Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "home". We'll be looking at one verse this time for the concept that we're looking at.

2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. KJV

This Greek word is "endemeo". Strong's Concordance says: to be in one's own country, i.e. home. Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: to be among one's own people, dwell in one's own country, stay at home. Vine's Expository Dictionary adds: one who is in his own place or land. This is speaking of this life now in the body, but there is a greater Truth that we as born again believers have. Even though in this life we are bound to these human bodies as we await the time when we will exchange these bodies for a new 'resurrection body', we are, in the spiritual realm, seated IN HIM.

Ephesians 2:6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: KJV

So we are NOT bound to the limits of these natural bodies when we spend time in His presence! We have access to this secret place of His presence any time that we decide to go there! We are IN this world, but not OF this world! What a tremendous blessing it is to know that He has given us His Word to speak to things, situations and circumstances and change them through faith in His Word! TAYA Gaukrodger mentions this in her song "Sorry To Grieve You God" where she says "I am at home in Your presence". I really love that concept! 

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!