Hello Sisters! (The picture above is where I spend time in the Word, in my bedroom on the floor. :)
When I was learning about healing 8 years ago I was DEVOTED to studying the scriptures. I had all my bibles out and concordance out and would spend anywhere from 4-6 hours a night going through the scriptures and praying. I was so EXCITED, for the first time in my life I really believed that WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAID, WAS REALLY TRUE and that if Jesus said that I had ALL HIS POWER, well then, I BELIEVED IT! It was not long that I was baptized in the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues (something I passionately discredited as false) and had VICTORY in all areas of my life!
This 4-6 hours a night of spending with Jesus went on for about 8 weeks. I would go to bed around 2 am and awake around 6 am. I would have VERY LITTLE sleep and I had a newborn! But the Lord SUPERNATURALLY gave me all the rejuvenation I needed because He knew I NEEDED THIS TIME WITH HIM!
Well, I am digging in again and I want to ENCOURAGE you to also.
"[For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the PRINCIPAL thing], prize wisdom HIGHLY and EXALT her, and she will exalt and promote you; she will bring you to honor when you embrace her." Proverbs 4:7-8 Amplified Bible
What is there more important and pressing than Jesus? NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When we spend time in the Word, it gets our attitudes and thinking straight and our actions begin to line up with the Word. We begin to greet our husband and children in a SPIRIT OF LOVE (tenderness, gentleness, patience) and in turn breed love into them. :)
I'm going to try and read all the gospels and Acts in the next 30 days. I figure it's about 8 chapters a day. So, no other readings at this time and every chance I get it's the bible (nursing baby, sitting outside, in between chores, laundry, etc...).
I EXPECT and KNOW because the bible says so, that as I dig in, things I have been lacking in will become overflowing (physical and spiritual needs) and that I will have an abundance for every good work! I will walk and move in the POWER OF JESUS and His love will be working in me! We have a GREAT DADDY!!!!!!!
Blessings,
Shannon
1 comments:
I NEED this as well. I have let my reading slide, and the effects are obvious. Although I have been making progress in other areas spiritually, I just know that the Bible keeps calling my name, and I keep doing other things! For some reasong I just felt like it wasn't going to do any good. Now how silly is that!!!???? With the baby coming very soon I keep feeling the need to do other things. But the family is falling to pieces around me and I do not think that when the Lord blesses you with a new life that the rest of life is supposed to fall down around you. And just think when the baby is born I'll have a whole lot of sit down time nursing a newborn to devote to reading :-) But I'll need to make some time now, to prepare me. Have a great day!
Kerri
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