{"id":40358,"date":"2026-05-17T23:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40358"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:25:10","slug":"26-0518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0518\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever in His Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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2 Corinthians 6:1 says we are \u201cGod\u2019s fellow workers.\u201d \u00a0Rather than report to God, we work with God.\u00a0 We are always in the presence of God.\u00a0 There is never a nonsacred moment!<\/p>\n

Is it possible to live\u2014minute by minute<\/em>\u2014in the presence of God? Jesus enjoyed unbroken communion with God, and God wants that same abiding intimacy with you and me.\u00a0 He wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. \u00a0You know it\u2019s impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. What good news!\u00a0 We are NEVER away from God!\u00a0 And He is NEVER away from us!<\/p>\n

As we search the Bible, we realize that unbroken communion with God is the intent and not the exception.\u00a0 Within the reach of\u00a0every\u00a0<\/em>Christian is the unending presence of God.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Just Like Jesus<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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2 Corinthians 6:1 says we are \u201cGod\u2019s fellow workers.\u201d Rather than report to God, we work with God. We are always in the presence of God. There is never a nonsacred moment!<\/p>\n

Is it possible to live\u2014minute by minute\u2014in the presence of God? Jesus enjoyed unbroken communion with God, and God wants that same abiding intimacy with you and me. He wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. You know it\u2019s impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. What good news! We are NEVER away from God! And He is NEVER away from us!<\/p>\n

As we search the Bible, we realize that unbroken communion with God is the intent and not the exception. Within the reach of every Christian is the unending presence of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40360,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40358\/revisions\/40360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}