Quiet with God?

I am guilty. I bet you are too. Have you noticed how EASY it is to become complacent when God answers all your prayers? How easy it is to skip prayer time when things are not so bad, or when you're doing okay with your finances or academics. Now remember when you needed that breakthrough, when you needed God to "come through for you" when you needed "supernatural favor" and all you did was lay at the feet of God and worship and adore him. Now he has given you peace, opened doors and praying suddenly becomes tiring. Now sleep takes away all your quiet time and you no longer hunger and thirst for His presence. I've been there, and I can tell you for a fact that God is not happy with it. We can't use God, he is our very essence, the only reason we breathe, if He ignored us or "forgot" to supply us with oxygen like we sometimes "forget" to pray we will be DEAD. That sleep that seems so pressing and enticing will not happen!

     I've heard a lot of preachers say we aren't too busy for God; we just don't desire His presence. For a while I thought that was not totally true, I would say to myself "I desire God but sometimes these tests are just too much!" Well as I mature in Christ I've found out that my thinking is completely wrong. Desire for God springs from love for Him, so if you truly Love God like you say then you will DESIRE Him 24/7.  By desiring him I mean you'll want to do what makes him happy, making him happy means keeping his commandments John 14:15 says

“If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you.” MSG

 You know how it is when you start talking to someone you like or someone you think you like lol. Or let me come closer, when you’re in a relationship, you always want to be around bae right? Always want to hang out and go to nice places, why? Because you love his/her company, you love hearing them talk, having conversations and doing things together as one. Well, if you love God then you'll always want to talk to Him, to be in His presence and to do what He likes. Listen there's one thing I know; we have a void. Yes, a void that needs to be filled. That void is our heart, and what we fill it with makes or breaks us. The Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If you fill your Heart with the things of God, you will speak and think the things of God. Subconsciously and consciously. On the other hand, if you fill your heart with Instagram, with malice, jealousy, hate and discontentment you will speak and act them out subconsciously AND consciously.

So dear friends, let us try. I know it's not as easy as we would all like it to be but I can assure you that it gets better with practice and consistency.

Side Note: I know what it means to be hit with life, hit with various forms of difficulties and temptations but I also know what if feels like to have God through it all and to win and defeat the devil. So I want to urge you to try today, try and fight that one thing the Holy Spirit keeps convicting you about. I don't know what it is, it could be gossiping, could be lying... anything. Choose to not give in, even if it's for one full day. Now come back and tell me if you didn't feel much cleaner and happier. Please read Luke 6:43-45 MSG version (lol you can read any version. I just love the MSG version so much). Stay serving!