I’m Here Always

Why does it seem that people are always talking about God but don’t seem to talk to Him. I mean we talk about Him and read about Him and sing and discuss Him…but God is always present…why not talk to Him…

He hears our conversations, but we are not aware of Him…

We should, be aware of Him, especially when we are His children…and yes He’s invisible but that does not mean we are not in His presence. He made Himself visible when He sent Jesus. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, the promise, that He would live in us, when He ascended to the Father. We see Him in the earth, in the wind, in the sea. We see Him in each day break and sunset. We see Him in the faces of newborn babies but we don’t recognize Him. Stop and see.

We read and study the Bible about God. We go to Church and hear about Him. We read devotionals and listen to television and radio messages about Him…

It’s not like He’s not in the room with us, but we don’t acknowledge Him….We talk around Him…we talk about Him…we say we know He’s real and He’s our friend and we love Him…so why don’t we talk to, Him…?

Not only that, as His children…His Holy Spirit lives within us…He reveals Jesus to us…so why…why do we not talk, to, Him, directly? We even ask other people to pray for us and there is nothing wrong with that…but He wants us, you and I, to talk to Him…and listen. If we say He is our Lord and we know Him, not just know about Him…then we have to realize He is in the room with us…We are in His presence…He is ever present, so we should stop ignoring Him…

We need to realize that we are spiritual beings living in a temporal body. We have emotions and feelings and thought and ideas and behaviors in a natural life but our spirit is going to leave our earthy bodies one day…to live in an eternal place. A place that is more real than where we are now. It’s a supernatural place. We won’t need our bodies in that place…but we will be known as we are known. Some believe that, and some do not. Talk to God, He will tell you it’s true.

Recognize your spiritual self and recognize that God is a Spirit and being His child we are like Him in spirit…Even while we are still in this temporal body. Walk in the spirit, live in the spirit, because when we do…we will recognize God is all around us and we won’t ignore Him anymore. We will acknowledge that He is, in the room. We’ll be more aware of how we talk and what we do and where we go and how we treat others.

Your best friend is with you all the time…and the best part about that is that, we can, talk directly to Him at any moment of the day or night. He’s standing right there right now…don’t be shy…He knows you and He’s waiting to have a good conversation with you…

~Marla Shaw O’Neill July 18, 2017

Psalm 139New American Standard Bible (NASB)

God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience.

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.

O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain. Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Psalm 46:10-11 

“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24 ESV

He calls me friend. John 15:15 

…“Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:40-41

And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. John 17:5 NIV

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:31-32 NIV