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    Living in His Presence Study Guide
    Living in His Presence Study Guide
    Living in His Presence Study Guide
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    Living in His Presence Study Guide

    By Robert Morris

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    People plan to spend eternity with God, but they are not spending every day with Him now.

    Do you feel like God is distant and uninvolved in your life?
    Do you find it difficult to express your love to Him?
    Do you hide from His presence until you fix your issues?

    God has given you everything you need to live in His presence right now!

    This study guide is a companion to the DVD series and is designed for group discussion or individual reflection. The sessions will help you change the way you think about your relationship with God and start walking with Him, regardless of your circumstances. You will learn how to overcome any strongholds of sin and express your love to God through worship.

    Discover the power of living daily in His presence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 20, 2019
    ISBN9781951227111
    Living in His Presence Study Guide
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    Robert Morris

    ROBERT MORRIS is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He is featured on the weekly television program The Blessed Life and is the bestselling author of twelve books, including The Blessed Life, From Dream to Destiny, The God I Never Knew, and The Blessed Church. Robert and his wife, Debbie, have been married thirty-five years and are blessed with one married daughter, two married sons, and six grandchildren. Follow Robert on Twitter @PsRobertMorris.  

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      Living in His Presence Study Guide - Robert Morris

      the Author

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      HIS PRESENCE

      God is omnipresent—He is everywhere. We can never hide from Him, but as believers, we can choose to experience His manifest presence by spending time with Him and listening to His voice every day.

      ENGAGE

      What is your favorite sport and/or favorite sports team?

      WATCH

      Watch His Presence.

      Think about the world around you and how God is present in it.

      Watch for the different types of God’s presence, especially His manifest presence.

      (If you are not able to watch this teaching on video, read the following. Otherwise, skip to the Talk section after viewing.)

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      There are three types of God’s presence—His omnipresence, His inner presence, and His manifest presence. Omnipresence means God is everywhere, as seen in Psalm 139:7:

      Where can I go from Your Spirit?

      Or where can I flee from Your presence?

      There is also the inner presence of God that occurs when Holy Spirit comes and lives inside of us after we get saved.

      The third type is the manifest presence of God: when He makes His presence known among us. Worship is important to making God’s presence known. We realize His presence during worship services, but we can also experience the presence of God every day.

      HIS MANIFEST PRESENCE

      God began His relationship with mankind by walking and talking with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. What did we lose when they fell? And what did Jesus come to restore? His manifest presence.

      And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden (Genesis 3:8).

      Sin always causes us to try to hide from the presence of God—even in a worship service. If you messed up in the past week, Satan will say you shouldn’t worship because you will be a hypocrite; however, this is precisely when you need to enter the presence of God. You can enter His presence boldly, even when you make a mistake, because of the blood of Jesus.

      Genesis 3:8 can’t be talking about God’s omnipresence. Since God is everywhere, hiding from Him is impossible. This must be talking about His manifest presence. Adam and Eve were hiding from being made known. Later, in Exodus 33:14–15, God tells Moses His presence will go with the Israelites. This also cannot refer to His omnipresence. God is speaking here of His manifest presence as He promises to walk with His people daily like He did with Adam and Eve. Manifest means to make known, seen, recognized, and understood. God wants to make His presence known to us every day.

      LEAVING HIS PRESENCE

      We cannot leave the omnipresence of God, but we can leave His manifest presence. How does this happen? We leave His presence when we don’t do what He tells us to do. God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree; when they disobeyed, they left His presence. God told Cain to change his attitude toward his brother Abel, but Cain chose to murder his brother and left the presence of God. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, but the prophet ran the opposite direction:

      Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me. But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord (Jonah 1:1–3, emphasis added).

      What do you do when you hear God’s voice? If God speaks to you and you do not obey Him, you leave His presence. I am speaking of willful disobedience, not making mistakes. In life, we can be in the same house with someone (such as a spouse) and not experience the joy of the presence of that person. In the same way, you can come to church, pray, and read the Bible every day, but if you are not living in obedience, you will not fully experience God’s presence.

      ENTERING HIS PRESENCE

      There are many ways to enter God’s presence; in this series we will focus on worship.

      Oh come, let us sing to

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