The presence of God is being taught and sought after nowadays as the place where God can manifest His glory and remove every problem from His people. They see it as a magic place or more like a cloud which can envelope them and bring dramatic changes no matter what kind of life they are living until then. People are waiting for His presence to fall upon them and think that nothing else really matters. So they sit there doing nothing but going to meeting after meeting, longing for the breakthrough 'experience from heaven'. The problem is that they have unknowingly embraced a gospel of passivity which is the hallmark of deceptive spirits.
Now the presence of God can come upon us in visible manner but that is God's prerogative. We are called to go to His presence and not just wait for His presence to be manifest on us. We go in faith and not in feeling. We go not for the visible experience of it but for the invisible sanctification that takes place there when a saint prepares himself for the presence of God to benefit him. The right question is not whether we are enjoying God's presence, but rather - are we gaining from it?
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