What is the active presence of the Spirit of God in our time?

The Spirit of God is just as active now as He was during the writing of the Old and New Testament. God is unchanging and His spirit is available to us as often as we are open to it. Th spiritual realm is always open to us; we are just the ones that always shut the gate. God's Spirit gets quenched in our North American culture because we simply don't believe that God will work. Most theists these days seem to act more like deists and this is true of myself more often than not. If we want to feel God's presence, we can! If we are Christians, we know God's presence is always with us because He has promised that. It is just a matter of us being aware of his presence. This is what's referred to as the "divine presence and apparent absence". Sometimes the Spirit seems to depart from us and we really do need to walk by faith and not site. We can get through these tough times by believing what we know: that God is always with us and will never leave us or forsake us.