Walking with God was never meant to be a once-a-week event—it’s an everyday, moment-to-moment life of constant contact. In this Light on Life teaching, we build on the responsive life and show why responsiveness requires real-time connection: asking before you move, obeying when He speaks, lifting others in prayer, and seeking Him with your whole heart. We anchor the possibility of constant contact in Isaiah 26:3—learning to “lean” our mind on the Lord for perfect peace—and we trace what constant contact produces: increased awareness of God’s presence, wells that become rivers, and a prayer life that stays engaged. Finally, we talk about protecting your progress—because distraction is one of the enemy’s favorite devices, and contact doesn’t drift into your life… you choose it. How to Maintain Constant Contact With Our Awesome God. That’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

This Week: Constant contact with God is possible—lean your mind on Him, stay engaged in prayer, and choose the good part over distraction.

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Accept the Challenge

Each week’s podcast contains a call to action. The Word of God will not produce in your life unless you put into operation.
This weeks call is:

Choose the Good Part.

This week, choose responsiveness over routine.

This week, practice real-time contact—lean your mind on God, and keep turning your attention back to Jesus all day long.

Remember this: Contact doesn’t drift into your life—you choose it.

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Each week’s podcast also contains a question designed to encourage testimony. Testimony is vital to a believers life. We overcome by it (Rev. 12:11).
This week’s question is:

Question: When do you notice your awareness of God drifting most—busy schedules, mental noise, problem-solving, or distractions that pull you off “the good part”?

Share: What’s one simple way you’re going to “lean your mind on God” this week—praying under your breath, asking before you move, or turning your attention back to Jesus in the moment?

Remember: We grow stronger together—contact doesn’t drift into your life… you choose it.

About Emery

Emery committed his life to the Lord Jesus Christ over 49 years ago and has served as both a full-time pastor and an itinerant minister. Both he and his wife Sharon of 44 years emphasize personal growth and development through the Word of God. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is both the focus and the hallmark of their mission. Read more about them here.

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Podcast Notes:

• Well again welcome.
• Let’s pray.

Father God, thank you for fellowship. Thank you that we have the opportunity to walk with you every day. You designed our lives to be one of continual contact with you. We’re so excited about this! Help us to know this way by showing the way. We give you the praise for this in advance in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Constant Contact with God: Introducing the Concept

• In a previous podcast, we talked about the responsive life.
• We said walking with God is not a once-a-week event — it’s an every day reality.
• And “The Way” is not a label you wear — it’s a path you walk.
• We learned four things:
• Ask before you move.
• Obey when He speaks.
• Lift others when He brings them to mind.
• Seek Him with your whole heart.
• In that podcast, we saw that truth must be directed — and direction comes by asking.
• We saw that your future is hidden inside your response.
• And we said the responsive life is not dramatic — it’s a daily seeking life.
• But here’s the next question.
• How do we live that way continually?
• You cannot respond to someone you are not connected to in real time.
• Responsiveness requires contact.
• If asking matters, how do we stay in a place where we keep on asking?
• If obedience matters, how do we keep our hearts tuned enough to hear?
• If lifting others requires awareness, how do we stay tuned in?
• In other words — how do we maintain real-time connection with our awesome God?
• Because the goal isn’t occasional responsiveness — it’s ongoing awareness.
• Not hearing Him once in a while — but living aware of Him all the time.
• That life is available.
• That is what God desires for His kids.
• And that’s where we’re headed next.

Constant Contact with God: Is It Possible?

• So, the first thing we need to establish is the possibility of constant contact.
• We’ve already seen that God segmented the world into 24 hour days.
• He did that so He could show you grace and mercy and who He is every day.
• Now, we are not just talking about a 24 hour period, we are talking about moment to moment contact.

Isaiah 26:3 (ESV) — 3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

• Having a mind stayed on God is possible according to this verse.
• The NASB has it as this.

Isaiah 26:3 (NASB 2020) — 3 “The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.

