practice what you preach

Just recently I preached a sermon on getting alone with God not just in our daily devotional time but a special time set aside just to be alone with God and to listen to him. So many times we come to God with a laundry list of things that we don't take time to listen to him. Then there are times in our life where it seems like what else could go wrong or take up my time and for me that has been the way for the past several weeks. Let me just recap a bit there was revival and working my part time job six days the week of revival, then there was ministers and mates retreat which was good to be at and a good time over all but then you come back to everything that needs to be caught up on, and then it is another six day a week spell because of sickness at work (need I say more). At the end of this message I challenged the people to take sometime that week just to get alone with God and to be still before Him so that we may hear what he has to say. Today (11/05/09) God said to me Darrell should you not also do what you challenged the people to do and that is to get alone with me and listen to what I have to say. So today when I got home from work and before supper I went for my afternoon/evening walk and I told Roxanne after my walk I will be in my office. When I got to the office I fixed me a cup of VIA coffee from Starbucks (and I recommend it for people who are coffee drinkers especially Starbucks fans) and put on a cd of music set to the sounds of the outdoors such as birds chirping and the sound of water going over the rock in a creek and I was quiet before God. I wish I could say it was easy to do and that God revealed his whole plan for my life, but at times my mind began to wonder and to think about all that is happening right now and God did not reveal anything earth moving to me other than He quieted my spirit and I found rest for my soul. Matthew 14:23 tells us, "he (Jesus) went up on a mountainside by himself to pray." i was on my mountainside today. May I challenge you to do the same thing go to your mountainside and be with Jesus. "Be still and know that I am God" Ps 46:10 When I went home for supper I was in a much better frame of mind
Blessing