Holies you come before Him with thanksgiving.  We thank Him for his atoning blood, we thank Him for the tests and trials he's put us through to make us Holy before Him.  We thank Him for His mercies, grace and guidance. It is incense to His nostrils.

The Holiest of Holies is that peaceful rest you enter into, and now you're really praising Him and the physical world around you becomes invisible as you experience that unspeakable joy and Holy Spirit flowing from you back onto Him as you glorify Him.  You're not asking for anything, you're just plain praising.  It may be in the form of a quiet subdued silence like we saw Sunday.  It may be dancing before Him, bowing to him in the altar, or lifting your arms and exalting him in His majesty with your tongue.

Oh Holy, Holy, Holy. Worthy is the Lamb of God.  Sometimes, I don't want to leave this presence, that experience of oneness with Him on His Holy day.  It is the closest to heaven you will get while here on earth and peace and anticipation comes over me as it gets closer to that appointed time each week.


To contact this dance group: three4thee@yahoo.com or to write Renee Moore at: Reflect.Jehovah.RJMinistries@yahoo.com  
Renee also has a blog at: www.reneesheart.blogspot.com


Westmoreland invites you to come and worship with them.  The Pastor is Rev. Jerry Nelson and the church is located at: 2425 Nash Street, Wilson, NC. 27896.  Worship service is Sunday at 10:30 a.m. 


This article was published in the Raleigh Examiner in the Wilson Christian Edition