For years, and to this day, I get up around 3am to 4am everyday. This habit started in 1979 in Sidney, Montana at KGCX radio where is had to be at the station by 4am to warm up the tube transmitter. I love the mornings! I love the silence. I love what God shows me at this time of day. I hear the Lord. It also helps me that I get connected to God right away before all the crazy stuff starts happening in our world. I do not hear all the sirens in Taylor Ranch during my early morning coffee with God. You could say that my discernment is vey good first thing in the morning and I always pray that it will last through the day!!! HA!
The Baptist Press
By Kie Bowman, posted September 20, 2024
Does your morning schedule affect your prayer life? Is the time you pray important?
Someone once said that there are two kinds of Christians: One wakes up and says, “Good morning, Lord!” The other says, “Good Lord…morning.” Should this difference affect your prayer life?
The morning difference
In the Harvard Business Review, Dr. Christoph Randler, a neuroscientist from the University of Tübingen, writes about the advantages of early rising. His research finds that early risers, “…get better grades in school” so they “attend better colleges, which then leads to better job opportunities.” He adds that, “Morning people” have “…better job performance, greater career success, and higher wages.” He also says that through discipline anyone can decide to become a “morning person.” In other words, your chronotype is not permanent.
The advantage of rising early is also recognized by corporate leaders looking for a competitive edge. The list of CEOs who get up between 4:00-5:00 a.m. reads like a Who’s Who of modern business. The list includes Apple CEO Tim Cook and Disney CEO Robert Iger, who both rise daily at 4:30 a.m. The former PepsiCo CEO and Wake Forest Business School Dean Steve Reinemund, formerAvon Products CEO Andrea Jung, and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz are all up before 5:00 a.m. The list of high-capacity early risers is a long one.More Here
Discernment is the ability to understand and perceive something clearly, or the act of doing so. Discernment is a God given gift. You look at this world now, many do not know God. They do not have God. I also see many Christians behaving badly because they do not get connected to God so they can hear Him. You see all the crazy and ugly things from so called Christians right? Discernment is the God given ability to judge well or make sharp perceptions. So many Christians are making bad decisions, even Pastors. Look at our political system! There is hardly any God given discernment in both parties. The ugly words and so forth fly out of the mouths! Both parties are guilty. Back in the day, they would have gotten their mouths washed out with soap!
“Then Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.’ So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, ‘Go up now, look toward the sea.’ So he went up and looked, and said, ‘There is nothing.’ And seven times he said, ‘Go again.’ Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, ‘There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!’ So he said, ‘Go up, say to Ahab, “Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.”’”
PONDER THIS
We need to keep praying until God rains down on us. Here was a man who knocked and kept knocking—and that’s what we need to do. If God doesn’t answer your prayer, just keep praying. That brings up the question of how long we should continue to pray. You continue to knock until you have the answer in your hand or in your heart, or until God says no. If you have the answer in your hand, you don’t have to keep asking. Now, you may have the answer in your heart, and God may say, “I have heard your prayer. Wait on Me.”
I once had a deep prayer request concerning some of my loved ones. I tried to tell God how to do it, but He would not let me instruct Him. One day, He said to me, “Adrian, you trust Me. I’m going to take care of it. I have heard your prayer.” Now it took a while, but I had the answer in my heart.
Sometimes God will just simply say no. Why? Because He doesn’t love us? No, because He does love us. The answer may be direct; the answer may be different; the answer may be delayed. But God answers prayer.
- Why do we fail to continue in prayer before God?
- When have you struggled with waiting for God’s answer to your prayer? What did you do? What did you learn?
PRACTICE THIS
Talk with a friend about how he or she responds when God doesn’t answer prayer quickly or as we desire.
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