God Promises His Presence
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
As we near the end of series on God’s promises, today we’re going to look at the promise of his presence. The nearness of God is always to our good. In every situation, good or bad, challenging or easy, it’s so good to be near to God. So wherever you are today, lay down every other pursuit, just for the next few minutes, and focus simply on resting on God’s presence.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 139:9-10, and today's worship is Christ The Lord is With Me by Steffany Gretzinger.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | As we near the end of the series on God's promises, today we're going to look at the promises |
| 0:09.7 | of His presence. |
| 0:10.9 | The nearness of God is always to our good. |
| 0:14.6 | In every situation good or bad, challenging or easy, it's so good to be near to God. |
| 0:20.9 | So wherever you are today, lay down every other pursuit just for the next few minutes and |
| 0:26.6 | focus simply on resting on God's presence. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the first fifteen podcasts. |
| 0:34.9 | One of the most life-giving promises God makes to His children is His promise to be near. |
| 0:41.3 | David wrote in Psalm 139, 9-10, |
| 0:44.9 | If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there |
| 0:50.5 | your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me. |
| 0:54.6 | It's an incredible image, David paints of the nearness of God. |
| 0:59.1 | If we were to explore the ends of the earth, God would still be there. |
| 1:03.4 | If we were to dive to the depths of the ocean, God would still be there. |
| 1:08.5 | If we descend into the darkest places of our inner being, we will still find God. |
| 1:14.6 | There's no place we can go that He isn't present. |
| 1:18.0 | God's presence floods the earth like the early morning fog, saturating everything |
| 1:23.4 | with His haze. |
| 1:24.8 | His presence is His promise. |
| 1:27.6 | So what do we do with the knowledge of God's nearness? |
| 1:31.3 | What does it mean for us? |
| 1:33.1 | In Deuteronomy 31-6, we're told He will never leave you nor forsake you. |
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