Most of us have unfortunately been conditioned by life to consciously, and unconsciously practice, not the presence, but indeed the ‘absence’ of Christ’s Indwelling Presence and Love’!
Through concious discipline we should retrain ourselves by constant reminder that we are already infused and enveloped in this spiritual reality.
Christ promised to never leave or ever forsake us, and to abide by His Spirit within us as a perpetual, uninterrupted indwelling Presence of His Person and His Love.
Although we may not ‘feel’ it, it is there and it is real!
We always need to appropriate this reality by faith, but God, from His side, so to speak, needs no faith to make it a reality, He has already done it!
We simply need to retrain our consciousness in reference to an existing spiritual reality, taking concious possession of this gift of grace.
We should do this often enough, and long enough, never giving mind to the false perception of lack and absence, reprogramming our thinking processes and deliberately being ‘consciously conscious’ of the reality of His Indwelling Presence and Love.
Soon this awareness of an already existing spiritual reality, will become part of our nature, and our conciousness.
Soon we until we become ‘unconsciously concious’ of His Presence and Love.
Similar to the process of first learning how to drive a motorcar, we will commence with a rather rough beginning, lacking confidence we will be off to a hesitant stalling and going again, stop and start ride.
However through paying attention and constant practice soon we will progress to the place of being able to shift gears without even thinking and successfully negotiating the road without concious effort.
Likewise, in our spiritual conciousness we will go form ‘crawling as being mere ‘babes in Christ’ to walking confidently like Jesus walked in the earth as the Son of God.Walking with the concious awareness that we are indeed also truly the children of the Living God!
“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” Joh 14:19-21
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will[e] believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:20-26
Most of us have unfortunately been conditioned by life to consciously, and unconsciously practice, not the presence, but indeed the ‘absence’ of Christ’s Indwelling Presence and Love’!Through concious discipline we should retrain ourselves by constant reminder that we are already infused and enveloped in this spiritual reality.
Christ promised to never leave or ever forsake us, and to abide by His Spirit within us as a perpetual, uninterrupted indwelling Presence of His Person and His Love.
Although we may not ‘feel’ it, it is there and it is real!
We always need to appropriate this reality by faith, but God, from His side, so to speak, needs no faith to make it a reality, He has already done it!
We simply need to retrain our consciousness in reference to an existing spiritual reality, taking concious possession of this gift of grace.
We should do this often enough, and long enough, never giving mind to the false perception of lack and absence, reprogramming our thinking processes and deliberately being ‘consciously conscious’ of the reality of His Indwelling Presence and Love.
Soon this awareness of an already existing spiritual reality, will become part of our nature, and our conciousness.
Soon we until we become ‘unconsciously concious’ of His Presence and Love.
Similar to the process of first learning how to drive a motorcar, we will commence with a rather rough beginning, lacking confidence we will be off to a hesitant stalling and going again, stop and start ride.
However through paying attention and constant practice soon we will progress to the place of being able to shift gears without even thinking and successfully negotiating the road without concious effort.
Likewise, in our spiritual conciousness we will go form ‘crawling as being mere ‘babes in Christ’ to walking confidently like Jesus walked in the earth as the Son of God.Walking with the concious awareness that we are indeed also truly the children of the Living God!
“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” Joh 14:19-21
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will[e] believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:20-26
Awesome!
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