Spending Time With Jesus
This verse has spoken to me.
”Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.“. Psalm 143:8 ESV
Recently I have rediscovered my need to hear from God in the mornings. I have always been fairly disciplined in my devotional/abiding times.
I am a morning person so usually that time happens at the beginning of the day but lately it has felt stale or lacking. If I am not careful my prayer times can become an activity to check off. Now I believe that is better than not doing it and if you are going to be consistent it will take discipline.
Yet I yearn for it to be more.
I hear that same yearning in David. Let me hear you in the morning. May I experience your steadfast love. Show me the way I should go. I lift my soul to you.
David is not describing an activity to be checked off but an experience with God.
That is my desire.
”Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.“. Psalm 143:8 ESV
Recently I have rediscovered my need to hear from God in the mornings. I have always been fairly disciplined in my devotional/abiding times.
I am a morning person so usually that time happens at the beginning of the day but lately it has felt stale or lacking. If I am not careful my prayer times can become an activity to check off. Now I believe that is better than not doing it and if you are going to be consistent it will take discipline.
Yet I yearn for it to be more.
I hear that same yearning in David. Let me hear you in the morning. May I experience your steadfast love. Show me the way I should go. I lift my soul to you.
David is not describing an activity to be checked off but an experience with God.
That is my desire.
Questions
- How about you?
- How is your time with God?
- Are they consistent?
- Are they fresh or have they become mechanical and stale?
- When is the last time you experienced the presence of God in your devotional times?
- What can you do to make it fresh again?
- Is there something you could change like the time, place, or routine?
- Is there a sin that needs to be confessed?
- A relationship that needs to be reconciled?
- An offense that needs to be forgiven?
- Or do you just need to sit in his presence until he comes?
- Do you just need to rediscover worship?
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