• A mind stayed on God is being steadfast of mind.
• The Hebrew word ’steadfast’ carries meanings like to prop, to lean upon, to uphold.
• You could translate this as You keep in him in perfect peace whose mind leans on God.
• Leaning on a wall means contact with the wall.
• The result of the mind leaning on God is peace.
• This peace won’t be realized to its max potential if your attention remains leaned on yourself, or is propped on your difficulties.
• Distractions are one of the devils devices meant to cause you to lean away from the Lord.
• With that in tow, let’s look at the Hebrew word for ‘mind.’
• You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you.
• The word ‘mind’ here is not the normal word used to describe the mental facilities.
• The Spirit-Filled Study Bible notes that this word can refer to “creative imagination.”¹
• That’s the place where plans are formed and ideas take shape.
• If you lean upon the Lord at that level, peace follows.
• If not, there’s problems in River City.
• So the real issue isn’t whether it’s possible — it’s whether we will lean.
• Smith Wigglesworth shared the following encounter.

I knew a believer whose job was to carry bags of coal. He had been in bed three weeks away from his work. I showed him Romans 7:25: “I thank God; through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.” I said, “Keep your mind on God and go to work, shouting victory.” He did, and the first day he was able to carry a hundred bags, his mind stayed on God and kept in peace. “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble” (Ps. 119:165). If your peace is disturbed, there is something wrong. Apply the blood of Jesus, and keep your mind stayed upon Jehovah, where “hearts are fully blessed, finding as He promised, perfect peace and rest.” Keep your mind on God, gaining strength in Him day by day.²

• And with that thought, here is the Quote of the Day.

People look for shortcuts. The hack. The shortcut is a lie. The hack doesn’t get you there. If you want to take the easy road, it won’t take you where you want to be. To overcome obstacles and grow into the fulness of Jesus living through you, none of this happens by itself. It will not happen cutting corners, taking shortcuts, compromising, or looking for the easy way. There is no easy way. There is a broad way and a narrow way. Choose.³

• Now, Jesus is our example in how we should prize contact with God.
• The most grievous thing to Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane was this issue of contact.
• He knew about the crucifixion.
• He knew about His death, burial, and resurrection ahead of time.

Matthew 16:21 (NASB 2020) — 21 From that time Jesus began to point out to His disciples that it was necessary for Him to go to Jerusalem and to suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised up on the third day.

• He was about to bear the sin of the world, but the prospect of broken contact with God even for a moment was so grievous to Him that an angel had to come and strengthen Him just to get through it all.

Constant Contact with God: Spiritual Disciplines Are Relational

• You know what the spiritual disciplines are to build the strong Jesus life.
• And with that thought, here is the Illustration of the Day.
• Consider John Wesley.
• Before the great revival fires swept through England, before thousands gathered in the fields to hear him preach, Wesley was part of what critics mockingly called the “Holy Club” at Oxford.
• Why? Because he and a small group of men followed a disciplined schedule — daily Scripture reading, fixed hours of prayer, fasting twice a week, visiting prisoners, serving the poor.
• They were methodical about their devotion.
• That steady rhythm of ‘no excuse’ spiritual discipline shaped Wesley’s theology, sharpened his conviction, and prepared him for the Awakening that followed.
• The revival didn’t begin in the fields — it began in the quiet habits of prayer and the Word.
• So the scripture says.

Ephesians 6:18 (NASB 2020) — 18 With every prayer and request, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be alert with all perseverance and every request for all the saints,

• Here is the contact piece — it’s ‘in the Spirit.’
• ‘In the Spirit’ means in contact with the Spirit.
• This kind of living is intentional.
• Prayer is not something you do — it’s Someone you are with.
• ‘Call unto me and I will answer you’ [Jeremiah 33:3] is how prayer works.
• Reading the Bible is in the same vein.
• It’s not a daily task you check off, it’s the Most High God you encounter.

Mark 4:3–10 (NASB 2020) — 3 “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow; 4 as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8 Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.” 9 And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” 10 As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve disciples, began asking Him about the parables.

• The disciples heard the Word, then they began asking Him questions.
• That’s Bible reading done right.
• Spiritual disciplines are relational.
• It’s who you are with, not what you are doing off in the corner somewhere.
• God is the focus.

Constant Contact: God Focus and Problems

• We are by nature inquisitive and desiring to understand.
• Prayer goes up for people facing trials and in the back of their mind is the thought, ‘I wonder why they got into this?’
• We look for simple answers to complex problems.
• A great prayer warrior attended a set of Bible meetings some years ago in Oklahoma.
• This individual and her prayer group had marvelous results.
• If you didn’t want your prayer answered, don’t turn it into this group.
• Knowing the reputation of this prayer warrior, an inquirer asked this question.
• “When you are praying for people, how do you get in there and find out what the problem is and where they are missing it? How do you engage in prayer to locate the problem?”
• This is how the prayer warrior responded — Mark this answer down, it will change your life.

