5 Myths On Spending Time With God

I need help! I can’t find that right perfect time or place to spend time with God.

I need help! I missed church and can’t hear or see God until next Sunday.

Help!

I’ve heard countless of ways, seen numerous posts on creating a time for God. But if I am being honest. Each one felt such a burden. I felt heavy and like I was coming up short. Each time I’d try to meet God it was as if it had to be “Pinterest worthy” or “instagram worthy”. The lie I believed of experiencing God in a perfect place caused my heart to run after something that was inevitable.

Has spending time with God felt a burden? Or somehow made you feel your coming up short?

Maybe you have heard/seen many ways that looks it must be perfect, on spending your time with God.

One day I began to write in my journal and the Lord downloaded in me this “5 myths on spending time with God.” And I knew…. He was up to something.

Sis, we have to start breaking these myths off so we can begin to experience God in a mighty moving way!

The 5 Myths

Myth number 1: “I need to have the perfect picture spot.”
Though this seems “cute”, it isn’t true we need this to spend time with God. We don’t need to have the look like Susan on her instagram feed, searching for the expensive chair we either cannot afford or shouldn’t purchase. We don’t need all the highlighters she has, or even the cure Target decor that leads to nothing worthy for our time with God, but rather causes a distraction.

Not once in the Bible does it mention to have these things, but instead it tells us “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:33. Highlighters help. Pens help. the Bible is a need. A chair, a decor, any of these other things are not needed to spend your time with God.

Myth number 2: “I can’t spend time with God at home, it must be only at church.”
Sister, this myth isn’t true. Attending church is wonderful, when gathering in a large congregation and community, it is wonderful. But to spend time with God and experience Him only there, isn’t true.

Mark 1:35 begins by saying how Jesus spent time with God, His Father. “And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.” He would depart from others to be with Him alone. You can most definitely spend time with God in your home, car, workplace, anywhere you are, He is there. He is ever present.

Myth number 3: “My time with God must be silent and just me at all times.”
I laugh typing this, not at you but at me, because I was once there. I thought my time with God had to be dead silent not even hearing crickets. I once thought He wouldn’t speak unless it was silent and just me not around my kids. But this isn’t all true. He can most definitely speak through the noise. Even when kids are awake, sounds are being made, with Mickey Mouse playing in the background, He is still God and this is still your time with Him. You are setting the example to your children which then they begin to see God manifest in your life. We are being the very examples to them, showing our love for Christ. They implement what they see, are we setting that place?

In 1 Chronicles 16:11 it shares to us that we must “Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!” No matter if its silent or loud, just whispering the name of Jesus, praying in those times doing laundry or washing dishes, listening to the Bible on audio, we still are spending our time with God and planting our roots deep into Christ, dwelling in His Word richly. There are times we must step away from the noise undistracted to get our hearts in sync with the Lord, and there are times we seek Him in the noise. He will speak to us in all seasons we are in.

Myth number 4: “I need to be clean from sin before spending my time with God.”
Friend, I have heard this lie countless of times repeatedly. I believed it. We tend to find ourselves trying to come clean before coming to God and spending our time with Him. This is a myth. There is no way we can come clean before God unless we come to Jesus. He is the only way the truth and the life.

John 14:6 tells us “I am the way the truth and the life. Nobody can come through the father except through me.” What this means is, if we don’t first accept Jesus into our life, there is no way we can come to God, spending our time with Him. Jesus was and is the spotless lamb who was slain to make a way for us to come to the Father too. So next time this lie creeps in and you have already accepted Jesus into your life, take this thought captive and take it to christ. Call Christ’s name and remind yourself you are covered by the blood of Jesus and therefore, you have access to the Father too.

Myth number 5: “I need to fit God in my schedule to have the perfect time to spend with Him.”
My plate was full and overloaded. I couldn’t seem to have found the “time”. Guilt came in and left me feeling some type of way. I felt I shouldn’t come to Him anymore after the guilt stayed. But God…. He swept the lie and gently spoke to me this “it isn’t to fit me into your schedule but your schedule to fit around me.” Goodness what a convicting way to see it. We can’t let the schedule come first but rather God be first.

Joshua 1:8 says “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” No matter what time of the day, we are to mediate on it day and night, reading it, memorizing it, chewing on what we’ve read through the day. Doing so then replaces the things that is sitting on the throne of our hearts to be replaced with God–in whom should be the very one sitting on the throne of our hearts.

May we continue to walk in grace, not allowing the myths this world has painted, to take root in our hearts but rather, lean on truth clinging on truth and holding fast to truth.