Honouring God’s Presence  2 Samuel 6:5-11 

From the beginning of time, our God has always wanted to be with His people. In the Garden of Eden, He walked with Adam in the cool of the day. In the wilderness, He dwelled among Israel in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. In the temple, His glory filled the Holy of Holies. 

What the Ark represented in the Old Testament, Christ Jesus is to us in the New He is Emmanuel — God with us! And through the power of the Holy Spirit, He is God in us! 

When we learn to honour His presence, to host His glory we will see His blessing, His power and His transformation in every part of our lives. 

1.The Presence of God Is Holy  

In 2 Samuel 6, David was bringing the Ark back to Jerusalem. The Ark represented the throne, the covenant and the glory of God. But along the way, Uzzah reached out and touched the Ark and he died. Why? Because God’s presence is holy. 

We live in a time where people have become too casual with the presence of God. But let me remind you He is still the same holy God. Hebrews 12:28 –29 says: ‘Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.’ 

When we consciously become aware of His presence, it’s not time to scroll, chat or spectate it’s time to bow. To listen, To yield. Because the King of Glory is in the room! 

Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up and cried, ‘Woe is me!’ John saw Him in Revelation and fell at His feet as though dead. When God shows up, everything unclean has to bow down. 

Holiness attracts His presence but pride repels it. 

The presence of God is not a stage performance, it’s sacred ground. That’s why Moses took off his shoes in front of the burning bush because God said, “The place where you stand is holy ground.” 

If we want His presence to dwell with us, we must honour His holiness. Purity prepares the way for His glory! 

2. The Presence of God Brings Blessing  

Look again at v.11: And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household. 

When the presence of God came in, everything changed!  Peace replaced confusion. Prosperity replaced lack. Healing came to the sick. Joy came to the sorrowful. 

That’s what happens when you make room for the presence of God He blesses everything connected to you! 

Psalm 16:11 says: You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 

The blessings aren’t in the music or the preacher they’re in His presence. Too many people chase blessings but forget the Blesser. If you chase His presence, blessings will chase you! 

Jesus said in John 14:23 “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.  When you honour Jesus, He makes your heart His home. He doesn’t just visit on Sunday He dwells with you daily! 

When you host His presence, He will do in moments what your efforts couldn’t do in years! 

3. Jesus, the Living Ark of God’s Presence  

In the Old Testament, the presence of God was carried in the Ark a box of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with cherubim on top and the mercy seat in between. 

But in the New Testament, the presence of God took on flesh and walked among us. John 1:14 says: ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.’  

Jesus is the living Ark of God’s presence. In Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form Colossians 2:9. He carried the glory. He revealed the Father. And now, through the Holy Spirit, He lives in us!** 

John 14:16 –17 says: And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 

Conclusion 

That means the same presence that blessed Obed-Edom now lives inside you! You don’t have to wait for the Ark to come down the street you carry the presence of Jesus everywhere you go! 

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:19 : Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 

When you lift your hands in worship, Heaven meets earth because His glory flows through you. 

That’s why the enemy fights to distract you, to discourage you, to defile you — because if he can silence a carrier of the presence, he can stop revival! 

You are not empty vessels, you are carriers of the presence of God. 

When you honour His presence, when you keep your heart pure and your spirit open, God can move through you to heal, to deliver and to set captives free!