Aug 26, 2019
What You'll Hear:
- Robert grew up in Elizabethtown, TN in a Christian environment. He doesn't remember a time when he wasn't trusting Jesus as his savior. When he was 11-12 yr old, an evangelist challenged him to make sure, so he prayed that night and gained assurance of his salvation
- His teen years were pretty lonely and confused.
- Robert knew God wanted him to go to Columbia International University. When he got there his new roommate Bill McCoy showed up and he was full of excitement about Jesus, which compared to Robert's confusion about Jesus.
- Bill challenged Robert to totally yield himself to Christ, so Robert knelt down and yielded his life to Christ. This was the single most life changing moment of his life.
- Robert and Bill have since stayed friends for 45 years
- One of the greatest evangelistic tools available is our hope. It helps when we have a consistent walk with God
- There should be something about our demeanor that sets us apart from others
- "As in a friendship or a marriage, we’re either drawing nearer to God or drifting from Him all the time" - this is also true with our relationships at work. We're either going forward and or going backward.
- Fear and worry tighten you up. Faith relaxes you. Practice the presence of God all day long. You have to cultivate it and work on it. Begin every day with prayer and Bible study. Write out your agenda for the day and commit it to the Lord.
- "I feel that God has assigned our work to us in one day increments"
- From James, we see that being close to God includes resisting the devil.
- God has 2 addresses, pervasive and personal. From Isaiah we see that God lives in the highest realms of heaven and the humblest parts of earth.
- Sophie Lichtenfels as a maid and Brother Lawrence as a worker in the kitchen were great examples of Colossians 3 and being close to God while they worked. Wherever we work is holy ground because of God's presence.
- The Practice of the Presence of God was written by Brother Lawrence and was an inspiration for Robert's book
- God’s order is Facts, Faith, Feelings. Your feelings is not a determination of God's nearness in our life. "Our feelings come and go, our attitudes come and grow"
- You can remember God's order with a train. The locomotive is facts. The passenger car is faith. The caboose is your feelings.
- God being near can be in terms of His presence as well as time. See Philippians 4 and 2 Peter 3.
- "We're not citizens in this world on our way to heaven, we're citizens of heaven going through this world"
- Go to www.RobertJMorgan.com
- Nothing has helped Robert to practice the presence of God more than to memorize scripture