Last night at board meeting Wayne put something so well.
We were talking about shepherding people and Wayne said,
“Look guys, all we have to do is get people into this Book. We do that, and the Spirit of God will go to work in their lives.”
I agree. We lead from the Word. We lead people in the way of the Word. We just want people to be in (really in) the Word and we know that God will be doing His work.
Are you in the Book? Do you have a daily quiet time?
If not, why not.
If you do, why do you?
Do you know why you have a quiet time?
Do you know why this is so important?
Can you enumerate the reasons?
If you had to list ten reasons for this practice what would they be?
You should know. You should be able to articulate those reasons.
Pastor Joseph Hall wrote a guide for his congregation explaining why they should have “daily, secret meditations” (Puritan lingo for the quiet time).
This is what he said:
For by this do we ransack our deep and false hearts; find out our secret enemies; buckle with them, expel them ; arm ourselves against their re-entrance : by this, we make use of all good means, fit ourselves to all good duties ; by this we descry our weakness ; obtain redress ; prevent temptations ; cheer up our solitariness ; temper our occasions of delight ; get more light unto our knowledge. more heat to our affections, more life to our devotion : by this, we grow to be, as we are, strangers upon earth ; and out of a right estimation of all earthly things into a sweet fruition of invisible comforts.