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Friday, August 15, 2008
Quiet time Recently listened to Don Moen's CD and CCC's Prophesy album. I really like both CDs! Don Moen's songs are great for intimate worship. Prophesy is a great album for praise. It must be the funkiest, grooviest praise album ever existed. I borrowed the Prophesy album from my ministry friend. ------- You know, i've been thinking. About the definition of quiet time. Many of us perhaps think that doing our 'quiet time' means something like this: 1. Praying in tongues 2. Praise and Worship 3. Read bible / devotional 4. Hearing from God 5. Praying in understanding - intercession for self and others I strongly believe in the above 5 things that they are important and we must practise them frequently during our quiet time. I also strongly believe that we must spend substantial time in order to consider having done our 'quiet time'. Something like 30minutes to 1 hour, or longer. As a young christian, i started out strong. Everyday, i can spend 1 hour very easily in God's presence. That went on for a few months. But as time goes by, i begin to feel guilty if i don't do the above during what i call my quiet time. i begin to feel that it is me not making enough effort to press in into God's presence. So eventually, at times i end up thinking that maybe i've sinned. Or i've become lukewarm. Is that true? I will ask myself. Am i really becoming lukewarm? Perhaps i've been lukewarm at certain times, yes indeed. But what about those times that i could just spend 2 hours listening to a praise and worship CD, staring into space just enjoying the music, sensing peace and thinking about God? Is that not spending time with God as well? . I then realised something. The fact that there is no fixed structure to what a 'quiet time' should entail. Yes, i was taught this during bible study lessons, so it's nothing new to me. But it is through personal EXPERIENCE that information becomes a REVELATION. Know what i mean? Anyway. That is what God has revealed to me just now. Even now while i'm typing this entry, i believe that i'm in the midst of my quiet time. I'm still in the midst of listening to the Prophesy album. I love it. It is very anointed. Psalms 23:2 says "He lets me rest in green meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams." In other words, when we enter into fellowship with God through quiet time, there are times when God will simply let us rest in green meadows. He will lead us to peaceful streams. Simply put, it is not spiritual warfare all the time. :) So. Go in peace and serve the Lord your God. Labels: revelation 12:52 PM
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