A home begins to change when God is treasured as its center, not treated as an occasional guest.
The Dwelling Place is a Christian prayer book for believers, couples, parents, and families who want to welcome God’s presence into the everyday life of the home. As the first volume in The House of His Presence PrayerScripts series, it draws from the testimony of Obed-Edom’s household and establishes the beginning of the journey: reverent welcome, wholehearted surrender, and daily allegiance to God.
This devotional prayer companion addresses the spiritual clutter that can leave God at the edges—crowded routines, divided priorities, neglected devotion, unresolved resistance, and the temptation to seek blessing without seeking the Giver. It does not offer a formula for creating a perfect spiritual atmosphere. Instead, it guides readers in dedicating ordinary spaces, habits, relationships, decisions, and responsibilities to the Lord with humility and faith.
Devotional Insights provide heart-level reflection for each prayer focus. PrayerPoints help you identify practical areas of welcome, repentance, consecration, and trust. Written PrayerScripts give you clear language for personal devotion, family intercession, and moments when you know your household needs God but struggle to find the words.
Making Room for God at Home
- Examine the priorities and routines that quietly compete for the center of household life
- Bring spiritual neglect, distraction, and hidden resistance before God honestly
- Dedicate relationships, rooms, schedules, and decisions to the Lord without superstition
- Use focused PrayerPoints to cultivate reverence, surrender, trust, and shared devotion
- Pray written PrayerScripts when beginning family prayer feels unfamiliar or difficult
- Welcome God Himself as the household’s treasure rather than pursuing His gifts alone
- Build a foundation for the sustained communion explored throughout the series
Begin The House of His Presence series by placing God at the center of the ordinary. Let The Dwelling Place help you offer your home to Him with open hands, then continue with Three Months of Nearness and learn to remain attentive to the One you have welcomed.
