Fight for your relationship with God above all else. This connection is what fuels us to live life here fulfilled, satisfied, empowered, and open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance. From this type of relationship with God comes purpose, ability, grace, and love for others. Walking and talking with him is the absolute most important part of life. Experiencing him is meant to be our lifeblood. We are created for direct connection with our heavenly Father. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise!” Psalm 84:1-4 Go Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

“How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Ask him to make you increasingly aware of his goodness and nearness. Rest in the glorious presence of your heavenly Father. Take time to allow his presence to go deeper and deeper. Tear down any walls you have built up between you and him.ģ. Ask him how he feels about you and what he wants to do in, around, and through you today. Now ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his presence around you. Ask him to show you his face. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,’ even the darkness is not dark to you the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.” Psalm 139:7-12Ģ. “Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. “Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars.” Psalm 84:3 Meditate on the omnipresence of God. Renew your mind to the availability of his tangible presence. May you open your heart and experience all that he longs to pour out over you today as you spend time encountering him in prayer. There is no better experience in life than connecting directly with your heavenly Father. He loves you, likes you, wants you, and now, he has you. He’s waiting to throw you a party where you are his guest of honor.

Where do you need God’s presence to fill you today? Where do you need comfort, peace, or patience? Where do you need to be loved, held, liked, or wanted? Your heavenly Father is waiting to run out to meet you as the father did with the prodigal son. The veil between God and us has been torn, and we can now live our lives constantly experiencing the manifest presence of our heavenly Father. But through Jesus’ death, we now have access to God’s nearness any time, any place. The nature of his holiness and our sin created an insurmountable crevasse between us and him. Prior to Jesus’ death, God’s people did not have constant access to the fullness of his presence. And as a child of God, his Spirit now dwells within you. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,’ even the darkness is not dark to you the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.” The God of all comfort, of all mercy, of all forgiveness, and of all love surrounds you right now. David writes in Psalm 139:7-12, “Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

There is nowhere we can run to and escape God’s reach. The psalm begs the question: if the birds come before their Creator while simply existing here on Earth, how much more available is the presence of our heavenly Father to us, his children? How much farther does his hand reach to us who are now covered by the powerful sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ? Even the birds of the air come before God’s presence as they lay their young in the canopies. Psalm 84:3 declares the extensiveness of our heavenly Father’s presence in saying, “Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars.” Psalm 84 proclaims that even the birds of the air find their home before the altars of the almighty, living God. He moves, lives, breathes, and works all around us.

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