‘The Lord replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest—everything will be fine for you.” Then Moses said, “If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place. How will anyone know that you look favorably on me—on me and on your people—if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth.” Exodus 33:14-16

One of the attributes of God is that he is omnipresent. Everything that exists, exists because of God. Almighty God is present everywhere at once. He fills the whole of creation. The Psalmist wrote ‘I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. ‘ Psalms 139:7-12

While God is everywhere, Scripture also reveals that He sometimes manifests His presence in specific, tangible ways.  In the Old Testament, we see an example of this when God appeared to Moses in the burning bush—a fire that did not consume.

Like Moses we want to pray to God during the month of February to manifest his presence in our lives. We are fully aware that there are so many things that have tried to usurp God’s place, different philosophies and ideologies that promote life and salvation and the Jesus story is sometimes just viewed as one of the many except if they truly encounter God’s saving presence.

Our deepest longing is for God’s manifest presence in the Church and in our individual lives. Today, we have structured our prayer sessions into four parts. However, this resource is not just for today. It is designed for use throughout February, providing an opportunity to engage with God and witness His manifest presence transforming lives.