How do you plan your day?<\/p>\n
-Check your email?<\/p>\n
-Check text messages?<\/p>\n
-Check reports online?<\/p>\n
-Check the news?<\/p>\n
-Check your day planner?<\/p>\n
-Write your day planner?<\/p>\n
-Make phone calls?<\/p>\n
-Check with your secretary\/assistant\/partner?<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
OR<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
Read what Jesus did to plan His day.<\/p>\n
Maybe it wasn’t so much about planning His day, like we Americans think we have to figure everything out—schedule it to get it all done.<\/p>\n
Maybe Jesus, God Himself, didn’t really plan his day.<\/p>\n
Maybe He got His day planner in line by doing something more important—like ‘first things first.’<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
“As His custom was, He got up a great while before day, and departed to a solitary place, and prayed there.”<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
Get your Bible and check it out.<\/p>\n
I think it mentions that a few places.<\/p>\n
Sometimes He spent the whole night praying.<\/p>\n
Other times the disciples watched Him pray.<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
Jesus—God—prayed to God?<\/p>\n
Here’s a chance to get your theology fresh, and get a fresh start to your day, every day.<\/p>\n
Jesus depended on praying to ‘His Father’—a very close relationship that directed His every move while He was here on earth—all the way, through the resistance from people, to the agony in the garden, and to the cross.<\/p>\n
His Father will even tell Him when to come get us and take us HOME.<\/p>\n
– – –<\/p>\n
And He tells us we can pray to the same Father—Jesus said, “My Father and your Father.”<\/p>\n
Do that today, every day, first thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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