Latest / DA CREW Podcast / DAY 10 — ASSURANCE OF HIS PRESENCE Key “Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10Affirmation: I am assured of God’s presence.
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Good morning, y'all, Good morning, good morning, good morning, and
- 0:10Speaker 1: welcome to day ten. Y'all. We are day ten on
- 0:14Speaker 1: this twenty one day journey. Day ten on this twenty
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- 0:51Speaker 1: some friends that may be in need of a word
- 0:55Speaker 1: of encouragement. On today, y'all, we are day ten on
- 0:59Speaker 1: this journey. And side of God is my refuge and
- 1:03Speaker 1: my present help. It is a devotion that I created
- 1:07Speaker 1: to go along with our reading. Every day as you
- 1:10Speaker 1: read the Bible, you can apply some of this word
- 1:14Speaker 1: to you give your opportunity to dive a little deeper
- 1:17Speaker 1: in the word that you are reading. It's not to
- 1:20Speaker 1: take the place of the Bible. It's just to supplement
- 1:23Speaker 1: the Bible, because this book does not touch on as
- 1:28Speaker 1: much as it's in the Bible. But it just helps
- 1:31Speaker 1: pull out some things and it gives you a twenty
- 1:34Speaker 1: one day of reflection, a twenty one day of diving
- 1:37Speaker 1: deep and getting the better understanding of what we read,
- 1:41Speaker 1: because sometimes we go through and we read the Bible.
- 1:44Speaker 1: With me, I read the Bible over and over and
- 1:47Speaker 1: over again, but every time I pick it up, I
- 1:49Speaker 1: can get a deeper revelation. I can get something that
- 1:51Speaker 1: is clear clearer to me as I grow on my
- 1:56Speaker 1: spiritual journey and on my spiritual walk. Y'all, today's lesson
- 1:59Speaker 1: is gonna be titled the Assurance of His Presence, The
- 2:04Speaker 1: Assurance of His Presence. So y'all, if y'all will go
- 2:08Speaker 1: ahead and share it out, share it out, I'm gonna
- 2:10Speaker 1: go in to pray. I'm gonna pray before I get
- 2:13Speaker 1: started on this lesson on this morning. Gonna send up
- 2:16Speaker 1: a quick prayer, Father God, in the name of Jesus Lord,
- 2:19Speaker 1: I thank you for the space. I thank you for
- 2:20Speaker 1: yet another opportunity that we can come before you r God,
- 2:23Speaker 1: share your goodness, to share your word so that that
- 2:27Speaker 1: person that may not know you will come to know you.
- 2:29Speaker 1: On today, I thank you for this space. I thank
- 2:31Speaker 1: you for this time. I thank you for just being
- 2:34Speaker 1: an outlet, being a vessel that can be used by you,
- 2:36Speaker 1: that you may be glorified in all that I do. Father,
- 2:39Speaker 1: I asked that you remove me out of the flesh
- 2:41Speaker 1: and increase your spirit main in me that I may
- 2:43Speaker 1: be able to deliver this message that you will have
- 2:45Speaker 1: me to deliver on today, Lord God, that that will
- 2:48Speaker 1: help your people. Lord God, Father, I thank you because
- 2:51Speaker 1: your word tells us that many are called, only a
- 2:53Speaker 1: few will answer, Lord God, and Father, I thank you
- 2:55Speaker 1: for the few that stand up, the few that answer,
- 2:57Speaker 1: the few that are willing to go and spread your
- 3:00Speaker 1: gospel with willing to spread your goodness and the things
- 3:03Speaker 1: that you have done. Father, I thank you for your
- 3:05Speaker 1: son Jesus, that you sent to walk upon this earth
- 3:07Speaker 1: to die for us so that we would have the
- 3:09Speaker 1: right to eternal life. So Father, I thank you on
- 3:12Speaker 1: this morning, and Father, I asked that the words that
- 3:15Speaker 1: you have allowed me to be able to share on today,
- 3:18Speaker 1: Lord God, I hope that they fall on fertile soil
- 3:21Speaker 1: that they may produce fruit. Lord God, that each seed
- 3:24Speaker 1: that come out of this lesson on today will be
- 3:27Speaker 1: able to produce some fruit to the person that receives
- 3:30Speaker 1: it the person that sows it in fertile ground. I
- 3:33Speaker 1: thank you on this morning, Lord God and Father. I
- 3:36Speaker 1: yield to your Holy Spirit to lead God and direct
- 3:39Speaker 1: me on today. And these things are asking your Son
- 3:41Speaker 1: Jesus name a man a man, a man, a man,
- 3:44Speaker 1: a man a man. Again, I thank you guys for
- 3:47Speaker 1: joining me and those that have been joining me on
- 3:51Speaker 1: this last nine day journey. Y'all, we're on a twenty
- 3:56Speaker 1: one day journey to being in His presence. This week's
- 4:02Speaker 1: lesson is a quiet assurance knowing that even in the
- 4:07Speaker 1: midst of quietness, God is yet moving, He's yet doing
- 4:10Speaker 1: what he said he would do concerning each and every
- 4:13Speaker 1: one of us. So again, I thank you guys for
- 4:15Speaker 1: joining me. I thank you for being a part of
- 4:18Speaker 1: this daily devotion. Y'all. We have been doing it now
- 4:22Speaker 1: since the end of March, so we are now what April, May, June, July,
- 4:28Speaker 1: we are now five months in to doing a daily devotion.
