Quotes About Presence

However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

ëHeaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?

So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.”

Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.

For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me

so that no one may boast in His presence.

Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”

knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.

For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

Such people should consider that what we are in our letters when absent, we will be in our actions when present.

This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I am present I will not need to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

In Him and through faith in Him we may enter Godís presence with boldness and confidence.

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.