-Do we more fully enter the presence of God when we pray and study and meditate?

You do not enter it. One grows in the presence of God as he goes along in life with his belief in God. You are already in 'the presence' if the nature of Christ be in you. Acknowledge that to yourself.

You stir up the gift of God.(2Peter 1:13).by focusing on that which is true, including what is true about you. Once you believe the truth, you begin to experience it and this is life!.(John 17:3), part of which involves taking time for meditation.

If your choice is a scripture to meditate and contemplate on, try to keep in mind whatever points of it are important to you.

-Regarding your statement, 'When God wants you, He knows how to get you. We don't come to God, He comes to us': How does all that square with James 4:8 where it talks about us first drawing close to God, then He will draw close to us?

Drawing close to the Creator occurs after He has 'come to you' and your mind is awakened. This usually occurs after a person has just about had enough of this upside down confusing life and trying to negotiate it all with the ego. It's enough to drive a person nuts. 

The ego in its endless quest to provide us with the best, even at the expense of everyone else's hurt, paves a pathway for us, a pathway fed from the collective consciousness.

Drawing closer to the Creator involves taking a new road, the one least traveled by the majority of humanity, a new highway is thus made clear when we walk the road of a higher consciousness. To draw close to God:.James 4:8.

-Do we believe on Emmanuel or the Father, or both?

Doesn't matter:.John 10:30; 12:44,45.

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