87 Bible Verses About God's Presence
Bible verses about God's Presence
Understanding God's presence is paramount to a fulfilling spiritual journey. Scripture reveals that we are never truly alone; the Divine is always with us, a constant source of strength, comfort, and guidance. Exploring Bible verses about God's presence allows us to recognize and cultivate this awareness in our daily lives. It invites us to move beyond intellectual assent to a lived experience of the sacred, transforming mundane moments into encounters with the Holy. Through scripture, we learn how to abide in His presence, fostering a deeper connection that brings peace, hope, and unwavering faith amidst life's challenges.
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1 Kings 8:13 (KJV)
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
Experiencing God's Presence: Bible Verses & Guidance
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings.
On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
And David went on, and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.
And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:
And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.
And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
And let us arise, and go up to Beth–el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee.
And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.
And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.
Encountering God's presence through scripture offers profound comfort and direction. The verses explored reveal a God who is not distant or aloof, but intimately involved in the lives of His creation. From the promise of Immanuel, "God with us," to the assurance of His constant nearness in times of trouble, these passages paint a vivid picture of divine companionship. Reflecting on these scriptures encourages us to cultivate an awareness of God's presence in every moment, both the mundane and the momentous. May these verses serve as a constant reminder that we are never truly alone, and may they inspire us to seek Him with greater intention, knowing that He is always present and waiting to be found. Let us actively apply these truths by praying expectantly, listening attentively, and living courageously, confident in the unwavering presence of our loving God.