UNRUSHED: Spend Time with the Author of Time
Luke 6:12-16
JESUS REGULARLY SET ASIDE A QUIET PLACE TO MEET ALONE WITH GOD
“Memo to the Disorganized: If my private world is in order, it will be because I have made a daily determination to see time as God’s gift and worthy of careful investment.” —Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World
“But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.” —Luke 5:16 (NLT)
“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get. But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.” —Matthew 6:5-6 (NLT)
“If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.” —D.L. Moody
JESUS REGULARLY SET ASIDE A QUALITY TIME TO MEET ALONE WITH GOD
“The real problem with the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists of shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, take that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day.” —C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
JESUS REGULARLY SET ASIDE PLACE AND TIME TO BE IN COMMUNITY WITH GOD
“How much prayer meant to Jesus! It was not only his regular habit, but his resort in every emergency, however slight or serious. When perplexed he prayed. When hard pressed by work he prayed. When hungry for fellowship he found it in prayer. He chose his associates and received his messages upon his knees. If tempted, he prayed. If criticized, he prayed. If fatigued in body or wearied in spirit, he had recourse to his one unfailing habit of prayer. Prayer brought him unmeasured power at the beginning, and kept the flow unbroken and undiminished. There was no emergency, no difficulty, no necessity, no temptation that would not yield to prayer.” —S. D. Gordon, Quiet Talks on Prayer