Today in the podcast we'll explore but I hope is the fruit of every day's

devotional communion with God we serve a God who is simply after being with us.

Every moment of every day is a chance to let God in, to live in real restored relationship

with Him.

May God guide us ever closer to him as we create room for him to fill right now.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John 15 4 through 5. God's word says,

Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I am the vine, you are the branches.

Whoever abides in me and I and him, he it is that bears much fruit.

For apart from me, you can do nothing.

The Christian life is meant to be marked by union with God. By the

powerful sacrifice of Jesus, the Holy Spirit now dwells within us, longing to make his nearness known.

He longs for his perfect love and peace to be the foundation of everything we do, think,

and feel.

Brother Lawrence wrote about a life-lived in continual communion with God in the book the practice

of the presence of God.

He said, I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied

without the practice of the presence of God. For my part, I keep myself retired with him and the depth of the center of my soul as much as I can.

And while I am so with him I fear nothing but the least turning from him is insupportable.

The more we grow in our knowledge of the profound union that exists between our spirit and the Holy Spirit, the more we will

discover our great need of his tangible constant presence.

Maybe you're at a place where you don't feel like you really know God.

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