Practicing God's Presence: Brother Lawrence for Today's Reader (Quiet Times for the Heart): Brother Lawrence for Today's Reader

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Does your heart long to live in God's presence? Do you struggle to maintain a daily relationship with Him? Learn to continually be found in the very presence of God as Charles Finney, one of America's most influential writers on revival, reveals how you can receive strength to overcome the things of this world, as you daily experience the presence of God.

Now, this doesn’t mean that you will not mess up. But it means that you will overcome sin because God will strengthen you in your inner being. 5. It removes Insecure Thoughts The daily news. So much news is bad news, and we are humanly powerless to do much about much bad news. Whenever I think of an item of news, I turn it into a prayer that God would act, and that if he wants me to act, that he would prod me to do so. As he proceeded in his work, he continued his familiar conversation with his Maker, imploring His grace, and offering to Him all his actions.” Spend time in God’s Word What a year it has been: unexpected uncertainties, patterns and rhythms of personal and family life overturned, plans disrupted, usual ministry impossible, and new ways of ministry to learn. On the upside, greater dependence on God to do his work; unexpected opportunities for evangelism and practical support; increased realisation of how valuable it is to meet together; and greater thankfulness for many of God’s gifts that we take for granted. While many have had the challenge of doing ministry, family life and schooling in a confined space, my experience has been more time alone. This has provided an opportunity to grow my prayer life, as I have been learning to ‘ practise the presence of God.’ Of course, the only exception is that He did not sin, but He was fully human… and in that we have hope and direction.Also, notice how being filled with God’s spirit is directly correlated with singing to the Lord, and since the Holy Spirit is the presence of God on the earth it’ll be wise of us to be inviting to Him, and singing to the Father apparently does this. [Related article: Is the Presence of God the Holy Spirit? (Biblical Answer)] Instead he emptied himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant. He became human! Philippians 2:7 The Passion Translation (TPT)

If we want God to be the center of our lives, then we must train ourselves to turn to Him and not just at the beginning or end of the day, but from moment to moment – or in Brother Lawrence’s case, task by task. How To Practice The Presence Of God So as you can see from just a few of these passages singing to the Lord was a pretty big deal to the apostle Paul.When we have no other options but God, that’s when we most feel like running to Him. But what if we ran to Him every day and moment of our lives? Wouldn’t our lives be different?

That means that he probably woke up, got ready, worked, traveled, and cleaned all while praying in tongues! That is a lot of speaking in tongues.The second one is God’s indwelling presence. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and God dwells in you. But where does the sudden negativity leave you? Usually upset, of course. Maybe even so bothered that it ruins an entire day or week.