The omnipresence of god download#
“Immersed” by Linda Lee Looking for more? This article appears in a free ebook called Intimate Relationship with God – you can download it here. Being sure that all that you need will be provided when you need it – just like the sparrows.Ĭan you believe and can you trust enough to actually receive this in your heart? “Our believing produces our receiving.” – Alyn JonesĬan you imagine what it would look like to live in God’s Manifest Presence 24/7? Imagine the peace of knowing all your steps are ordered – never feeling rushed or worried.
Talk to Him as though He is really RIGHT THERE with you. If I wake up feeling foggy, then I speak to Him until my mind clears and I am again aware of His presence. Every morning I wake up aware of His Presence. I’ve spent my life chasing after Him and I am happy to report that I now live in His Manifest Presence. Be faithful.Ĭultivate an awareness of His Presence. Just obey with all your heart the last thing He told you to do. Don’t try to EARN your way into His Manifest Presence. You can know this place – you can walk with God like this. It’s amazing – it’s life-giving, it’s comforting, it’s fullness of joy. We can acknowledge that and live in that knowledge.īut there is a place of living in the Manifest Presence of God – where you KNOW HE IS THERE, right there where you are. We all live in the Omnipresence of God – God is everywhere. “There’s a difference between living in the Omnipresence of God and living in the Manifest Presence of God.” – Alyn Jones, Grace Center, Franklin, TN No matter where you are, or what you are going through-whether through sorrows, struggles, or joys-according to David, Solomon, and Paul, God is present with you, whether you feel it or not.Abraham said, “The Lord, in Whose presence I walk …” On the other hand, omnipresence is a comforting truth. How should that change the way you live? How should that motivate you to holiness? God knows exactly what you’re doing all the time because He is there. On the one hand, omnipresence is a sobering truth. In other words, while omnipresence is not a Biblical term, it does express a Biblical idea : God is everywhere at the same time. That this is true is a matter of revelation. How this is true is a matter of debate (theological and philosophical). Notice the ascending verbs: we live in Him, we move in Him, and we have our being (our very existence) in Him. “ He is not far from each one of us for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring’ ” (Acts 17: 27b- 28). As Paul said, addressing an Athenian audienc e and quoting from the Greek philosopher-poet Epimenides , In fact, His existence transcends creation. God can manifest His presence at specific times and in specific places-such as manifesting His glory in the t emple-but those special manifestations are not signs that God can be contained in creation. He is greater than the heavens and the earth so that neither can contain Him. God is not another object in the universe. How much less this temple which I have built!” (1 Kgs 8:27). “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. Why not? King Solomon gave part of the answer when he dedicated the Temple: There is nowhere you can go where God is not.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there (Ps 139:7-8). Īlthough there is no single verse that explicitly says “God is omnipresent,” that idea is implied by several verses. To say that God is omnipresent is to say that He is present to all creation. This means more than saying that God knows about all creation or can appear wherever He wishes or can affect all creation by His power. Instead, He is present everywhere at the same time. That means that, unlike creatures (or pagan gods and goddesses), God is not limited by physical space. Outside of his or her particular domain, the god was powerless.īy contrast, in Biblical thought, God is omnipresent. A god was in this tree or city, or only had power over that mountain or river. The ancients thought their gods were limited to certain places.
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