{"id":283,"date":"2008-08-13T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/archives\/283"},"modified":"2008-09-24T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T20:28:11","slug":"i-dont-have-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/i-dont-have-time\/","title":{"rendered":"“I DON’T HAVE TIME!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 119:145-148<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD, and I will obey Your decrees. I call out to You; save me and I will keep Your statutes. I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in Your Word. My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on Your promises.”<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How many times have you complained about never having enough time for Bible study, prayer and meditation? I am not counting the hands, but I would guess that a vast number of you have your hands up.<\/p>\n

Back in the 1970\u2019s I was working in a high pressure job and was deeply concerned about this very issue. Try as I might I could not seem to find the time for study. My problem was that I was trying to come up with the solution on my own.<\/p>\n

It suddenly dawned on me that I needed to pray and ask the Lord to show me where I could find the time I needed. Almost immediately He answered my prayer.<\/p>\n

As I looked at my schedule, I asked the Lord to direct my mind to times I could spend with Him. Immediately I noticed time in the morning before the rest of the family were awake. I figured I could rise 20 minutes early and still get plenty of sleep.<\/p>\n

The second segment of pure gold was the lunch hour. Rather than going out to lunch I could bring my lunch and also bring Bible study materials so I would be ready to enjoy an hour with my Lord.<\/p>\n

It worked! Not only did it work, but other Christians who worked for our agency were motivated to start their own time of study. At first I felt they were intruding when they dropped in to ask a question about a certain passage, but then I realized that steel sharpens steel. \u201cAs iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another\u201d <\/font>(Proverbs 27:17).<\/p>\n

Not only did the Lord show me periods of time to spend with Him, I suddenly had more time than ever before. It was a wonderful testimony to His control over our activities.<\/p>\n

There is one phrase in Today\u2019s Scripture that I would like to mention; \u201c- – – that I may meditate on Your promises.\u201d<\/font> What does that mean? I will tell you what it means—it means that we need to hide God\u2019s Word in our heart so we can bring it back to our mind over and over.<\/p>\n

How can we meditate on God\u2019s promises if we have not hidden them in our heart? A favorite singing group of ours, Ponder, Harp and Jennings have a song with this phrase: \u201cYou can\u2019t stand on God\u2019s promises if you don\u2019t know what they are!\u201d Do you know some of them?<\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing to others!<\/p>\n

— Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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