{"id":5944,"date":"2021-02-28T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2021-02-28T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:55:00","slug":"gods-conscious-comforting-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5944","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s conscious comforting presence!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>God\u2019s conscious comforting presence!<br><\/strong><br><em>Octavius Winslow, \u201cBeginning the Year with Jesus\u201d<br><\/em><br>Then Moses said to him, \u201cIf Your Presence<br>does not go with us, do not send us up from<br>here\u2026..\u201d Exodus 33:15<br><br>What a needed and solemn petition!<br><br>God\u2019s presence, going with us! Such is the<br>response of every true God fearing, Christ<br>loving heart. The believer has learned to<br>understand the nature of God\u2019s favor, to<br>know the value of His presence, to test the<br>wisdom of His guidance, and to experience<br>the blessedness of the light of His countenance.<br>And now, the one desire and prayer of his heart<br>is, \u201cLet Your presence go with me. Let it<br>accompany me in all the chequered, changeful<br>history of this year. May Your Presence\u2026.<br>counsel me in difficulty,<br>soothe me in sickness,<br>cheer me in solitude,<br>keep me in danger,<br>shield me in temptation,<br>strengthen me in service,<br>sustain me in suffering, and<br>deliver me from evil.\u201d<br><br>Let, then, the accompanying presence of God be<br>the intense desire of your heart, and the principal<br>element of your Christian experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s conscious comforting presence!Octavius Winslow, \u201cBeginning the Year with Jesus\u201dThen Moses said to him, \u201cIf Your Presencedoes not go with us, do not send us up fromhere\u2026..\u201d Exodus 33:15 What a needed and solemn petition! God\u2019s presence, going with us! Such is theresponse of every true God fearing, Christloving heart. The believer has learned tounderstand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-believers-rule-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5945,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions\/5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}