Intentional Time With The Lord
There was a woman, who once found herself in a place of reaching and reading the Bible every so often. Inside she was feeling dry, thirsty, seeking more to this life. But inside she felt hollow and empty. Longing for something she didn’t understand.
She wasn’t intentional about being with the Lord, only on Sundays and holidays.
As she began to serve, inside she still had this “missing” part of her deep within. This lady continued to serve with a smile only to brush off that “missing” piece inside. Not only was it being ignored, it was harming her more and more the more she neglected that “piece”.
Until one day, a life shift happened and change was happening. Life began to unfold in front of her eyes and her emotions she held deep within, all bursted out uncontrollably. She had no idea how to explain or where any of this was coming from. Her bible began to be opened daily, read little passages at a time, soaking herself in bile studies and learning more and more of this God she believes in.
A veil was then lifted. She could see that “missing” piece inside of her was being intentional with God. Spending time with Him daily, seeking Him daily. Longing more and more of Him daily. It was only then she realized having Intentional time with the Lord is vitally important in our lives. She saw the Father, not through the worlds lens that was painted, but through the daughters lens of a king, one who adores, delights, loves, and seeks her Father. Having this changed her life, not wanting to leave this place but find this place daily.
That woman…. was me.
Oh dear friend, if I were right there next to you, I’d tell you I get it. I do. I get the hard waking up earlier to read the Bible times. The nursing babies times. The marriage on the line not wanting to even read the word kind of season. The season of feeling depleted, worn out, defeated, burnt out on the “religion” and serving with little to no appreciation. I see the storms raging and you feel you just can’t anymore. I get it. I hear you. If I were to sit with you right now, I’d tell you that there is more to this life. More than depression, more than losing the battle to marriage, more to feeling worn out and depleted. More than just reading the Bible and you feeling you aren’t receiving anything.
It begins with spending time with the Lord. Abiding in Him. Seeking Him while he may be found, searching for his presence. It’s sitting with Him, listening when he speaks, staying quiet, waiting, sharing your heart however that feels and looks.
We don’t have to come to him “clean” or “perfect” or even “hiding” the mess that has been done. He knows. Eve messed up to sis, she hid and covered herself in leaves, Genesis 3:7. She was afraid of God. Why? Because she didn’t know God. She didn’t know that he was full of compassion, mercy, forgiveness not wanting his children to hide but come out of the hiding and ask for forgiveness of their sin and repent.
Sis, being intentional with our time with the Lord isn’t looking at this as a task to complete. Nor a “check off the box” thing. This is actually really getting to sit with the very creator who created your very life and asking him “how do you see me, show me.” It is dying to yourself to know more of the Father. It is setting time aside daily for you and Him. As you abide in Him, and His Word everyday, you begin to build a relationship that you never thought you’d have with the Father. And it’s the best to have! It grows from there on out.
Questions to Ponder:
- How do you see your time with the Lord? (be honest sis, this is how we can get corrected with grace, and right)
- How would you say you spend time with the Father? Once Daily? All Day? Once A Week? Only On Sunday’s? (be honest sis)
- How would you describe your spiritual life?
- What does abiding look like in your life?
Verse to Ponder:
- John 15:4 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.”
- Matthew 22:37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
- Psalm 119:17-18 “Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.”
- Psalm 1:2 “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
- Jeremiah 29:13 “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”