God is with you. So what exactly is the problem? What exactly is the problem with the finances, with the health, with this or that situation if you know God is with you? This simple truth can revolutionize how you approach every challenge you face.

The Evidence That God Is with You

How do we know God is with you? His Word tells us clearly:

• Luke 17:21: Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you”
• 1 Corinthians 3:16: “You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God and God himself is present in you”
• 1 John 4:13: “This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his spirit”

There are twenty more verses that tell you God is with you, that He’ll never leave you or forsake you. This isn’t visitation, this is habitation. We abide in Christ, Christ abides in us. So if we know this to be true, what exactly is the problem?

You Are God’s Habitation

You are a habitation of God. He’s not an uncle coming to visit. He came in and came to stay. He’s not leaving. Somewhere along the line, we’re going to have to get used to the fact that our life is all about Him being with us all the time.

Because God is with me, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Because God is with me, I will never be shaken. Being shaken, nervous, anxious, stressed out, flipping out, or frustrated? That’s just a bad habit. It’s a worldly habit you’ve grown accustomed to, but it’s not actually needed.

2 Corinthians 12:9 says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness.” His grace is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in your weakness.

The Truth About Who Provides Your Success

I see a lot of Christian wealth influencers who like to quote Deuteronomy 8:18: “Remember the Lord your God, who gave you the power to get wealth.” But when you read that verse, you should also read Deuteronomy 8:17: “You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.'”

That’s a more likely scenario. You saying to yourself, “God didn’t give me my big team. I earned it. I did it. I did the work.” Deuteronomy 8:18 is actually a correction to that thinking.

John 3:27 says there is nothing we receive unless it’s from the Father. James 1:17 says the Heavenly Father is responsible for all good and perfect gifts. Anything we receive is actually from our Heavenly Father.

Our struggle is saying to ourselves, “My power, the strength of my hands, it’s up to me. Hustle, grind, baby.” That’s hustle culture. But when we step into understanding that His power is made perfect in our weakness, we realize: “Lord, I don’t know how to accomplish this calling you gave me. I can’t do it by myself. Oh wait, I’m not by myself.”

We’re Not Praying for Him to Come

We’re not praying, “Holy Spirit, come. Come, Holy Spirit, wherever you are.” We’re not praying to God, we’re praying with God. He’s with us.

Imagine you’re in middle school and you have an older, unstoppable, powerful, and strong brother. Would you walk around afraid? If someone threatened you, would you panic? No, you’d say, “You may not know this, but you didn’t realize who my brother was before you threatened me.”

The difference is, on the playground you might get caught when your brother’s somewhere else. You can’t get caught without our Heavenly Father being with you. That’s good news.

We’re not saying, “Holy Spirit, come.” We’re saying, “Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you’re here. Thank you, God, that you’re here.” We’re proclaiming His presence. We’re a people of proclamation.

Seeking God When He Never Leaves

How do we seek the Lord when He never leaves us or forsakes us? You seek Him in every single situation you encounter with joy.

We know the power of our circumstances. We forget the power of our God. In “The House of David” on Amazon Prime, there’s a scene where Jonathan tells David he can’t beat Goliath because he’s way bigger and stronger. David responds, “Am I the only one that remembers the stories of old? Am I the only one that remembers the power of God?”

Everyone around you knows the power of their circumstances. They know the power of the diagnosis, the bank account, their struggles. They’re fixated on the problem, not on Him. They didn’t seek first the kingdom of God. They sought first the kingdom of Bank of America or Cleveland Clinic.

We have to remember: He’s with us all the time. This situation wasn’t a surprise to Him. He wasn’t asleep on the job. He’s with us in every single situation. We just have to remember that.

What Jesus Did in Every Situation

Jesus would say, “I only do what the Father is doing, and I only say what the Father is saying.” What does that mean? In every situation, He said to the Father, “So how do you see this? What are we doing about this?”

What if we started doing that? What if every situation that popped up, we started asking different questions: “Lord, how do you see this? Lord, what are we doing about this?”

I’ve had very large circumstances show up in my life. The old me would have freaked out and been a mess. Instead, I step back and ask, “Lord, what are we doing about this?” Multiple times I’ve gotten, “Nothing.”

I try to explain it to Him: “God, this one’s serious. Look what they’re asking for. I mean, I gotta do something. What am I doing about this?” “Nothing. We’re doing nothing about it.”

Those situations that would have been devastating to me in the past, when He tells me we’re doing nothing about them, went away. They just disappeared. People who knew about these situations would reach out and ask, “How’d that thing go?” I’d say, “I don’t know. It just kind of disappeared.”

Walking by Faith vs. Walking by Sight

We either walk by faith or we walk by sight. Most of us walk by sight and logic. It’s logical to respond to every situation in worldly ways. That’s not how He operates.

There’s a king in the Old Testament who’s about to have a big battle. He hires a hundred thousand soldiers. God tells him, “Send those soldiers back or I’m going to have you lose.” The king protests, “I already paid for them!” God responds, “Send them back. I don’t want you believing that your soldiers won you the battle.” He sends them back and wins.

When Abraham’s nephew was stolen by five kings, Abraham and his ragtag band conquered the five kingdoms and took all their loot. The kings came to Abraham and said, “Keep the money, jewels, and riches, but please give us our people back.” Abraham gave it all back, saying, “I don’t want anyone to think I became abundant through you guys. It’s God who gave me my abundance.”

A Modern-Day Miracle Story

Let me share a breakthrough story from my partner Dion Zelle. He was working a deal with a billion-dollar insurance company and needed to put together about a hundred pages of detailed documents by 5 PM the next day.

He told his wife, “If I work all night without sleep, I should be able to get it done by five, but it’s going to be difficult.” As he went to start, he heard from the Lord: “Get some sleep.”

“But Lord, I gotta do this.” “Do you trust me?”

So he went to sleep. When he got up super early to work on it, he heard, “Don’t work on it.” “Lord, they need it by 5 PM.” “Do you trust me? Read a book.”

Dion spent the day on the couch reading a book, stressed out but trusting. His wife asked what he was doing. “Lord’s got me reading a book.”

At 4 PM, with one hour left and absolutely no chance of completing the report, he got a call from the attorneys: “I’m so sorry, but we’re going in a different direction. We’re not going to need that report for a couple weeks.”

A week later, they called again: “By the way, we’re not going to need it at all.”

God knew. You wouldn’t have known that, but God did.

Maybe God Has a Different Solution

Maybe that situation you’re so focused on, that you’re fixated on, that you’re seeking first, maybe God has a different alternative solution to that problem. You just have to listen to Him.

If God is with you, what really is the problem? It’s not a problem to Him, and it’s not a surprise. Actually, He’s using it to upgrade you. He’s using it to help you grow into the person able to take over the territory He’s calling you to take.

He is not leaving. We just have to get used to that. We live like God is not here, like He’s far off and probably busy. “Why would He even listen to me anyway?” We think we have to persuade Him to show up.

But the truth is, God is with you. So what exactly is the problem?