Recognize God Within

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God seeks to meet you in this present moment;^(a) a place apart from threats of an uncertain future, detached from a troubled past.^(b)
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 Now you can meet with God, Who is beyond yourself, and recognize Him within.^(c+d)  Selfless pure goodness seen within is not you, but God.^(e)  
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Acknowledging that you are actually looking at and see the invisible God, revealed as the Spirit of Jesus Christ,^(f+g) may ignite unanticipated praise.^(h+i)
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(a) John 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

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 (b) Matthew 6:13 Lead us not into temptation (in the future), but deliver us from evil (from our past).

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(c)  John 1:9 + 10 KJV  (Jesus) was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

(d) 1 John 4:1 - 3  Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God.

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(e)  Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone.

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(f)   2 Corinthians 4:6  For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.

(g) John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

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(h) Psalm 46:10 He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

(i)    Acts 17:27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.