I have noticed that there is an ebb and flow of the Spirit’s presence in my life. I say this not as a criticism of our merciful Savior, for He does all things well.
But I have observed that after a wonderful welling up of His presence within me, His Spirit subsides. Of course, it is I that backs out of the light that He shines. The rays of understanding engulf me, and then, I must back away a bit. I realize that it is “line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.”
It is as if this old wine skin of my mind and body cannot stand the constant pressure of the new wine, so I recede a bit. It’s like being in the heavenlies for a while, and then needing to return to the earth’s atmosphere where I may breathe again the accustomed mixture of gases suitable for my current mortal tabernacle. I ponder this ebb and flow of His Spirit, or rather, my drifting away from His rarefied heavenly atmosphere.
I recall passages of scriptures describing what happens to his children who abide in him and not ebb and flow, but rather stay in him.
Our Savior said much about the abiding that we are to maintain. He believes that it is possible and necessary for us to have His Spirit remain, stay, dwell, and continue in our vessels.
Oh, how we need our new spiritual bodies that He has promised us! He knows our frailties, our weaknesses, and our faults. But He has promised us that He would raise us up at the end of this earth age. If we are alive upon His return, He will change us, as “mortality is swallowed up” by our new spiritual body. If we expire before He returns, He will change us when He sweeps down to earth. We are coming back with Him, our Captain and leader. The ebb and flow will be no more, for we will be full of His Spirit. A glorious time is coming. Now we must wait until our time. “If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come” (Job 14:14). Kenneth Wayne Hancock
(From a Journal entry, 3-29-19)
Immortality Road 
How true is your words. Just today, I prayed and wondered why I am not able to abide. I wish to stay in His presence longer, but I too, need the residing still.
One day, we’ll be able to stay. HalleluYAH.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this matter. I believe that this ebb and flow effect is part of Yah’s plan and His great mercy. For He knows that we don’t fully know how “to come in or go out.” Nice to hear from you! kwh
Amen!
Amen 🙏🤗
Beloved brother, I believe His Spirit remains, stays, dwells, and continues in our vessels, that the abiding is continuous. Our capacity to ever and always recognize and respond is hindered by our imperfectly shared nature of the one triune God’s divine, supernal nature this side of the heaven hereafter. In Scripture He states saliently that He shall never leave us nor forsake us, fail us nor forget us. I surmise that the latter is that which is your intended meaning. Perhaps, I am simply being obtuse.
Thank you, brother, for your comment. You put God’s omnipresence into focus. I agree with you. What I was trying to say is that we His sons and daughters sense that His presence is farther away than other times of sweet fellowship. One thinks of David’s yearnings for His presence and Daniel fasting, praying, knowing of the judgement being pronounced upon Judah. God allows the sufferings of Christ to come upon us for our spiritual growth, and it seems that He has “left the building.” During this duress, it seems that He is far from us. “Why has thou forsaken me?” comes to mind. I sense a kind of in and out, a near and far. I think that we could not in our present wineskin be able to contain His allness. So, “Here a little, there a little…”
Thanks again for commenting. Please share your testimony as He leads you. What all are you studying at present? Wayneman
Thank you, brother, for your comment. So true: He will never leave us nor forsake us. He is omnipresent. The apostle Paul said that we “live, move, and have our being in Him.” The preposition “in” is from the Greek word meaning “inside” something. We spiritually exist enfolded, then, inside of His magnificent presence. As always, it is we who ebbs and flows in that abiding. This is why Christs commands us, “Abide in Me, and I in you. The ebb and flow is how we sense His presence or lack thereof.