You don’t go into prayer to look for the problem, you go in there to look for the answer. You go in looking for Jesus. In Him you see whatever you need to see for that situation.

• Don’t go looking for the problem — look for Jesus.
• This changed me.
• All of you know I am a line upon line Bible teacher.
• When the lines get mixed up and out of order I have a tendency to notice that.
• Then, there is the proving out part.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NASB 2020) — 21 but examine everything; hold firmly to that which is good,

• So when a minister happens to get over to an area that I have a little bit of understanding in and maybe they don’t so much, I will say to Sharon, ‘that’s not right.’
• Then I will explain to her what is right.
• Embarrassingly, I’ve done this several times.
• Now, instead of looking for the problem, I look for Jesus.
• Instead of turning to a human being and sharing, I lift that minister up to God and say ‘Lord give this person a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you concerning this truth.
• That’s what living connected looks like.
• Instead of looking for the problem, look for Jesus.

Constant Contact: Praying at All Times

• Now, the Word of God teaches us that we are to pray at all times.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NASB 2020) — 17 pray without ceasing,

• And with that thought, here is the Definition of the Day.
• The words ‘without ceasing’ is one word in the Greek and it means constantly.
• ‘Constantly’ pertains to not ceasing from some continuous activity—‘not ceasing, not stopping, unceasingly, continuously.’⁴
• Many have dismissed the truth of this verse by being overly-precise.
• They think, ‘No one can pray without ceasing, every minute of every day.’
• But that’s not what the Greek implies.
• The thought is ongoing awareness — a life that stays engaged.
• So, how do you apply this?
• You’re walking down the aisle in the grocery store and you are praying in the Spirit under your breath.
• You’re cooking a meal in the kitchen and you are lifting up someone to God.
• Anxiety barks at you and you cast your care.
• You are training yourself to live the constant contact life.
• The benefits of the Way of God are so many that time would fail us if we endeavored to cover even most of them.
• Let’s highlight just a few.

What Constant Contact Produces: Increased Awareness of God’s Presence

• Recall the God and Moses conversation about the Presence.
• It went something like this:
• Moses: “You gave me a job to bring this people out of Egypt but you haven’t given me the stuff. Who is going with me?”
• God: “I’m not going.”
• Moses: “What do you mean you’re not going? If you’re not going, I am out of here! After all, these are your folks.”
• God: “My Presence will go with you.”
• This encounter is in Exodus thirty-three.
• The focal part is.

Exodus 33:14 (NASB 2020) — 14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”

• Moses understood something.
• The job didn’t matter without the Presence.
• The assignment doesn’t matter without the Presence.
• He is who we want!
• One of the great outcomes of staying in constant contact with God is an increased awareness of His nearness.
• This consciousness decreases with distance.
• Understand, the New Covenant removes the barrier — not the need for attentiveness.
• The marvel of what God did through Jesus is that God now is as near to you as the breath of your mouth because He came to live in you.

1 John 4:4 (NASB 2020) — 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

• Moses did not have God in Him.
• He had to get God to go with Him.
• Now, here’s the truth.
• Whether you feel Him or not is irrelevant — He is in you.
• But as constant contact becomes your mantra, you will become tangibly aware of His Presence — a presence that has always been resident.

Acts 1:8 (NASB 2020) — 8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth.”

• The Presence of God in you and on you is a dimension deeper than Moses ever experienced.
• Moses experienced Presence by proximity.

Exodus 34:30 (NASB 2020) — 30 So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to approach him.

• As you walk with Him continually, praying constantly, you will step into the place Jesus died for you to possess.
• Your awareness will catch up to His reality.
• And the One who said, “I will never leave you,” will become the most dominant consciousness in your life.

What Constant Contact Produces: Wells That Turn Into Rivers

• So, constant contact produces increased awareness of God’s Presence.
• You will also step over into wells that turn into rivers just like Jesus promised.