- 4:32Speaker 1: So I thank God for this space and y'all. I'm
- 4:34Speaker 1: gonna continue to do it until he tell me something different.
- 4:38Speaker 1: We may be switching platforms. If TikTok is shut down
- 4:42Speaker 1: September the first, we may be switching platforms. Wherever I go,
- 4:46Speaker 1: I will let you know so that you can come
- 4:48Speaker 1: and be a part of what we're doing, because y'all,
- 4:51Speaker 1: we need this, regardless of what we think we're doing
- 4:55Speaker 1: on our own. We need the Holy Spirit. We need God.
- 5:00Speaker 1: He's the one that created us. We didn't get magically
- 5:02Speaker 1: dropped out of the sky. He created us in his image,
- 5:06Speaker 1: and He fearfully and wonderfully created us, y'all. So I'm
- 5:11Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and get started with this lesson on today.
- 5:15Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and get started with this lesson
- 5:17Speaker 1: on today. All those that keep spamming my comments, I'm
- 5:21Speaker 1: not interested in purchasing any followers, none of that. So
- 5:26Speaker 1: please stop spamming my comments if you don't mind, If
- 5:31Speaker 1: you're not here to hear the word, please stop coming
- 5:35Speaker 1: and stop spamming the chat. If you don't mind, I
- 5:40Speaker 1: truly appreciate it. Thank you. So, y'all, we are day ten,
- 5:44Speaker 1: and again the title is assurance of His presence. Our
- 5:48Speaker 1: scripture is coming from Psalms forty six and ten, and
- 5:51Speaker 1: this is the King James version. It said, be still
- 5:55Speaker 1: and know that I am God. Be still and know
- 5:59Speaker 1: that I am. Our affirmation for today is I am
- 6:03Speaker 1: assured of God's presence in my life. If you're listening
- 6:08Speaker 1: to this, if you woke up this morning, know that
- 6:10Speaker 1: you didn't breathe that breath into your own self. That
- 6:13Speaker 1: He breathed that breath of life into you. He extended
- 6:16Speaker 1: his grace and his mercy so that you could see
- 6:18Speaker 1: this day. Somebody didn't get to see this day. I
- 6:22Speaker 1: just want you to understand that that you are blessed
- 6:25Speaker 1: in hoighly favored because you and yet on this side, y'all,
- 6:29Speaker 1: when stillness become the strength noise, it's easy to find.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Quiet is rarely given. Yet the deepest strength often comes
- 6:37Speaker 1: not from one's strategy, but from one's stillness. Still still,
- 6:43Speaker 1: stealing our hands, uncleansing our hearts, and letting God be God.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Psalms Forty six and ten is not merely a common phrase.
- 6:53Speaker 1: It is a command in a comfort to cease striving,
- 6:58Speaker 1: release control, and recognize the one who holds earth steady
- 7:03Speaker 1: in your life. Secure y'all. Assurance is not the absence
- 7:08Speaker 1: of storms. It is the certainty of a present that
- 7:12Speaker 1: does not leave you, leave you when storms arrive. He
- 7:17Speaker 1: don't never leave us. He's always with us, y'all. He
- 7:20Speaker 1: said that he would never leave us, nor forsake us.
- 7:27Speaker 1: So know that he is yet moving on our behalf.
