The Experience of His Presence - Dec 2
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🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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One of the greatest gifts of my life has been experience the presence of God. His presence is essential to experiencing and knowing him. And God has made himself so available to us through all that Jesus accomplished. May we simplify what it means to experience God’s presence today and gain a greater sense of confidence to experience the presence of God for ourselves at all times.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 27:4, and today's worship is Out of Hiding by Steffany Gretzinger.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the greatest gifts of my life has been experiencing the presence of God. |
| 0:10.0 | His presence is essential to experiencing and knowing him and God has made himself so available to us |
| 0:17.3 | through all that Jesus accomplished. May we simplify what it means to experience God's presence today and get a greater sense of confidence |
| 0:26.9 | to experience the presence of God for ourselves at all times. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Psalm 27 verse 4. |
| 0:52.7 | Scripture says, |
| 0:54.2 | One thing I have asked of the Lord, |
| 0:56.8 | that will I seek after, that I may dwell |
| 0:59.8 | in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to |
| 1:05.9 | inquire in his temple. |
| 1:11.2 | Experiening the presence of God sounds like such a mystery. |
| 1:16.0 | It sounds like this wonderful but evasive thing that some people get sometimes, |
| 1:22.0 | but isn't concrete enough to expect or place your hope in. |
| 1:27.2 | We associate God's presence with emotions and music as if it were a breeze so light and momentary, you almost couldn't be sure it happened at all. |
| 1:37.0 | But in reality, God's presence is as simple as being in the presence of a friend or spouse. |
| 1:44.0 | It's as simple and concrete as being around a person except for one simple truth. |
| 1:50.0 | God never leaves. And just as you can be in the same room with a friend and not know it, |
| 1:56.2 | you can live the Christian life apart from experiencing God's nearness. |
| 2:02.0 | Just as you can be sitting right across from a friend and be so |
| 2:05.7 | busy with technology or your own thoughts to even remember that they're there. You |
| 2:11.2 | can go through life focused on the busyness of present circumstances and miss out on the fact that God is closer than your breath. |
| 2:22.0 | But we find hope for encountering the presence of God in Psalm 27-4. |
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