John 7:37–38 (NASB 2020) — 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

• Notice, Jesus said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”
• You must come to Him even though He is in you.
• That’s contact.
• The urgency of thirst fuels the degree of contact.
• Smith Wigglesworth said,

‘He says He feeds the hungry with good things, but the satisfied He sends away empty. If you want to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the grace of God, get hungry enough to be fed, be thirsty enough to cry, be broken enough you cannot have anything in the world without He comes Himself.⁵

• Jesus said to the woman at the well.

John 4:13–14 (ESV) — 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

• The two passages are connected yet different.
• One speaks of water as rivers flowing out of you.
• The other of water that wells up in you.
• It’s the same water but the well is for your personal growth.
• The rivers are for ministry to others.
• If your hearts desire is to see Jesus, to see His plan come through your life, then drink often.
• This drinking is driven by the desire to know God.
• It’s asking the Lord to give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation so that you might know Him.
• It’s feeding on the Word, for this same reason: passion to walk in God’s Way.
• It’s asking God questions because you must have Him in personal experience.
• When you are thirsty to know God, there will be times when your insides will well up.
• That’s what Jesus said.
• The result of this welling in you is the God-kind of life.
• The Greek word used to describe this welling up in you means to leap up, bubble up, spring up, or gush up.
• For lack of a better word, it feels like a swelling within your spirit.
• ‘Welling up’ carries the idea of something leaping or springing up — it’s the same word family used in Acts 3:8 when the healed man leaped at the Beautiful Gate.
• This continual welling up inside your being ends up flowing out of you to others.
• Water always finds the way.
• Prayer is one of the places these rivers flow as you pray for all men per the mind of God.

1 Timothy 2:1–4 (NASB 2020) — 1 First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made in behalf of all people, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• What a blessing this living water is — not stagnant, not stored, but springing and flowing.
• Once you taste of the waters of the Spirit, you will be ruined forever.

Constant Contact: Protecting Your Progress

• So now that you’re walking with God, drinking, flowing and having awareness of His Presence, how do you keep the sacred ground you’ve gained?
• Know that every fresh move of God in your life will be contested—not always by persecution, but by distraction.

Mark 4:14 (ESV) — 14 The sower sows the word.

• Jesus then describes the different kinds of soil that won’t produce.
• There is much in here we can talk about but notice particularly verse eighteen.

Mark 4:18–19 (ESV) — 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

• Did you hear the last part, ‘the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful?’
• Desires for other things are dangerous distractions.
• Our world is full of them.
• What’s the answer?
• Conscious commitments protect contact.
• Jesus pointed out the dangers in Luke ten.

Luke 10:38–42 (NASB 2020) — 38 Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who was also seated at the Lord’s feet, and was listening to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do the serving by myself? Then tell her to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; 42 but only one thing is necessary; for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”

• To maintain constant contact with God, choose the good part.
• Without intentionality, we open ourselves up to drift.
• So, read the Word with intention.
• Corral desires.
• Say no, to mental drift.
• Keep your mind focused on God.
• Contact doesn’t drift into your life—you choose it.

Putting Constant Contact Into Motion

• So what are some practical ways we can apply the truths we heard today?
• One: Lean on purpose.
• When your mind starts propping itself on problems, consciously “lean” it back onto God (Isaiah 26:3).
• Two: Ask before you move.
• Turn decisions—small and big—into invitations for direction.
• Pray in the moment: Whisper prayer while driving, shopping, working, cooking—train ongoing awareness.
• Three: Read relationally.
• Don’t just read the Word—ask Jesus questions like the disciples did (Mark 4:10).
• Four: Look for Jesus first.
• In prayer, don’t hunt the problem—seek the Answer.
• Five: Protect progress.
• Identify your top distractions and make conscious commitments to choose the good part (Luke 10:42).
• If this teaching helped you, share it with a friend who’s been feeling spiritually distracted. And if you want to grow deeper, commit to one “constant contact” habit this week—praying under your breath, asking before you move, or reading the Word with questions. Stay with us on the Light on Life Podcast as we keep walking the Jesus way—together.

Now Father God thank you for the truth of your Word. Help us to see and know other ways whereby we might be always in contact with you. We thank you for showing us these areas in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

• How to Maintain Constant Contact With Our Awesome God.
• You guys have a great God week and we will see you next time for another edition of Light on Life.

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