Why God? “Why Do You Feel So Far Away?”

Why God?
“Why Do You Feel So Far Away?”
6/14/26
Pastor Mark England

Have I ever felt the of God?
Have I felt the presence of God ?

God’s presence can give you a feeling.
So can sitting next to that you like.

God’s presence can make you .
So can watching the .

God’s presence can be .
So can a .

What about the times that you wanted to feel the presence of God, but you didn’t feel Him ?

Who’s at is it when we don’t feel the presence of God?
fault?
fault?
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Psalm 16:8-9, 11 (CSB) I always let the Lord guide me.  Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. ⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices; my body also rests securely.

You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures.

You want to believe, but you don’t “” anything.
If you don’t always … You’re not alone!

Psalm 88:13-14 (CSB) But I call to you for help, Lord; in the morning my prayer meets you. ¹⁴ Lord, why do you reject me? Why do you hide your face from me?

Why Does God Feel So Far Away?

1. Maybe you’re God’s presence.

John 6:30 (CSB) “What sign, then, are you going to do so that we may see and believe you?” they asked. “What are you going to perform?

aren’t the only evidence of the presence of God!

If you always God, you wouldn’t need .

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 (CSB) So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. ⁷ For we walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸ In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 

2. Maybe your heart has .

Matthew 13:14-15 (CSB) You will listen and listen, but never understand;
you will look and look, but never perceive. ¹⁵ For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back— and I would heal them.

Maybe you are a Christian, but you have allowed your heart to be hardened by .

Someone hurt you.
Something happened to you…
Now, you enter into self-preservation by closing your heart to people and push God away.

The number one cause of a hardened heart is ongoing .

Hebrews 3:12-13 (CSB) Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³ But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.

3. Maybe God just wants to .

Acts 17:26-27 (CSB) From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. ²⁷ He did this so that they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Deprivation draws out .

When you don’t , you get .
When you don’t , you get .
When you don’t , more!

God wants to be and by you!

Jeremiah 29:13-14 (CSB) You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will restore you to the place from which I deported you.”

Just because God feels , it doesn’t mean God is .

Don’t everything you feel.
Feelings aren’t .
If you trust your feelings on everything you would be in !

God is calling you out of your to activate your .

Matthew 1:21, 23 (CSB) She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” ²³ See, the virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel, which is translated “God is with us.”

Feel Him or not, is to believe God is with me.

Psalm 16:8 (CSB) I always let the Lord guide me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Why don’t I feel the presence of God?
1. Maybe you’re over sensationalizing God’s presence.
2. Maybe your heart has hardened.
3. Maybe God just wants to draw you closer.

4. Maybe you need to make Him over your life.

Romans 10:9 (CSB) If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.