If you leave a church service, or conclude your daily devotional time of prayer and Bible reading, filled with love, faith, peace, joy, hope, humility, and a passion for holiness, you have experienced the manifest presence of God. You are filled with God.
How to Cultivate a Sense of God's Presence
- Meditate on God's Word. Don't just read it; reflect on it.
- Confess and forsake any known sin. Sin creates a gap between us and God (Isa.
- Pray in the Holy Spirit.
- Fast to the Lord.
- Sing to the Lord.
- Go to church.
- Be a generous giver.
- Tell others about Jesus.
Divine presence, presence of God, Inner God, or simply presence is a concept in religion, spirituality, and theology that deals with the ability of a god or gods to be "present" with human beings.
Being in the presence of God equips you with the blessing, with joy, and with peace. When you spend time with him, the fruit of the spirit becomes an outflow of that relationship, and when you go to the presence of God in the midst of rough times, he will go to work for you.
They seek to understand God's nature. In order to describe God's attributes, or characteristics, theologians use three important terms: omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.
To pray through Jesus is to make Him a medium or intermediary to the Father, and that's wrong. To pray in the Name of Jesus means you're standing in the place of Jesus; you've become His voice. He's given you the legal right to use His Name.
According to Father Grou the five essential components of a well made prayer are that it be made: attentively, reverently, lovingly, confidently and perseveringly. Here are condensed and edited comments from Father Grou pertaining to these five qualities of a well made prayer.
God is more than words on a page; He is a present, tangible, reality! His presence has always been and will always be which is why He is called the Alpha and Omega. As the supreme ruler of heaven, earth, the universe and all things, He is Omnipresent which means He is everywhere at once.
God is spirit (John 4:24) and is able to be everywhere at one time. He is not just an atmosphere, but rather a personal God that has the unique capability of being ever-present. This is how He can truly promise, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb.
4 Ways to Be Still and Know that He is God
- Idea 1: Consider the Nations . . . and Turn Off the News. This psalm shows us that throughout time, people have been concerned about world events.
- Idea 2: Look Outdoors.
- Idea 3: Look at the People Around You.
- Idea 4: Look Inside Yourself.
- Psalm 46:8-11 (ESV)
The Psalms tell us that "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble." (Psalm 46:1.) With God as our refuge, we need not fear -- we will not fear -- even as the earth gives way and as the waters roar.
Sometimes, when our hearts are overwhelmed, all we need do is cry out to God and ask that in our desperation and fear, God would place us on stable ground. God would comfort us and lead us to safety. God would shelter us and deliver us.
What does it mean when we say “God is my Fortress”? Remind yourself and your situation that the Lord is your Rock, Fortress, Deliverer, Refuge, Shield, Horn of Salvation, Stronghold, Worthy of praise, Savior. So, you know this, you understand this, He is all you need. Then, you see your situation around you.
Do not fear or be dismayed. Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Psalm 34:17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. Isaiah 30:15 In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.
When you take refuge in something physical, you are trusting it will take care of you or at least make you feel safe and secure. When we take refuge in God, we are offering that trust to him instead. Through prayer, we surrender our fears and failures, and tap in to his perspective.
Nothing is too hard or difficult for God. Mark 10:27 “And JESUS looking upon them saith, WITH MEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, but not with God: FOR WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE”. Matthew 19:26 “But JESUS beheld them, and said unto them, WITH MEN THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE; BUT WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE”.
Psalm 46 1A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
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- God speaks through thoughts and feelings. When God is speaking to you, it's not likely that he will come stand in front of you in the flesh.
- The Spirit brings feelings of peace.
- The voice of the God will resonate with us.
God cares for us“For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
So many people are unaware or forget that God is on their side. A word of caution here…God is on the side of the righteous, those in right-standing with him because of accepting the sacrifice of Jesus. God is on the side of truth—His word is truth (John 17:17). God is on our side when we are on HIS side.
Right where He always is — on His throne in Heaven. This has not taken Him by surprise, nor is He apathetic or unsympathetic to our suffering.
It's recorded in Genesis (before Jesus' appearance), and we know Jesus said it to the disciples prior to His ascension. So, articulated twice for sure. Six times.
God says, "Fear not" God asks us for faith, not fear. Faith in him as Lord over all is our strength that overcomes all fear, both real and imagined. "For I am with you" - no matter the situation, as long as we remain, "in faith" we have nothing to fear for God is with us and God is protecting us.
In the Book of Matthew (12: 31-32), we read, "Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. I believe that God can forgive all sins provided the sinner is truly contrite and has repented for his or her offenses.
Yes, God knew Adam and Eve would sin before he created them. Isaiah quoted a statement from the Lord to show us: “I am God, and there is none like me. I declare from the beginning how it will end and foretell from the start what has not yet happened.
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.” (Isaiah 43:1). That powerful promise confirms that God knows your name! We all like to protect our name. He says, 'I have summoned you by name; you are mine.” Yes, God knows your name.
Defenders of religion have countered that the question is improper: We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed.
God's presence is continuous throughout all of creation, though it may not be revealed in the same way at the same time to people everywhere. God is omnipresent in a way that he is able to interact with his creation however he chooses, and is the very essence of his creation.
God is omniscient and His knowledge is timeless—that is, God knows timelessly all that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Therefore, if He knows directly that a person will perform such-and-such an action, then it is impossible for that person not to perform that action.
An alternative view is that God does not grasp the truth of propositions; rather he is immediately and directly aware of the world without any propositional intermediaries that are about the world. This is the non-propositional view of God's knowledge.
Theists believe in a benevolent God—a personal creator who cares about the fate of individual human beings. The universe exists because God chose to create it. Either God sees that the universe would be good or God's creation makes it good.
The Bible testifies to the need for acquired freedom because no one "is free for obedience and faith till he is freed from sin's dominion." People possess natural freedom but their "voluntary choices" serve sin until they acquire freedom from "sin's dominion." The New Bible Dictionary denotes this acquired freedom for
