The soul is restored through union with God. Leanne Payne More Quotes by Leanne Payne More Quotes From Leanne Payne It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality. Leanne Payne practice self reality If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity. Leanne Payne teaching spiritual healing Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person. Leanne Payne method keys listening Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening. Leanne Payne prayer views listening The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful. Leanne Payne effort discipline real While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him. Leanne Payne daughter mother sex True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him. Leanne Payne obedient listening
