Today on the podcast we'll explore what 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 15 podcast.

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 foundational 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 in the depth of 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, consistent presence.

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

Maybe you know about Him, but you don't know him like a real friend.

In describing the process of coming to know God, Brother Lawrence wrote,

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