God's Presence

We're all as close to God as we want to be.

Jesus promised that if we seek Him, we'll find Him.

• How much of our time and energy is spent seeking the Lord?
• How much time do we spend seeking other things?

When we answer these questions truthfully, it helps us to see where our hearts really are.

Jesus promised that when we seek Him and His Kingdom, everything else will be added to us.

Our lives work better when we put Jesus first.

Getting closer to God is the most important thing we can do.

When we were born again we became part of the new creation. We don't just have fellowship with God, we've become His dwelling place. God doesn't just walk with us, as He did with Adam, He lives in us.

Christ is being formed in us.

• We're called to be like Jesus and do the works He did
• We're called to have intimate fellowship with our Father

The more we fellowship with Him, the more we become aware of His presence and grow to be like Him.

Ask God for an increasing awareness of His presence - He has no favourites.

Cultivate spiritual awareness until it's the biggest thing in your life.

• Turn to God
• Give yourself to Godliness
• Develop spiritual receptivity
• Exercise faith

Remember that the Father is always with us.

• Focus your attention on Him, throughout the day and say, "Thank You"
• Feed and nourish your soul with thoughts of God

Living in God's presence is His gift to us. We live in the world but we're not of the world, because we're part of God's Kingdom here and now.

• Practise being heavenly minded
• Talk with the Father through the day and make Him your main focus

"When I walk by the wayside, He is along with me. When I enter into company amid all of my forgetfulness of Him, He never forgets me. In the silent watches of the night, when my eyelids are closed and my spirit has sunk into unconsciousness, the observant eye of Him who never slumbers is upon me." Thomas Chalmers

Father we repent of our preoccupation with visible things. You've been here with us and we didn't know it. We've been blind to your presence - open our spiritual eyes and help us to be more aware of you and your presence in and around us.