Seek First

Matthew 6:25-34

New International Version (NIV)

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Spending Quiet Time with God and Listening to His Voice

Sometimes it's not a matter of wanting to spend time with God, but a question of how?
What do we do with the time when we have it?

Here are some suggestions on how we can spend quiet time with God.

~ Praising Him in Psalm.
~ Silence with God, "Be still and know that I am God."
        - Allow God to speak to your heart, mind, and soul.
~ Through journaling your prayers and thoughts about God.
~ Through devotional Scripture, by reading stories. Ask yourself these questions as you read:
     - What does this text/story say about God?
     - What does this text/story say about me?
     - What does this text/story say about my walk with God?

Where can we hear his voice?
It's  all around us, we just need to listen.

Listen through...
         Nature
         Scripture
         Friends
         Music

The more time we spend with God, we will realize how evident he is in every part of our life.

Contribution by MMX

Secret Prayer

"But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

~Matthew 6:6

April's Prayer Topic

This month let's pray about spending intentional alone time with God to learn to hear his voice more clearly.

Whether in the quiet of the morning, before our world around us wakes, or in the stillness of the night...

When are you making time for God? 

With no one else around, no distractions? 

Alone time? 

So you will be know when you hear his voice.

"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you" James 4:8