- 7:30Speaker 1: He is yet in the midst of all that we
- 7:33Speaker 1: are doing, y'all. I've seen a little critical don't know
- 7:38Speaker 1: where it come from, but y'all, I am I'm sorry, y'all,
- 7:44Speaker 1: that was a little crawley crawley. I don't know what
- 7:46Speaker 1: it was, but it looked like it looked like a
- 7:49Speaker 1: spider and it looked like a little I'm sorry, but
- 7:55Speaker 1: it looked like a little what's the name. And I
- 7:58Speaker 1: know Mash, and Mash did not want to die, but
- 8:01Speaker 1: it has to die. It's still over here, moving around,
- 8:07Speaker 1: and I'm talking about I know mash it and mashed it.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Don't know what kind of little critter that is, y'all,
- 8:12Speaker 1: but it looked like a little scorpion. It looked like
- 8:15Speaker 1: a little scorpion. But I had I'm sorry, y'all that
- 8:20Speaker 1: I have to excuse me, but I had to. I
- 8:23Speaker 1: had to take care of that. I don't know what
- 8:25Speaker 1: it was, but I had to take care that. Y'all
- 8:27Speaker 1: are excuse me for that, excuse me to that. I apologize, y'all,
- 8:34Speaker 1: I truly, truly apologize. I apologize this more than y'all
- 8:38Speaker 1: just charged charge it to my mind and not my heart.
- 8:43Speaker 1: But it was something creepy grawley crawling around. It looked
- 8:47Speaker 1: like a scorpion. But it's not a scorpion, because y'all.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Of course, I am in South Carolina, so we don't
- 8:55Speaker 1: I don't think we have them here. But nevertheless, it
- 8:59Speaker 1: is now disposed us and I will finished disposing of
- 9:04Speaker 1: it once this live is over. So again I apologize, y'all.
- 9:07Speaker 1: I apologize. So and that's how the enemy comes, y'all.
- 9:11Speaker 1: The enemy comes just like that to distract you. And
- 9:14Speaker 1: those noise and those things come just like that to
- 9:16Speaker 1: distract you. But we have to be assured in God's presence,
- 9:23Speaker 1: be assured in his presence, so understanding that his presence
- 9:31Speaker 1: does not leave us when storms come. So a little
- 9:34Speaker 1: backstory on songs forty six and ten. Songs forty six
- 9:40Speaker 1: in the Chaos Psalms forty six was composed by the
- 9:45Speaker 1: sons of Koro during a time when the nation raged
- 9:49Speaker 1: and the mountains seemed to move. Language that mirror siege
- 9:54Speaker 1: in national crisis. The Psalms frames God as as our
- 10:00Speaker 1: refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble, and
- 10:05Speaker 1: that setting God's voice cuts through the uproar. Be still
- 10:11Speaker 1: and know that I Am God. In Hebrew, be still
- 10:15Speaker 1: Raha carries the sense of letting go, sink down, relax
- 10:20Speaker 1: your grill. No, Yadah is not head knowledge alone. It
- 10:27Speaker 1: is the relational, experimental knowing. This verse invites us to
- 10:35Speaker 1: loosen our grasp and tighten our trust, to move from
- 10:39Speaker 1: panic to presence. And that's His presence, being in the
- 10:45Speaker 1: midst of his presence. So y'all, the word of today
- 10:49Speaker 1: is Emmanuel, and that spelled I Am M A U
- 10:55Speaker 1: e L. The word of today is Emmanual. What that
- 10:59Speaker 1: means God with us Assurance is not simply that God exists,
- 11:06Speaker 1: It is that He is with us, near a tentative
- 11:12Speaker 1: and actively involved. The Bible story that speaks to this
- 11:17Speaker 1: lesson is Elijah. When Elijah meets God in the Whisper
- 11:21Speaker 1: That's over in Verse Kings nineteen, verses one through eighteen.
- 11:26Speaker 1: It says. After a dramatic victory on Mount Carmel, Elijah
- 11:30Speaker 1: is threatened by Jezebel and flees. Exhausted and afraid. He
- 11:35Speaker 1: collapses under a juniper tree, ready to give up. God
- 11:39Speaker 1: does not scold him. He sends an angel with food
- 11:43Speaker 1: and rest, strengthening Elijah to travel to Hurrah and Sinai
- 11:48Speaker 1: in Sinna and hides in a cave. Then comes the
- 11:54Speaker 1: wind that shudders, rocks, and earthquake and fire. But the
- 12:00Speaker 1: Lord was not in any of those. After the fire,
- 12:04Speaker 1: a still, small voice, a gentle whisper, and a quiet
- 12:08Speaker 1: God presence met Elijah, asking honest questions, gives fresh instruction
- 12:15Speaker 1: and remind him he's not alone. Assurance came not only
- 12:19Speaker 1: in the spectacular, but in the stillness. The same God
- 12:26Speaker 1: who shook Sinai chose to whisper, to steady his profit.
