Emmanuel:

After a soul comes to know Jesus as Jehovah the Savior, he then should come to know Jesus as Emmanuel, "God with us." In Prov. 30:1 we read of a man named Ithiel, "God with me." This is an individual blessing. Every believer should understand the truth that he is indwell by the Spirit of God who will abide with him forever (John 14:16; 1 Cor. 6:19). The Lord Jesus Himself has also said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Heb. 13:5.
Emmanuel is a collective blessing. We sometimes sing of heaven as being "Emmanuel's land." While it is most happy to think of our being with Him, it is a different thought from His being with us. The Spirit dwells collectively in the assembly as well as individually in the believer (1 Cor. 3:16; Eph. 2:22). The Lord Jesus has promised His presence individually to each individual believer and also collectively to those who are gathered together unto His name (Matt. 18:20). When believers are gathered together on the ground of the assembly, even if there be but two or three present, they may take up the thought of Emmanuel's land. God is with them, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in the midst.
In a coming day when the Assyrian hordes sweep into the land of Judah, the cry is made, "The stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of Thy land, O Immanuel." Isa. 8:8. As gathered together in assembly, cannot the assembly take the same ground? It is His land. When the enemy moves in, how comforting to be privileged to realize that God is "with us.”
God's desire has always been to have His people together that He might dwell among them. "Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." Ex. 25:8. In the eternal state we read of new Jerusalem coming down from heaven to the earth. "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them." Rev. 21:3. His desire is the same for us now; may it be ours as well.