GOD IS IN OUR NOW

Psalm 86:5 NLT O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.

When I was thinking about practicing being in the Lord’s presence yesterday I was realising afresh how loving, and kind and merciful He is to each one of us.😊 He pours His love out on us each day, He gives us His mercies new every morning as the day begins, and then He gives us His abundant supply of grace and strength that will see us through the next 24 hours.

He won’t give us a supply for today and tomorrow, just for today, because He wants us to remember to come back tomorrow morning when we wake up to receive our fresh supply of everything we will need. He is our ‘now’ God, our great ‘I AM’ present tense God.

God is always in our now because we live in the ‘now’. We hope for tomorrow, we’ve already used up yesterday, but it’s our now that counts, it’s our now we can use wisely, our now that needs His help, our now where God wants to live with us, filling us with Himself and making us complete. Isn’t that wonderful?😊

As I thought about it I felt Him saying to take His love, His mercy and His grace and to give it to others. When they’re not lovely, love them any way. When they don’t deserve mercy, remember He has shown us endless mercy, and given us a fresh supply each morning to help us not to be judgemental or critical, but to be merciful to others. And when others need some grace and favour, when they need a boost, or encouragement or help, to give it to them, because He has given us more than enough to share.😊

Whatever you find to do today, remember your God is in your now with you. He’s loving, kind and merciful and He is asking each one of us to be the same. In Jesus name. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT IS THE QUESTION!

Psalm 16:11 NIV You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

You may remember the song Noel Richard’s wrote, “To be In Your Presence (My Desire)” and it says this…

‘To be in Your presence
To sit at Your feet

Where Your love surrounds me

And makes me complete

To rest in Your presence

Not rushing away

To cherish each moment

Here I would stay

This is my desire O Lord, this is my desire.’

Psalm 139 reminds us that we can never be away from God’s presence no matter where we are but sometimes it’s good to deliberately sit in God’s presence and allow His love to minister to our thirsty souls.😊

When we want to be in His presence we’re wanting to have a sense of closeness with our loving Father. Yesterday we looked at seeking God’s face and it ties in with today because apparently the Hebrew word for ‘presence’ implies ‘face’, which suggests having personal attention, favour and a direct relationship.

Praise God, because of Jesus, we have all of those things available to us. We have God’s personal attention around the clock, we have His favour surrounding us like a shield and we have His very own invitation to come into His throne room at any time to receive His mercy and grace when we need it. How privileged we are!😊

‘To be or not to be’ that is still the question! Are we going to spend time ‘to be’, or not ‘to be’, in God’s presence? It’s amazing that we’re allowed to seek Him out and enjoy a close relationship with Him, to spend some time with Him without rushing away, so He can make us complete and fill us with His joy, but also so we can minister to Him with our praise and thanksgiving, and our worship.

We know it will be well worth it when we do.😊 Amen.

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