{"id":11846,"date":"2024-09-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2016-08-04T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:28:37","slug":"presence-god-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/presence-god-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence of God II"},"content":{"rendered":"Good morning, dear friends!\r\n\r\nGlory to God for this wonderful day that God has given us today! Thank God for one more opportunity to share God\u2019s word with you!\r\n\r\nYesterday we started talking about God\u2019s presence. We pointed out that it is God\u2019s presence that separates His people from all the other nations. God\u2019s presence is what makes us stronger and more glorious. How can we experience God\u2019s presence in our lives?\r\n\r\nPossibly, there are several ways to do it, but it is very important to realize that it is impossible to experience God\u2019s presence without prayer. God left the recipe of how to experience His presence in His Word.\r\n<h6>\u00abDraw near to God and He will draw near to you\u00bb (James, 4:8\u0430)<\/h6>\r\nWe can assume that this is talking about prayer. Prayer is our privileged opportunity of drawing close to God and experiencing His presence, His love, power, mercy, grace and His wisdom.\r\n\r\nNo other creature, except humans, has been given this privilege to get close to God. If people will use this opportunity, He will also feel and experience God\u2019s presence, His glory, power and support. It brings continues renewal and freshness into a person\u2019s life.\r\n\r\nIf God tells us to draw near, so that He could draw near to us, then who determines how close or how far God will be to us? It is determined by us! A person can consciously draw close to God or not to do it. It will determine the level of God\u2019s presence in person\u2019s life, his family and ministry.\r\n<h6>\u00abDraw near to God and He will draw near to you\u00bb (James, 4:8\u0430)<\/h6>\r\nMoses refused to go anywhere unless he could secure that God would go with them.\r\n<h6>\u00abFor how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall beseparate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth\u00bb\u00a0(Exodus, 33:16).<\/h6>\r\nSo, answering the question how a person can experience God\u2019s presence in his life we can say the following:\r\n\r\nfirst, one must realize how important and indispensable God\u2019s presence is for him or her and whether he or she is ready to pay the necessary price for it, and, second, one must consciously draw near to God in prayer so that God can draw near to him or her.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s continue tomorrow!\r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How can we experience God\u2019s presence in our lives?\r\n\r\nPossibly, there are several ways to do it, but it is very important to realize that it is impossible to experience God\u2019s presence without prayer. God left the recipe of how to experience His presence in His Word.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00abDraw near to God and He will draw near to you\u00bb (James, 4:8\u0430)","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/depositphotos_9194883-stock-photo-happy-jump-jumping-on-beach-e1664277712890.jpg",600,398,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38736,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions\/38736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}