Time for God

Time for God.

Everything we desire to do but cannot get ourselves to do begins with a sincere and heartfelt prayer to God acknowledging our inability to do it by our own and requesting that He empower us as a result.

I used to pray to God to give me time to fellowship with Him and His word before He made me understand that He has given me grace to do so, as it is His will for all men and that it was now my turn to act.

Finding time or Making out time to commune with God is a Sacrifice like many other endeavours God requires that we accomplish,not because they are easy or expedient but because they are needful, for our benefit and that He may be glorified through them.

Several times when I had hit the sack early because of an early morning meeting or to adequately prepare for an event, I would give God a litany of excuses of how He should understand the importance of what I had to do, as if He was not the one that made it possible for me to get the job in the first place.

We tend to relegate our communion with God to the background from time to time feigning some worthy venture as being a worthwhile excuse for doing so.
When I come back from waking up to go to the convenience to take a leak is the time God has hinted me about as being the best opportunity for me to have a quiet time with Him and His Word. 
It was a good enough time than having the alarm on my phone wake me and still be fighting to stay awake because by the time I got back to the bed I would be actually wide awake.

When God first dropped the thought into my mind I fought it for a while because I loved my sleep, but He soon reminded me of the oath king David made to Him that I would confess by faith from time to time as a daily routine I desired.

David in Psalm 132: 3 to 5, vowed to God saying,
3. “I will not enter my house or go to my bed, 
4. I will allow no sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 
5. till I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

I was opportune to come across a word of knowledge about Genesis 1:5, where after God called the light “day,” and the darkness “night,”the first day was recorded as being from that evening till the next morning. 
That revelation afforded me the opportunity to realise that my day doesn't start at daybreak but at night.

It made me understand as in Matthew 13:25 why the enemy of the souls of men was able to sow weeds among the wheat, while everyone slept. 
As people of God we need to communicate with God, pray and project our confessions for what we desire for the next day before it comes upon us.

In Proverbs 8:17 KJV, God emphatically said, "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me."

From that scripture I deduced that my love for God is equated with my seeking Him early, and after all it is to my benefit that I find Him that He may strengthen and prepare me for the day and tasks ahead.

There is a stark difference between fitting God into your plans and letting him put you into his plan.

Stop trying to fit God into your plans, instead let him put you into his plan and find out what His plan is and get with His programme.

The adage, "those who fail to plan, plan to fail"adequately captures the senario those who fail to fit their plan into God's will and His way end up facing along the way.

Are you having a hard time making out time for God? 

Begin by praying about it then seize the opportunity you have when you are idle, on transit, breaktime, your time for siesta, etc to commune with Him and you'll end up having a more fulfilled existence.

Shalom