Saturday, November 1st
Apostle Geoffrey Okeny
“When they suffered, he suffered with them. The angel of his presence saved them. Out of his enduring love and compassion he redeemed them. He lifted them up, carried them in his arms, and cared for them all the days of old. But they rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit. Only then did he turn against them. He became their enemy and fought against them.” Isaiah 63:9-10 TPT
Whenever you read or study the Word of God, pay close attention to every verse that mentions the Angel of His Presence. The word “Angel” is translated from the Hebrew word Malak, which also means messenger, ambassador, or angel. The Angel that transports His presence is a description that cannot be traced to any angelic being but refers to the person of the Lord Holy Spirit.
This verse speaks about the person of the Holy Spirit, who is the third person of the Godhead. He is not ranked third but is co-equal with the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the third person of the Godhead whose office was manifest third and last when the Lord Jesus was glorified, as noted in John 7:39 (AMPC): “But He was speaking here of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive afterward. For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified (raised to honour).” You can see that the Holy Spirit took office after the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven.
When you were born again and confessed the Lordship of Jesus Christ over your life, who gave you the assurance that you are truly born again and now a child of God? It was the Lord Holy Spirit. Romans 8:16 (TPT) says, “For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as he whispers into our innermost being, ‘You are God’s beloved child!” The Angel or messenger of His divine presence is the Lord Holy Spirit, who conveys the divine presence of the Father to every child of God and from place to place around the world. Through His special ministry, He makes God and His Word real to us.
Declare this rhema out loud: I am born of the Holy Spirit; I have His DNA, and I am His very own child. I am an associate of the God-kind, with the very life and nature of my Father the Holy Spirit. The Lord Holy Spirit is in me now, and I am full of divine presence. When you confessed the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the Lord Holy Spirit came into you. You don’t need to feel His presence to know He’s in you; you know Him through the Word of God.
Many of God’s children struggle because they’ve been trained and raised to relate with and know their Father God through their senses. However, a Christian knows God through the Word of God and by their spirit, not through their five senses. Glory to God. Hallelujah!
CONFESSION
Thank you, dear Lord Holy Spirit, for your special ministry in my life. I affirm that you are my Father who dwells in me and you are working in me both to will and to do of your good pleasure. Blessed be your Holy Name.
DEEPER REFLECTION
“In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.”Isaiah 63:9 (AMPC)
“The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.”Romans 8:16 (AMPC)
Exodus 23:20–23 (KJV) “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.”
Exodus 33:14–15 (KJV) “And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.”
Deuteronomy 1:31 (KJV) “And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.”
Deuteronomy 32:10–12 (KJV) “He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.”
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