Each day we all have something in common that we all often overlook. It’s time! And how we use that time often not only reveals who we are, but will typically determine our destiny. It shows us a lot about who we are and what we are trying to get out of life. We have intentional time with food, intentional time with sleep, intentional time with entertainment, with our friends and family and all that of that time spent develops us more into who we become.
What drives us to spend our time in one place or another? Well, we know there are many reasons such as duty, responsibility, commitment, love and passion. What often drives us is the tyranny of the urgent that results in time spent unintentionally and unexamined and those blind steps have conclude into confusion.
I love what Steven Covey once stated “Watch your habits; your habits will determine your character and your character will determine your life. You cannot rise any higher than the fortitude of your character. Your character is the foundation for your life, so if you want to change your life, you must first change your character.”
If you are ever going to break the lid off of your life you need to master where you intentionally spend your life. And there is no better place to “school” that than in the presence of God. Spending intentional time with God will breed inside you destiny! It’s those moments that create a better person, a person that dreams, envisions a better world. It’s that intentional time that moves a persons life to fulfill those ideas. There is where a great story is born and gets nurtured to climb higher in life. It’s always better day in God’s presence! Spend intentionally relaxed time with God and the unintentional stuff that is eating you alive will melt away.
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. (Matthew 6:30-33 The Message (MSG))
So let’s practice taking intentional time with God. I want you to think about what your intentional time with God looks like. Let me help you develop it with a few of the following questions.
· How can you develop an ongoing, unending awareness of God?
· What do you spend the most time doing during the week? The second most, the third most? Can
you replace time with God with one of those?
· If you feel that it is impossible to replace one of your top three time consumers, what do you think
would happen if you instead gave God the first 10 minutes of each activity?
With your Life Group or with a friend take some intentional time over the following to go a bit deeper.
· What habit do you feel you need to improve when it comes to your relationship with God?
Constant communication, instant obedience, or daily desperation?
· What are some of the things keeping you from having an ongoing, unending awareness of God?
What will do you to remove these distractions?
· In what ways do you think your life would be better if you lived with an ongoing, unending
awareness of God’s presence?
· What good things do you need to let go of so that you can grab hold of the better in your life?
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