Reflections

Keep A Daily Quiet Time

If we are to know the strengthening power of prayer  in our daily life and experience, then we must make time to have moments of quiet when we can gain the poise and power that will enable us to meet every problem head on. Those who say they can live in a state of prayer without definite times of prayer, will eventually find themselves without both.

In my counselling experiences I have often found that people who complain of spiritual dryness and barrenness do so because they have neglected the place of prayer. One counsellor asked a couple who were living defeated Christian lives if they kept the Quiet Time; and the naive reply was given, "Yes, my husband and I sit and smoke in the quiet, half an hour after breakfast". Those sincere but defeated souls found release and victory when they set up a real Quiet Time, in which they took in the resources of the Living God, instead of the pitiable substitute of nicotine. Breathing the Holy Spirit into your spiritual lungs gives you a pick-you-up with no let- you-down. James Russel Lowell says.

If the chosen soul could never be alone,

In deep mid-silence, open-doored to God

No greatness ever had been dreamed or done;...

The nurse of full grown souls is solitude.

 A watch was running slow and the watchmaker asked the owner when he wound it. When told "at night", he said, "Wind it in the morning. Give it the fresh spring at the most difficult part of the day when you are moving about." If the best Man who ever lived needed to pray in the early part of the day then so must you.

              A very blessed New Year to all of you in the Name of Jesus.