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Quiet Time Matters · Life For Toledo

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  I'm thinking today about quiet time, not a verse
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  per se, but a time, like Jesus set the example
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  to do, where you get alone with God. There are
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  a lot of spiritual disciplines that we're called
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  to enact, like prayer, meditation, Bible memorization,
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  intaking the Word, study, journaling, all kinds
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  of things like that. that you can do, and you
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  get alone with God, and you use those things,
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  and you grow in your relationship with the Lord.
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  And I know that God goes with us when we go out,
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  and that you can pray to and with God while you're
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  watching TV, but let's be realistic, you probably
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  won't. Or if you do, you're probably not blocking
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  out a lot of time to think about Him or talk
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  to Him or really focusing on Him during that
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  time. So I encourage you to take a quiet time
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  and get alone with the Lord. I was specifically
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  thinking about Jonah. You know how Jonah was.
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  He was speaking on behalf of God. He was hearing
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  from God and speaking the words of God. But then
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  when God wanted him to speak to the people of
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  Nineveh, he didn't want to do that. So he ran.
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  So he winds up in the sea. Then he winds up in
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  a fish. And from the fish, he says, while I was
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  fainting away, I remembered the Lord. And my
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  prayer came to you into your holy temple. See,
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  Jonah went to the bottom of the sea to pray to
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  the Lord. And now he's praying from the belly
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  of the fish. And he says to God, he says, I will
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  sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving
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  that which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation
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  is from the Lord. Let me encourage you to block
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  out some time to spend with God. Do it every
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  day, every day part, every meal. And just meals
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  is not enough. Do it every time you can block
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  out time to spend time with God. He's that important.
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  And he thinks that you're that important.