Although God is always everywhere, scripture repeatedly refers to God’s localized presence; to specific individuals in specific times and places. For example, to Isaac (Gen 26.3), to Jacob (Gen 28.15), to Moses (Ex 3.5); and He appeared to Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego in the furnace (Dan 3.25).
This is always reassuring in a personal way. There is a call to fulfil, a task to perform, a challenge to face. And we need to know that God is with us. That presence brings wisdom and strength and the ability to persevere.
God is NOT otherwise absent, but He does seem to be more present to those people, at those times and in those places.
The apostle Paul states that the local Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 3.16). This verse is sometimes referred to in relation to the individual Christian, but the context would not allow this. This is a special promise of God’s localized presence in the local Church in the NT era, in which we live. And, we should look for signs of His presence, in particular in lives transformed by God; conversions; healings; addictions broken; character moulded, etc.