- 12:33Speaker 1: What can you take away from this this story in
- 12:36Speaker 1: the Bible? What can you take away from that stillness
- 12:39Speaker 1: is to surrender, not passivate, but to surrender. What be
- 12:47Speaker 1: still really means Hebrew Rahah loosens, relax, let go, it's
- 12:54Speaker 1: uncleaning your will so God can reveal his No yet
- 12:59Speaker 1: Ah rationalize, experimental knowing, not note information about God, but
- 13:07Speaker 1: communion with him, communing with him. What does surrender mean?
- 13:14Speaker 1: What is surrender and is not not passively denial of fatalism.
- 13:22Speaker 1: But the scripture never caused us to laziness. It is
- 13:27Speaker 1: constant that God's rule then obedient actions at his peace.
- 13:34Speaker 1: You release outcome while embracing the assignment. Get up, do something.
- 13:39Speaker 1: He's given you task. He's given you things that you're
- 13:42Speaker 1: supposed to be doing. He didn't tell us to be lazy.
- 13:45Speaker 1: He told us to work. He said, a man that
- 13:48Speaker 1: does not work does not eat. Biblical patterns. If you
- 13:52Speaker 1: go over to Exodus fourteen thirteen and fourteen, it says,
- 13:56Speaker 1: stand for the Lord will fight for you. You need only
- 14:01Speaker 1: to be still. Israel stopped panicking, They walked. When the
- 14:07Speaker 1: sea opened up, they surrendered and proceeded, and proceeded. If
- 14:13Speaker 1: you go over to Second Chronicles twenty fifteen to twenty two,
- 14:16Speaker 1: it says the battle is not yours but gods. They
- 14:20Speaker 1: didn't hide. They marched into worship and surrendered. Change their strategy.
- 14:27Speaker 1: When you surrender to God, he'll change your status. He'll
- 14:31Speaker 1: change your strategy. He will show you what to do.
- 14:36Speaker 1: He'll lead you. He'll guide you, he'll direct you, and
- 14:39Speaker 1: he'll show you how to move. You got in order
- 14:44Speaker 1: in order to if you go over to Looten eighteen
- 14:47Speaker 1: forty two, it said Mary stillness at Jesus feet, set
- 14:51Speaker 1: her service and order, receiving first, then served from the overflow.
- 15:00Speaker 1: You have to humble yourself. You gotta know that you
- 15:05Speaker 1: are striving. You are trying to do the things that
- 15:11Speaker 1: He's called you to. So don't hurry, don't be compulsive
- 15:16Speaker 1: to fixing things. And you got us stay in prayer,
- 15:20Speaker 1: don't be anxious about anything. Are you yoked in Christ?
- 15:27Speaker 1: If you're not, find time to spend time with him
- 15:31Speaker 1: so that he can lead God and direct you. And
- 15:34Speaker 1: then if you've been following along with us, y'all we've
- 15:37Speaker 1: been focused on Proverbs three, five and six. Put your
- 15:40Speaker 1: trust in him, and not trust in your own knowledge,
- 15:44Speaker 1: but trust in Him with all your heart, and he
- 15:47Speaker 1: will direct your path. You gotta practice and learn how
- 15:54Speaker 1: to surrender. Psalms down, psalms up as the certain with
- 16:02Speaker 1: psalms down release it, palms up ASTs what is the
- 16:08Speaker 1: next faithful step? Do? Only that asks him what am
- 16:14Speaker 1: I supposed to do? What is it that you've called
- 16:17Speaker 1: me to do on today. Pray and ask him to
- 16:20Speaker 1: lead God and direct you so that when you go
- 16:23Speaker 1: out you can do his thing. You gotta understand that
- 16:27Speaker 1: his president is constant, He's always with you, so that
- 16:29Speaker 1: you can call on him all throughout the day no
- 16:32Speaker 1: matter what you're going through. Know that you can call
- 16:35Speaker 1: on him. Trust him and know that he's yet moving.
- 16:42Speaker 1: And you have to understand that he is. I'm not present.
- 16:46Speaker 1: You can't outrun him, you can't outrun his reach. And
- 16:50Speaker 1: he's always there in dwelling in the spirit. He is
- 16:53Speaker 1: our helper to abide. He's gonna protect us. He's left
- 16:57Speaker 1: the comforter to comfort us. All we got to do
- 17:00Speaker 1: is be obedient to his word. Be obedient to his word.
- 17:10Speaker 1: So how can we apply what we have learned today?
- 17:18Speaker 1: Take five minutes to practice holy stillness. Sit quietly, breathe in,
- 17:27Speaker 1: be still, breathe out, and know that I Am God,
- 17:32Speaker 1: and repeat it for five minutes. Get that scripture and
- 17:36Speaker 1: ache it in your spirit. Repeat it over and over
- 17:39Speaker 1: and over and the quietness, and have confidence that you shall.
