IBS 48 - PSALM 119:11 / MARK 1:35

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Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
Psalms 119:11

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.
Mark 1:35

We must be disciplined in guarding our hearts with His word. The only way we get to know Him more is by spending time with Him in His word and meeting Him in prayer. When we take our eyes off of Him and fix them on ourselves we lose focus. It’s so easy to want the extra hour of sleep. Or the extra time to get ready. But when we compromise our time with Him. Or  the time of meeting with Him we start to compromise in our relationship. Because how can you know someone if you don’t talk or spend time together? In the same way sin comes in when we aren’t on guard with His word. We grow tired and weary because we stop seeking Him and seeking His strength and we rely on our own humanness to carry us though. When that’s not what we were created to do. God made a way for us to have His power living within us. The same power that rose Jesus from the grave. But we must be continually surrendered to Him. We must be completely dependent upon Him. And that only happens, that true committed surrendered relationship happens when we seek Him in and through His word. He desires fellowship with us. So we must die to our desires of things we think have priority. We must be disciplined in seeking Him, and having His word guard our hearts. Because without it compromise is easy. And compromise is sin. And He has more for us than that. 


Application- I will wake up 30 min earlier to have more time with the Lord.

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