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His Presence Abiding!! 2006/01 01/08/06 Happy New Year!! From the Lord and from Alma and I. What a year and what a year we have coming up if all the prophetic is correctly heard. There is a word that I recently read in one of Timothy Snodgrass’s E-Letters and I quote; “As we prepare to go into the New Year, I hear the Holy Spirit saying that it is time to seek the Presence of God with haste. It was not by accident that the three wise men brought the child Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh during His first coming, because it would be one of the final signs to ‘wise’ men of the last generation that His second coming is quickly approaching. Judgments will increase, but it is not a time to focus on the world that is quickly passing away, but to focus on entering into the presence of God, and hiding ourselves in our prayer chamber for a season to seek wisdom and strategies for the coming year, for our time is short, and the coming of our King draws nigh”. We will have a lot to share on this year, and I know only that it will be vital information to catch hold of, but don’t ask me at this moment what all of it might be, because I too, would love to know ahead of time, but I do know that there is a bundle out there to pick up. I believe that our starting point for the beginning of the year would be to concentrate on our “Presence” condition. I know that I hear the Lord speaking that we are to practice His Presence like we never have before, with an emphasis on abiding there with new, aggressive pursuit. There is much power and witness in His Presence abiding and I would not even expect to start with the verse that I now read but that is where I am told we need to go. Turn to John 17:15-23; “I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep them and protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), [just] as I am not of the world. Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, mak