FRIDAY AFTERNOON REFLECTION. STAYING PUT BEFORE GOD. If you want to get God’s vision for your life, you must want to hear it, you must withdraw to hear it, and then you must wait to hear it. To get God’s dream for my life, for my career, for my family, for my relationships, I’ve got to withdraw and then wait to hear from God. The Bible says in Habakkuk 2:1, “…I will station myself…” What does it mean to station yourself before God? It means stay put. It means, ‘Im not moving.’ It means, ‘I’m going to be still.’ ‘I’m going to sit here and I am not going to move until I hear from you, God.’ Hurry is the death of prayer. The reason you never hear God speak to you may be because you dont wait long enough, and God won’t speak to you as you run out the door. He wants you to care enough to listen. Most of the time we’re running so revved up, we cant get slowed down enough to tune into God. So, how do you slow down? You calm your mind by relaxing your body. You take deep breaths and you relax your muscles and let the tension drain out. The Bible says David sat before the Lord. Some people think you have to kneel in prayer and that is one of many appropriate ways to pray, but its not the most common way of praying in the Bible. The most common form of praying in the Bible is standing with your eyes wide open looking up to heaven and talking out loud to God. You dont have to have a speech. You don’t have to be poetic. You don’t even have to speak in complete sentences. Just talk to God like you’d would normally talk, but then, like any conversation, stop talking and listen – wait to hear from God. Now good people, are you prepared to stay put???
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:23:31 +0000
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