Is it any coincidence that my life is better when I am closer to God?
The days when I wake up thinking about how blessed I am and thanking God for my family, my home, and my health are the days that seem to breeze by. The more time I spend in prayer seems to be directly related to the more time I feel happy. I feel like life has a purpose, like I have a purpose and God is leading me in the right direction.
Is it also just coincidence that the days I forget my morning prayer, forget to thank God, spend time in His word, those are the days that things don't seem to go right. That no matter what I do nothing seems to make me happy.
It's no coincidence. God is in control of our lives if we let Him be and our lives are better when we give ourselves over to God. The enemy tries to pull us away with this or that, tricking us into thinking we can be happy be some other means. Satan doesn't care about us. He wants to ruin our day, ruin our lives. He will do anything to keep us from loving and worshipping God.
Here lately I feel like I have fallen away from God. Not that I've been doing anything bad, just that I haven't been spending the time with Him that I should, and I can tell. It's amazing what just a few mornings of not praying can do. For whatever reason, I overslept, I don't have time, the baby is crying, I'll just check my email, watch this tv show. It doesn't matter what the excuse is, not spending time with God can hurt us.
It's strange but I've noticed that if I don't start my day with God I usually don't end my day with God so you can imagine the inbetween part. I think it is very important to make God a part of your day from beginning to end.
I'm going to challenge myself. Every morning I'm going to get up before Lukas wakes up and spend time in uninterrupted prayer. If for any reason Lukas wakes up first I will give him his bottle and kneel and pray anyway. Sometimes I pray aloud including my 18 month old and usually he is quite during this time. The second part of my challenge involves my husband. Every night after Lukas goes to sleep I'm going to challenge us both to sit down, no tv, no internet, just the two of us with the bible and our devotional book. Every night we will do a different devotional. We've tried this before and never got too far but I'm going to try very hard this time. If you, whoever is reading this, would like to make us accountable for this please feel free to email me or leave a comment reminding me that you are watching us. It also would hurt to pray for us. Especially my husband. He is really good to go along with me when I want to do stuff like this but I would love for him to want to do it as badly as I do.
If I begin my day and end my day with God then I know my days will be better. No matter what life might throw at me I know that God will not give me anything I cannot handle, and it is a lot easier to handle things when God is with me.
If you don't pray spend time with God every morning and every night, and you don't study His word, give it a try. See if it makes a difference in your life. Then let me know how it goes. I love to hear how God works in the life of others.
thank you and good day. :)
