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How's your prayer life?
'Evening and morning and at noon I will pray ...' Psalm 55:17
Today, a few words of wisdom from people past and present on spending time with God. It's sad but true that when we're faced with a busy day our appointments with God are often the first things we cancel. I'm ashamed to say I spend much more time on an average day on Facebook that I do 'facedown' before God.
Allow yourself to be challenged by these wise words. 'If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have' (DL Moody). 'The management of time is the management of self; therefore, if you manage time with God, He will begin to manage you' (Jill Briscoe). 'The Word of God is demanding. It demands a stretch of time in our day; even though it be a very modest one; in which He is our only companion.
God will not put up with being fobbed off with prayers in telegram style and cut short like a troublesome visitor for whom we open the door just a crack to get rid of him as quickly as possible' (Helmut Thielicke). 'We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candour of childhood. If we do this, without a doubt God will quickly respond' (AW Tozer).
written by Bob Gass
'Evening and morning and at noon I will pray ...' Psalm 55:17
Today, a few words of wisdom from people past and present on spending time with God. It's sad but true that when we're faced with a busy day our appointments with God are often the first things we cancel. I'm ashamed to say I spend much more time on an average day on Facebook that I do 'facedown' before God.
Allow yourself to be challenged by these wise words. 'If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have' (DL Moody). 'The management of time is the management of self; therefore, if you manage time with God, He will begin to manage you' (Jill Briscoe). 'The Word of God is demanding. It demands a stretch of time in our day; even though it be a very modest one; in which He is our only companion.
God will not put up with being fobbed off with prayers in telegram style and cut short like a troublesome visitor for whom we open the door just a crack to get rid of him as quickly as possible' (Helmut Thielicke). 'We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candour of childhood. If we do this, without a doubt God will quickly respond' (AW Tozer).
written by Bob Gass
