* How can you know when you have really met with God, when you are truly in His presence?
* Two Ways:
* 1) When temptations decrease (“flee youthful lusts”).
* 2) When convictions increase.
* We’re going to focus on convictions.
* When you meet w/God you will become conscious of your own specific inadequacies in living up to the standard God has for your life.
* Isaiah had just met with God - he had a vision of the Lord.
* How did he respond?
* vs 5 - “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
* The minute he was in God's presence he experienced conviction.
* It wasn't just a general feeling of guilt, but a very specific conviction toward an aspect of his life that could quench the working of the Spirit in his life.
* KEY - God is specific with conviction, not generic.
* Generic guilt is from Satan.
* Specific guilt is from God.
* Isaiah’s strength - his calling - was to be a mouthpiece for God.
* But that was also his weakness.
* KEY - Your greatest weakness is often an overextension of your greatest strength.
* How can we come into the presence of the Lord?
* Surrender
* When you meet with God ask the question - "is there anything in my life that would hinder our relationship?”
* Humility
* See yourself through the grid of who God is an who you are in relation to Him.
* Obedience
* Trust and Obey - for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus!