How To Practice God’s Presence

God has promised each and every believer His constant presence (Hebrews 13:5), but are you conscious of His presence every day? When you are conscious of His presence every day, you will experience a peace that gives you rest, joy inexpressible in your spirit and a power that nothing in this world can offer. As a matter fact, you will begin to be peaceful and powerful like Jesus. You will even begin to speak and behave like Him. This is because you cannot be in God’s presence without His beauty, love, peace, power and glory rubbing off on you. But the question here is on how to practice God’s presence in our lives daily and not just when we get to church.

Start seeing God with you in whatever you do and wherever you are. For example, on your way to school, while boarding a taxi or bus, see the Lord with you guiding you all the way to your school. In your examination room, see the Lord there with you also. As you do that you can be sure that His presence will bring clarity of thought and wisdom to you. You will find yourself flowing with great and sound ideas that will keep your examiners in a state of awe.

If you are going for an interview, see the Lord there in the interview room with you, putting answers in your mouth. Your nervousness will melt away as you see His favour on you bringing on smiles and approving nods from the interviewers. Ones while I was in school, I went for an interview for a student leadership position. The interviewers were so impressed by my composure that they asked why I was that calm. My response to them was “the Holy Spirit is sitting right by me so how can I be nervous”. That really impressed them that I got the position uncontested by anyone else.

If you are going for surgery, see the Lord in the operating theatre with you, guiding the hands of the surgeons. All your worries will dissipate because nothing can go wrong in the Lord’s presence.

So how to practice God’s presence is by becoming conscious of God’s presence in your life. When you practice His presence, worries and fears will have no foothold in your mind. You will see Him maximizing your joy and fun, and prospering you in what you say and do! It is in fact the simplest thing any believer can do without a sweat. As you grow in recognising His presence you will begin to literally feel Him every so often in your life.