An Appointment with God

Why Not? We make appointments with everybody else and never seem to be able to find time to just hang with God. I hear what the real spiritual people in the crowd are thinking: "My whole life is God's and He is in everything, so why would I make an appointment with Him?"

On the one hand if that's your thinking then I applaud you because you are absolutely correct. However, let's just be real for a minute. How much do we acknowledge the presence of God in our daily lives? I think this reality is why we need to make regular, scheduled appointments to just hang out with God in Prayer.

Paul told us in I Thessalonian 5:17 to"pray without ceasing." So that is one passage that indicates that our moment by moment lives should be impacted and influenced by the continual communion between us and our Father. However, I think the way we increase the possibility of that really happening is by having fixed times of prayer in our daily agendas.

This past Sunday we called this "fixed hour prayer". Don't get so caught up with the "hour" word that you decide to not give it a try. I think if we could go to the place where we spend an hour with God in Prayer that would be an amazing time in our lives (Read Matthew 26:36-41). Maybe after yesterdays post you could have some fun turning this passage into a prayer.

Today's challenge:
Could we at least start with 15-20 minutes. Don't just say yes. Go to your calendar for the next 5 days and put it in your schedule. Remember, if you are participating in our current series of talks live or by podcast, that we are not talking about striving to earn God's acceptance. There is nothing we can do to earn anything from God.

All we have is because of God's grace (unconditional love and favor). While we are not trying to earn anything we can still put forth an effort to learn and grow. Dallas Willard said, "While grace is opposed to earning it is not opposed to effort". Put forth some effort this week to hang out with God in Prayer!