Here is a third thing I have learned about how to experience more of the Lord’s presence in my own life every day.
Spend time in God’s Word
Remind yourself in your “quiet time” with the Lord that the Bible in your hands is, in every sense of the word, “His Word” and that He, as the living God, wants to speak to you personally through what you are going to read in it today.
There are so many passages in the Bible that remind you of this. Just think of passages like the following:
2 Tim. 3:14 to 17
“But you, continue in what you have learned and have been assured of, knowing who you have been taught by, and that from childhood you have known the holy Scriptures, which can make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired of God and profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Heb. 4:12
“The word of God is living and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Then there is even an entire psalm that reminds you of this, namely Ps. 119. Think of verses like:
Ps. 119:1 to 5
“Blessed is those who walk blamelessly, who walk according to the word of the Lord.
Blessed is those who keep his statutes, who do his will with all their heart, who do no injustice, but walk in his ways.
You have given your commandments to be fully carried out.
Oh, that I might walk uprightly and keep your precepts!”
Ps. 119:105.
“Your word is a lamp to my feet, a light to my path.”
Rom. 12:2
Spending time in God’s Word is the Lord’s way of “renewing the mind” (Rom. 12:2).
Jas. 1:21,22
“Therefore, you should put away all moral filth and unrighteousness that so abundantly exists and humbly accept the word that God has planted in you, for this word can save you. You must do what the word says and not just hear it, deceiving yourselves.”
If it says, “the word can save you”, it does not mean “being saved and going to heaven”. Rather, it is about the Lord being able to change and heal our thoughts, minds, wills, and emotions through His Word, by reading and obeying it.
The more we practice this daily, the easier it will become to keep our attention focused on the Lord and to be sensitive to the voice of His Spirit in our lives.
So, the things of this world will not influence our thinking as easily as they did in the past.