BBD 12.30.14 Facilitating Your Spiritual Break Out - Pt 3 of 8 A Quiet Time (Classic)

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The Burning
Bush Devotional

Classic
from 2003

12.30.14

Facilitating Your Spiritual Break
Out - Part 3 A Quiet Time

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out
and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. - Mark 1:35 NKJV.

I am not sure when I first heard the term “quiet time”
used in reference to spending time alone with God in prayer and reading of His
Word. I have heard other terms used such as doing your “devotions” or simply
spending time alone with God. We have talked about how important God’s Word and
prayer are to having a “spiritual break out.” Now we need to put the two of
them together and Jesus gives us a wonderful example of this. Jesus who is the
living “Word of God” goes to a “solitary
place” where He prays. Jesus who was and is the “Word of God” also needed to pray. We need to do the same.

My first quiet times were accomplished with the reading
of a devotional booklet along with prayer. Some of those earliest quiet times
were only a few minutes in length, but still God was able to speak to me during
those times. As I grew consistent in my quiet times I was amazed at how God
seemed to have written devotionals just for my circumstances on the day that I
read them. Sometimes I would make a mistake, and read the wrong devotional for
the day, and after reading it discover it was exactly what I needed at that
time. It had not been a mistake after all, but the hand of God directing me.

Before I heard, and knew beyond any doubt God’s call was upon
my life, I was engaged in an intensive Bible study, which included a regular
and lengthy morning quiet time. I had been engaged this regular, consistent,
lengthy time with God for many months and I had begun praying, and writing out
those prayers concerning His call for my life. The morning God spoke to me and
changed my life was a morning like so many others; I was not expecting God to
speak in a dramatic way. However, God did speak using a passage of Scripture,
which in the course of time I had come to in my regular reading along with a
devotional that was precisely concerning what I needed to hear. God in that
quiet time spoke in a way leaving no doubt about His call upon my life and I
was then able to communicate that call to my wife and others.

Without a regular and consistent quiet time, I believe I
would still be wondering about God’s call on my life. Was He calling me or not
calling me? Without a quiet time, I would never have had the courage to share
God’s call with my wife and then to make public at our church what God was
doing. Without a quiet time, I would never have had the strength or courage to
leave behind one career and move on to the career God had prepared for me.

The truth is, that without a regular and consistent quiet
time where you spend time in God’s Word and prayer you will never see the
fulfillment of God’s will for your life. It is possible to miss God’s call. It
is possible to be outside of God’s will. It is possible to make well-meaning
decisions that are not what God wants for your life. It is possible to spend
your life doing something completely other than what God wanted for you. Having
a quiet time on a regular basis will enable you to “break out” spiritually, and
be in the midst of God’s will for your life.

Copyright © 2003-2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 years online since
January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been
spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the
world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn
profile with endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
an end to the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace
and love. Please pray for Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young
Christian man with a wife and two children. Unless God intervenes there is
little hope for him. Please also pray for Shane Hall who has cancer and for all
those afflicted with this terrible disease. Many prayer needs are posted at the
Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer
requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for
me.).

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at http://www.theburningbush.net for the “Devotional of the Day” and read the devotional
there.

The New Pastor's
Training Manual is now available for download on Amazon. You can READ for
FREE a LARGE SAMPLE (approx. 17 pages) which includes how God worked in my life
to Call me to Preach and other material. Click on the “Look Inside Link.” If
you do buy the 216 page eBook for $3 (FREE if you have KINDLE UNLIMITED.)
please write a review. Thanks! Here is the link: http://amzn.to/1ufa1ov
If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from the Burning Bush
website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

The Burning
Bush Devotional

Classic
from 2003

12.30.14

Facilitating Your Spiritual Break
Out - Part 3 A Quiet Time

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out
and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. - Mark 1:35 NKJV.

I am not sure when I first heard the term “quiet time”
used in reference to spending time alone with God in prayer and reading of His
Word. I have heard other terms used such as doing your “devotions” or simply
spending time alone with God. We have talked about how important God’s Word and
prayer are to having a “spiritual break out.” Now we need to put the two of
them together and Jesus gives us a wonderful example of this. Jesus who is the
living “Word of God” goes to a “solitary
place” where He prays. Jesus who was and is the “Word of God” also needed to pray. We need to do the same.

My first quiet times were accomplished with the reading
of a devotional booklet along with prayer. Some of those earliest quiet times
were only a few minutes in length, but still God was able to speak to me during
those times. As I grew consistent in my quiet times I was amazed at how God
seemed to have written devotionals just for my circumstances on the day that I
read them. Sometimes I would make a mistake, and read the wrong devotional for
the day, and after reading it discover it was exactly what I needed at that
time. It had not been a mistake after all, but the hand of God directing me.

Before I heard, and knew beyond any doubt God’s call was upon
my life, I was engaged in an intensive Bible study, which included a regular
and lengthy morning quiet time. I had been engaged this regular, consistent,
lengthy time with God for many months and I had begun praying, and writing out
those prayers concerning His call for my life. The morning God spoke to me and
changed my life was a morning like so many others; I was not expecting God to
speak in a dramatic way. However, God did speak using a passage of Scripture,
which in the course of time I had come to in my regular reading along with a
devotional that was precisely concerning what I needed to hear. God in that
quiet time spoke in a way leaving no doubt about His call upon my life and I
was then able to communicate that call to my wife and others.

Without a regular and consistent quiet time, I believe I
would still be wondering about God’s call on my life. Was He calling me or not
calling me? Without a quiet time, I would never have had the courage to share
God’s call with my wife and then to make public at our church what God was
doing. Without a quiet time, I would never have had the strength or courage to
leave behind one career and move on to the career God had prepared for me.

The truth is, that without a regular and consistent quiet
time where you spend time in God’s Word and prayer you will never see the
fulfillment of God’s will for your life. It is possible to miss God’s call. It
is possible to be outside of God’s will. It is possible to make well-meaning
decisions that are not what God wants for your life. It is possible to spend
your life doing something completely other than what God wanted for you. Having
a quiet time on a regular basis will enable you to “break out” spiritually, and
be in the midst of God’s will for your life.

Copyright © 2003-2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 years online since
January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been
spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the
world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn
profile with endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
an end to the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace
and love. Please pray for Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young
Christian man with a wife and two children. Unless God intervenes there is
little hope for him. Please also pray for Shane Hall who has cancer and for all
those afflicted with this terrible disease. Many prayer needs are posted at the
Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer
requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for
me.).

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the
burningbushdevo devotional group by sending a blank email to
burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html
text group (Because of time constraints the devotional is only being sent now
in html format) by sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org
and you may unsubscribe by sending a blank email to
burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the confirmation email.
If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org