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SEEKING THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD
“The Lord was with Him.” (1 Samuel 2:19)
“You will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deuteronomy 4:29)
I want us to look at the overwhelming blessing of the Lord being with us and what our responsibility is to have that happen. I am not talking about the omni-presence of the Lord here. All of God is everywhere at the same time. David said, “If I make my bed in Sheol (the realm of the dead), You are there.” You can’t go anywhere that God is not already there and has been there since the beginning of time. God can’t go anywhere because He is already everywhere. That is the doctrine of the omni-presence of God.
The presence of God we will look at here in the Bible is that special presence of God that shows up to bless and favor you. Of the scores of times “the Lord was with him” appears in the Bible it is always used as the cause of someone being blessed. We shall see that. It means the Lord is with you because He is for you. He is on your side and He helps you to withstand great trials and accomplish great achievements. That’s the presence of God we will be looking at in this study. His presence is better than a good luck charm. Someone gave me a rabbit’s foot once and I asked him what that was for. He said it’s for good luck. I told him it wasn’t that lucky for the rabbit. God is not a four-leaf clover or Lucky Charms. He is God and when He is with you, you are blessed.
Well, you might say, God says He will never leave us nor forsake us. That is true. He will never leave us, but we can leave Him. If God seems far from you right now, guess who moved? The Prodigal Son left his father; the father didn’t leave him. Jonah ran from the presence of God. People forsake God all the time. The harsh reality is that some people live their whole lives without the blessed presence of God in their lives. What a loss! We are going to look at the earthly and eternal blessings that come from the Lord being with us... http://www.gracehouseclinton.com/2020/12/seeking-the-presence-of-the-lord
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