BIBLE STUDIES FROM NLC LEADERS - GILL ROWE

Hi everyone, God is good!

Here are a few studies from our leaders in New Life Church, maybe one a day?

We want you to know that you are loved by us. We continue to pray for you, strengthen you and help you in your faith in Jesus

God’s blessings and lots of love.

8. Being

In the 9 days that I was at the hospital when my Mum was gravely ill. There was not much to do other than ‘be’ with her. As a person who is always busy this was a strange concept for me, but in the last few days of her life I had plenty of time to think and realised that just being there for her, talking to her, singing, praying, reading to her and simply just sitting quietly was enough. There was very little I could do, BEING with her was the most important thing.

This made me think about my relationship with God. As we read about Martha and Mary in Luke 10: 38-42 Martha busied herself with lots of jobs, but Mary chose the better thing…to BE with Jesus.

We are human BEINGS, not human doings, for me I am realising more that I need to BE with Jesus, not always be doing things for him (although this is not wrong)

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In Exodus 3:14 God says: ‘I AM WHO I AM’. This is the present tense, God is with us now, this is a state of being.

Jesus tells us in John 14:20: ‘I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.’ As this is the case, we just need to settle ourselves daily and BE with Jesus, BEING in HIS presence.

Psalm 46: 10 says ‘Be still and know that I am God’. Sometimes we just need to BE STILL in His presence.

We are created to have a relationship with God through Jesus and we all have access to this… how much we give ourselves to BEING with him is up to us.

Psalm 27:4 

 One thing I ask from the Lord,
    this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
    and to seek him in his temple.

John 15:1-17 Jesus tells us to abide in HIM.

In this current time we probably have more time available to BE in His presence. There may be lots of jobs we can do but let’s just take the time to BE with him.

We sometimes sing a song by Noel Richards it goes like this:

To be in your presence
To sit at your feet
When your love surrounds me
And makes me complete

This is my desire, o Lord
This is my desire
This is my desire, o Lord
This is my desire

To rest in your presence
Not rushing away
To cherish each moment
Here I would stay

This is my desire, o Lord
This is my desire………. X4

Let’s make it our desire to BE with Jesus more in everything and be even more aware of His presence in our lives.

Gill Rowe.