Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called "today", lest any one of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as in the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on Him in truth.
Do we doubt when He IS there?
Children bring us pleasure without doing anything at all (sleeping, etc.) I believe that our Father is the same way in the feelings toward us. Look at Creation, and you know He is near.
If we can believe in the phone, fax machines, computers, email, slow cooker, the chair under us, etc, etc. and walk out of the room, that they will work-WHY can't we believe that our Father in Heaven is that way?!-that HE is the Core (the chair under us) all of the time. He is as full time as breathing, and our BELIEVING must be as full time as breathing.
Just as the physically blind or poor-sighted person has to learn ways to "see" so we also have to develop ways to "see" the Almighty God. He has given us guidance from scripture and from the world around us. But it is up to each of us to choose the frames, obtain the correct lenses that WE each need, remember where we put them and set them on our eyes in order to "see" Him and the spiritual realm we are to be living in as Christians.
Does anyone make you angry? NO, not one person or thing, or animal, makes you angry; you choose to be angry; it is our choice to "be" or "feel" the way we do. Does anyone truly make you happy? NO, you choose to be happy. There is no one making you do anything; only you can decide how you act and feel. Act and think they way you want to feel. (think on this example, our children do not make us angry or joyful, it is what they do that causes us to react the way we do, but in it's true reality, even the event did not "make" or "cause" by definition, our minds chose to react the way we do).
The Almighty wants our whole being-He delights in "ME"!