SPENDING TIME WITH GOD

Hi there, May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. It’s nearly Christmas and we have to bear in mind that Jesus is the only reason for the season. How was your week by the way? Mine was great and fruitful by the Grace of God. Here goes the Word for this week.

The Word for this weekend is titled, 'Spending time with God.' Someone will ask, 'how do you spend time with God?' I’ll simply say you can spend good and quality time with God by doing your Quiet Time. Well this weekend’s blog is inspired by a book I started reading earlier this week. It is called ‘Quiet Time’ by Bishop Dag Heward-Mills. A Quiet Time simply means being deliberate about spending time with God alone. From reading this book I’ve realised that having your Quiet Time is very important and it will help you to develop a closer relationship with God.

Mark 1:35 says that “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” (NIV)
From this verse we can see that Jesus spent some time alone with God too so it is necessary to commit to doing our Quiet Time by setting time aside and spending some alone time with God.

The question is 'how do you do your quiet time?' It is very simple all you need is a willing heart, a suitable and quiet place, a bible, music, a note book and pen.
You can do your Quiet Time by praying to God, reading the Bible and meditating on the verses you have read as well listening to some worship songs and making notes of the revelations you get from your Quiet Time. During your Quiet Time, make sure you have a particular time that you just enjoy God’s presence and listen to what He has for you.

Having your Quiet Time daily is important because

• It helps us to draw closer to God and God closer to us.
• It helps to develop an intimate relationship with God.
• It enables us to feed our Spirit man
• It helps us to increase our knowledge of the scriptures                                                              

Matthew 6:6 Says, “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (NIV)

Hope you have been blessed. What I’m going to leave you with today is that, make up your mind to start doing your Quiet Time if you’ve not been doing so already and you’ll see the difference it will make in your life. 

Remember to go in your closet and speak to your father in heaven. Enjoy the rest of the week and have a great week ahead. Don’t forget to share this with your loved ones. Stay blessed and have a blessed Christmas.

WHAT DO YOU TREASURE MOST?

Happy Saturday guys, hope you’re doing great and we made God the centre of our decisions throughout the week. The Word for this weekend is titled ‘What do you treasure most?’ and the verse is Matthew 6:21 which says "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (KJV)

So what does treasure mean? The word treasure is a verb that means to keep carefully, to cherish, to hold dear, to place great value on, to set great store by and to value greatly.

So basically this verse means that the things we value greatly or cherish in life is where our heart is. So there will be a different attitude towards what we treasure in our everyday lives because we become very passionate about these things.  In other words we can say that the things we spend more time on or the things we prioritise in life are the things we really treasure.

HOW CAN WE APPLY THIS VERSE IN OUR LIVES?

• We can apply this verse by reassessing and prioritising the things we hold dear to our hearts in our life.  When it comes to our Christian life we can do the following:
• We have to treasure the time we spend with God in our Quiet Time
•  We have to treasure our Prayer life
• We have to treasure the Word of God and the little things like fellowshipping with other Christians.
•  We have to treasure going to church
•  We treasure the upkeep of our various churches by joining a ministry in church to minister the love of God to others.
• We have to be available when it comes to outreaching and evangelism.

  And the list goes on and on….                             

Matthew 6:19-20 says that "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.” (NIV)

So ask yourself! What do you really treasure? Are you storing treasure for yourself in heaven or on earth? Think about this throughout the week ahead and aim to store treasures in heaven because your treasure in heaven will be untouchable as they cannot be stolen by thieves.

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Have a blessed week ahead and remember that Jesus is the real reason for this festive season. Thank you for reading this post.

MAKING GOD THE CENTRE OF OUR DECISIONS AND PLANS

Hello lovely readers and followers, how was your week? Hope it wasn’t too stressful. My week was good by the Grace of God. Wow!!! I can’t believe its December already. It’s nearly Christmas. Well, we serve a great and mighty God. It is amazing how this year has just flown by but then ask yourself, ‘could you have made it without God?’  My answer to that question is ‘No, Not at all.’ My dear reader, I want you to take a few minutes to thank God for His Grace upon your life. Indeed He deserves the highest praise.

Well, here goes the Word for this week. The Word for this week is taken from Psalms 127:1 and it states that “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards watch in vain.”(NIV)  I used the verse above for my quiet time on Thursday.  After reading the verse I was listening to a song called “This is your house” by Don Moen, then the Holy Spirit whispered to me and asked, ‘what is the point of you singing this song when you don’t even bother to invite God when it comes to making decision of this house?’

From Psalms 127:1 I’ve realised that it is very easy to get carried away and make decision without consulting or informing God about your plans. However the only reasons why the decisions we make work according to plan is because God had already planned for it happen. So just imagine involving God and making him the centre of our decision making. He would guide us and the plan will even work beyond expectations. My lesson from this verse is to make God the centre of my day to day decision making because I cannot do anything without His approval. For it is better to build with God than to build in vain. Proverbs 16:8 gives us an assurance that if you “Commit to the Lord in whatever you do, he will establish your plans.”(NIV)

So next time you want to make a decision about your job, relationship, friendship, university, and other important issues regarding your life, STOP and speak to the father. Ask Him to be the centre of your decision and ask Him to show you the right way and path.

God bless you for spending time to read this and remember that any questions or comments regarding this post are welcome. Just in case you want to listen to Don Moen's "This is your house", please click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3CkDwZ0uv0