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God knows how strong and driving your need is—He designed it that way. You can be confident that by turning and drawing near to God He can and will meet that need! Repentance can help you experience what God offers freely.

Learning to Recognize the Practical

Evidence that You Want God is

an important step toward repentance

and experiencing God's presence

—24 hours-a-day

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An Important Step Toward "Abiding in Christ"

Christian's already have Christ abiding inside us. But Jesus command was that we also abide with us inside Him (John 15:4).

You can abide in Christ more fully. You have to learn to drink from Him like a branch drinks from a tree. One of the most important practical steps toward doing so, is to learn to recognize the evidence of your desire for God—in everyday life. 

You want God and God wants to draw near to you. Your desire for His presence never decreases and God never stops wanting to be closer to you. You get distracted by earthly things, but God doesn't get distracted. Ever.  

Learning to observe the earthly evidence of your desire for God will help lay a better foundation for learning to welcome the presence of God all the time, no matter where you are or what you are doing—not just on special days of worship—all during the week too.

It is much easier to turn and receive God's presence—when you recognize that your motives, cravings, and behavior all demonstrate an overpowering need for the presence of the Holy Spirit to be here with you. The evidence suggests strongly that anything less than an "abundance" of His presence wont’ be enough.

You can learn to trust God to give you enough of His presence to help keep you turned and wanting to feed on Him. You don't have to go through life trying to substitute human glory for His presence. Thank the Lord right now that you can trust His abundant grace! Part of the process has to do with learning to recognize your 24 hour need for the closeness of God's presence.

God designed you to want Him, but also with the power to choose to meet your need by earthly means. When you can recognize your need for God is constant and never leaves you, it will be much easier to turn to God—without hesitation and without condemnation. God designed your thirsty need to be strong.  

By the information in this section, you will be better able to observe your desperate desire for God revealing itself in some unwanted behavior or earthly pursuit and then turn to God immediately— without feeling like you have to wait to turn to God until after you have punished yourself enough to earn payment for what you did wrong.

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