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Five Blessings of Solitude

As you prepare for your time of solitude, don’t think of it as confinement, or as a punishment, or suffering. You can look forward to this time. It is a time that God has provided for you to be intimate … Continue reading

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5 Things to Do While In Solitude

  When you have found a place of solitude to be alone with God, it is best that you have some idea what you will do—the activities that will make up your quiet time. Here are five suggestions. 1. Meditate … Continue reading

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Four Hindrances to Finding Inner Solitude

The hindrances to solitude are those things that grieve God within us, and therefore would keep us from prayer. There are many things that would grieve God, but we will talk about four things in particular. The sins of lust. … Continue reading

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Three Reasons Why Solitude Is Important When You Pray

1.  It provides rest for the body and soul.  Everyone needs a break from time to time.  Even Jesus needed a break.  But His breaks were somewhat different than what most people would consider as a break.  When many of … Continue reading

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Praying the Scriptures in Our Quiet Time

  If our time in the Word is the focus of the quiet time, our prayer time is the life, the vitality, and the fire of the quiet time.  And in that prayer time we endeavor to pray the application … Continue reading

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Five Purposes for Journaling

   Five Purposes for Journaling 1.  To preserve a record of the things God has shown you.  This may be in the form of a diary at the end of the day, or the study notes you take during your … Continue reading

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Five Things to Plan for Your Daily Devotions (Quiet Time)

  This is an excerpt from Prayer A to Z — coming soon! Some would say, there’s No need for planning, just let the Holy Spirit lead you in your quiet time.  But I say, the Holy Spirit is all … Continue reading

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Quiet Time: Exemplified By Jesus

A quiet time is just that—a special time that we have set aside to be quiet.  It is a time that we have planned and set aside to be alone with God in silence, without distractions, for the purpose of … Continue reading

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Five Ways God Speaks To Us

  1.  Through an inner voice.  This inner voice is the voice of all three persons of the trinity of God, because they are all one.  When we hear the voice of one person we are hearing, or at least … Continue reading

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Making Room for Love – from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Man Cradles His Sick Dog in Lake Superior I ran across this picture and thought it would be fitting for this post.  Click on the title to read about this heartwarming story of the love this man shows for his … Continue reading

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