You Have Time!

I had taken an afternoon nap and I remember being asleep, but as I was waking up I was telling myself, “I don’t have time to meet with God.” I had a large list of things to get completed. This nap was longer than what I wanted it to be and I had a list of things that I wanted to get completed.

First, a little background about my meetings with God. One Sunday afternoon, many years ago, I was sitting in my room just reading and spending time with God. I heard the Holy Spirit speak to me in my heart and tell me that he wanted me to meet with him at 5:00 pm everyday. I said, “Okay,” but at that time I was working full-time and my husband and I rode to work together each day. I got off work at 4:00 pm and my husband was off at 5:00 pm, so I would wait for him and then we would drive home together. I decided that if God wanted to meet with me I would just open my Bible while riding home and listen to what he wanted to tell me.

I never told my husband what the Holy Spirit had spoken in my heart. I just felt like God would deal with that. The following week, my husband came to me and said that his hours at work had been changed and he would now be getting off work at 4:00 pm. I knew God had made that arrangement so that I could meet with him. I’ve worked hard to continue this 5:00 pm appointment ever since! But on that particular day when I heard myself saying that I did not have time to meet with God; I was referring to my 5:00 pm appointment. When I finally opened my eyes and realized what I was saying, God had awakened me from my nap at 5:00 pm!

When I noticed the time and that it was 5:00 pm I knew that the enemy was trying to keep me from the appointment. As I sat with God, he let me see that. He did not even have to wake me. I could have died in my sleep. As those thoughts filled my mind, I started thanking him for all of his goodness, kindness, love, grace, mercy and forgiveness. My heart started to overflow with gratitude. The more I thanked him the more revelation he kept bringing; showing me that everything I was doing was because of him. I was so ashamed of the feeling that I had previously. Here God had given me an open invitation to join him and my thoughts were that I did not have time!

I remember praying asking God for forgiveness, but more than that, just being overwhelmed by the love he has for all of us! We do have time because time is a gift and that gift was given to us by him!

Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11

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