- 17:46Speaker 1: He will be your strength and you shall do what
- 17:49Speaker 1: he asks you to do. Not only that name, it
- 17:53Speaker 1: and release it. Write what you are gripping with. If
- 17:56Speaker 1: you are having fears, if you having hard time making decase,
- 18:00Speaker 1: if you having a hard time keeping with time, timeline,
- 18:04Speaker 1: pray and acts him to release you from those things.
- 18:07Speaker 1: You got to physically open your hands in your mouth,
- 18:13Speaker 1: he says in one Peter five and seven, casting all
- 18:17Speaker 1: your cares upon him, for he cares for you. So
- 18:21Speaker 1: you got to give it to him. Give it to
- 18:25Speaker 1: him on today, y'all. So I'm getting ready to wrap
- 18:33Speaker 1: it up, getting ready to wrap it up. I pray
- 18:36Speaker 1: that you guys have been blessed by something that I've
- 18:39Speaker 1: shared on today. Understand that assurance is not found by
- 18:47Speaker 1: fixing every problem, but by fixing our gaze on the
- 18:51Speaker 1: God who is with us. Be still and know. Let
- 18:56Speaker 1: go and lean in that whisper that met Elijah is
- 19:02Speaker 1: the presence that meets you today. Know that what he
- 19:08Speaker 1: did for Elijah and everyone in that Bible, he's ready
- 19:12Speaker 1: to do it for you too. Because he has no
- 19:14Speaker 1: respectable person. I say to you today, speak this over
- 19:19Speaker 1: your life. I am assured of God's presence in my life.
- 19:25Speaker 1: We have been coming from this devotion. It is God
- 19:33Speaker 1: is my present help and God is my refuge in
- 19:37Speaker 1: my present health. I'm gonna share this poem and then
- 19:40Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on out of here. I hope you
- 19:42Speaker 1: guys have a great day. So the poem for the
- 19:44Speaker 1: day is in the quiet hearts are known. Assurance is
- 19:50Speaker 1: gentle sway through the life. We're never alone in stillness.
- 19:56Speaker 1: He will stay In the quiet hearts are known assurance
- 20:02Speaker 1: in his gentle sway through life, we are never alone
- 20:07Speaker 1: in stillness. He will stay, and that's that peace. I
- 20:13Speaker 1: hope that there has been something that you guys have
- 20:16Speaker 1: been blessed by on today. I hope that you will
- 20:19Speaker 1: join me back here tomorrow, day eleven. Anchored in His truth.
- 20:24Speaker 1: We will root our minds, in our choices in the
- 20:28Speaker 1: unshakable word that is steady in Jesus Christ, our Lord
- 20:33Speaker 1: and Savior, as He steady our footsteps, and God direct
- 20:38Speaker 1: us and lead us so that we may catch up
- 20:41Speaker 1: with our destiny. I pray that everyone is blessed on today,
- 20:45Speaker 1: and I pray that something that I've shared will be
- 20:48Speaker 1: a blessing to you guys. Again, if you would like
- 20:50Speaker 1: to get any one of these devotions that I have
- 20:53Speaker 1: been sharing over the last five months, they are available
- 20:56Speaker 1: on my website, which is www. Angela smith Books dot com. Again,
- 21:03Speaker 1: that's www. Angela Thomas Smith books dot com. And there's
- 21:11Speaker 1: so many different If you don't want to get this devotion,
- 21:13Speaker 1: there's other devotions. There's other poetry books, there's other different
- 21:18Speaker 1: types of books that I just want people to know
- 21:23Speaker 1: that they're not on this journey alone. You get to
- 21:26Speaker 1: hear bits and pieces about my journey, what I have endured,
- 21:32Speaker 1: the things that I have encountered on this mission. I'm
- 21:35Speaker 1: not a theologian. I hold no office. I just share
- 21:39Speaker 1: from my experience and the things that I have endured,
- 21:42Speaker 1: the things that I have went through, the things that
- 21:44Speaker 1: He has delivered me through. See when we share his goodness,
- 21:48Speaker 1: that's how I want to do, is be a vestible
- 21:50Speaker 1: share his goodness because I know what He's done for me,
- 21:53Speaker 1: and I know that I have no power, but through
- 21:55Speaker 1: him I have all power. So I'm just grateful to
- 21:58Speaker 1: be able to be in the myths. So again I
- 22:02Speaker 1: say thank you guys for tuning in. I pray that
- 22:04Speaker 1: your day is blessed beyond what you can see in
- 22:07Speaker 1: the natural and I hope to see you back here
- 22:09Speaker 1: on tomorrow. Y'all, have a great day. Love y'all,