Private Time With The Lord

Recently, I was challenged by a message by Dr. Charles Stanley about private time with the Lord. My private time with the Lord is the most important time in my life, yet I have to work hard to maintain it. There are multiple distractions (even good and reasonable ones) but I'm thankful that God's love and grace draws me back to Him in submission. Included in my private time is prayer, reading His word so He can speak to me, meditating on His many attributes, repenting, praising Him for my salvation, praising Him for my wife, our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Bottom line, I want to commit to being submissive to His will and, if I'm not, I want Him to do whatever it takes to make it so. Two prayers, among many, loudly voice my sentiments:

1. "Cleanse me from secret faults.

Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;

Let them not have dominion over me.

Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression"

(Psalm 19:12b-13).

2. "Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties;

And see if there is any wicked way in me,

And lead me in the way everlasting"

(Psalm 139:23-24).

I praise God for His faithfulness:

" If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself"

(2 Tim. 2:13).

Amen.

Blessings.