I can no longer get by day by day without stirring the Holy Spirit in me, and spending time with GOD.
A quick 5 minute prayer is good, but I start to seek pleasure from carnal things (not sin) when I stop getting a deep refilling from prayer.
GODs presence is better, but I tend to forget how much better it was and I drift to natural things if I do not spend time with GOD. But when I am really refreshed in His presence I say to myself, this is all I need...
So it comes down to finding time to spend with GOD each day, somehow, I just need to be refreshed in His presence. I understand now why Jesus pulled away and prayed all night to His heavenly Father when He had a busy day without much rest or time to pray.
It puts my affections and desires and will in perspective. Yeah the flesh may not like that initial pulling away for a spiritual thing, but recognize that as a birth pang to something much better as we seek Jesus!
Luke 9:23 "And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."
Jeremiah 29:13 "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
Matthew 6:6 "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
Psalm 63:3 " Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee."
A quick 5 minute prayer is good, but I start to seek pleasure from carnal things (not sin) when I stop getting a deep refilling from prayer.
GODs presence is better, but I tend to forget how much better it was and I drift to natural things if I do not spend time with GOD. But when I am really refreshed in His presence I say to myself, this is all I need...
So it comes down to finding time to spend with GOD each day, somehow, I just need to be refreshed in His presence. I understand now why Jesus pulled away and prayed all night to His heavenly Father when He had a busy day without much rest or time to pray.
It puts my affections and desires and will in perspective. Yeah the flesh may not like that initial pulling away for a spiritual thing, but recognize that as a birth pang to something much better as we seek Jesus!
Luke 9:23 "And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."
Jeremiah 29:13 "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
Matthew 6:6 "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
Psalm 63:3 " Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee."
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