{"id":11877,"date":"2024-09-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=11877"},"modified":"2016-08-09T23:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:59:49","slug":"how-jesus-ensure-presence-god-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/how-jesus-ensure-presence-god-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Jesus ensure the presence of God in His life?"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings to you in the name of Jesus Christ! I pray for the mercy and grace from the Lord to be multiplied in your life this day. May God\u2019s presence fill your life today like never before!\r\n\r\nWhen Jesus Christ was on this earth, He always sought God\u2019s presence, because He wanted to please His Father. This is what the Bible says about Him:\r\n<h6>\u00ab..how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him\u00bb\u00a0(Acts, 10:38)<\/h6>\r\nGod was with Jesus and that is why Jesus was anointed by God\u2019s Holy Spirit and power. Anointing and power follows the presence of the Holy Spirit. There will be no anointing and no power without His presence. For this reason the presence of God is crucial.\r\n\r\nHow did Jesus ensure the presence of God in His life? Why was God with Him? Was it because He was the Son of God? I don\u2019t think so. Don\u2019t forget that Jesus also was the Son of Man. He was born in flesh, was raised in a family, and grew physically, intellectually and spiritually.\r\n<h6>\u00abAnd Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men\u00bb\u00a0(Luke, 2:52).<\/h6>\r\nThe secret of God\u2019s presence in the life of Jesus is explained in many verses in the Bible. Let\u2019s look at some of them.\r\n<h6>\u00abYou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions\u00bb\u00a0(Hebrews, 1:9).<\/h6>\r\nHere we see that the source of His anointing was holiness and love for truth. Jesus sowed Himself into righteousness and reaped mercy. As we have already seen, holiness and godliness help us to draw near to God and ensure His presence in our life. Being effective in prayer requires from us a life of holiness.\r\n<h6>\u00abThen Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. (..) Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time. Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all\u00bb\u00a0(Luke, 4:1, 13-15).<\/h6>\r\nWe see in these passages that Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and then He went into wilderness to fast and pray and be alone with God for 40 days. The Bible also tells us how Jesus was filled with the Spirit before He started fasting.\r\n<h6>\u00abWhen all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, \u201eYou are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased\u201d\u00bb\u00a0(Luke, 3:21-22).<\/h6>\r\nJesus prayed and the Holy Spirit came upon Him.\r\n\r\nSo we see that God was with Jesus, God anointed Jesus with power not because He was the Son of God, but because Jesus did everything to draw near to God. It is an unchangeable principle for everyone who wants to walk in the presence of God and move in His power. Through prayer Jesus drew near to God and God drew near to Him. Jesus\u2019 prayers were effective and released God\u2019s presence because He added the elements of effectivenes to His prayer: holiness, love for truth and fasting. The influence of Jesus grew and His reputation spread all over the land; He was praised by the people because God was with Him. Jesus was able to help many people, healing them and delivering from the power of Satan, because God was with Him.\r\n\r\nYou can also walk in God\u2019s presence just like Jesus. In order for that to happen you need to do what Jesus did and then God will always be with you!\r\n\r\nTill tomorrow!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why was God with Him? Was it because He was the Son of God? I don\u2019t think so. Don\u2019t forget that Jesus also was the Son of Man. He was born in flesh, was raised in a family, and grew physically, intellectually and spiritually.\r\n\r\n\u00abAnd Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men\u00bb (Luke, 2:52).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/depositphotos_89560512-stock-photo-father-and-son-walking-together-e1664726344849.webp",600,400,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":2,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38743,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions\/38743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}