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God Hears Her Podcast

165. Reimagining Quiet Time (with Emily Ryan)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: Emily E. Ryan is a minister’s wife, mother of four, and junior high English teacher who first dedicated her writing life to the Lord when she was a child. She quickly learned, however, that writing about Jesus could only come after walking with Him through hard times. In this season of life—full of teens, tweens, and all the beautiful noise and chaos that comes with them—she is familiar with the struggle to find those rare, quiet moments and claim them for Jesus. She writes about this struggle in her upcoming book Guilt-Free Quiet Times, where she encourages women with practical creativity to ditch guilt and embrace grace in their devotional time with the Lord. Emily and her family live in the great state of Texas, but you can find her online at emilyeryan.com or through her Guideposts devotions in ’ Mornings with Jesus.

 

Show Summary: What comes to mind when you think of spending time with the Lord? Do you picture your favorite comfy chair with your Bible and a steaming mug of coffee? Or do you see yourself frantically running around the house apologizing to God while you chase a toddler who has interrupted your quiet time. . . .again. Emily E. Ryan wants to help women reimagine their quiet time with the Lord by lifting up the guilt we sometimes feel. The stigma of ‘quiet time’ doesn’t have to be silent time spent in your house with the Lord. Join hosts, Vivian Mabuni and Eryn Eddy Adkins, as they learn how to have guilt-free quiet time during this God Hears Her conversation.

 

Notes and Quotes: 

  • “God shows Himself to us whenever we ask for our spiritual eyes to be opened.” —Emily E. Ryan

  • “God promised something good from this, so I’m going to start looking for that.” —Emily E. Ryan

  • “God is not calling us into this perfect, little checklist quiet time, He’s calling us into a deeper, intimate relationship with Him.” —Emily E. Ryan

  • The Lord has given us so much more choice into how we approach our spiritual disciples than we realize.” —Emily E. Ryan

  • “Whenever we have conviction, it always leads to a solution. If the Holy Spirit convicts your heart, then He’s doing so to lead you closer.” —Emily E. Ryan

  • “The highs and lows are going to happen regardless. It’s where they are leading you in the end. Are they leading you to the Lord, and is your faith growing?” —Emily E. Ryan

 

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It was enough for me to think, well, God promised something good from this.

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So I'm going to start looking for that.

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And again, it's not like the next day, everything's perfect, but it was just enough to start watching for it.

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And I do know that if you open your eyes and you expect the presence of the Lord,

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if you expect him to speak and him to guide you and him to give you

0:22.0

the comfort that you need, then it just kind of builds after each other.

0:26.0

One thing builds after another.

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And you begin, your heart just begins to recognize him because he's been there the whole time.

0:46.2

You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you.

0:56.7

Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to lean on God through scripture, story, and conversation at godhearsher.org.

0:58.2

God hears her.

1:00.6

Seek and she will find.

1:03.0

Well, hello, everyone.

1:08.9

So excited to have a conversation today with Emily E. Ryan.

1:14.2

She is a minister's wife, a mother of four, a junior high English teacher,

1:22.1

and she has been writing to the Lord since an early age, even as a child. She's in the season of life that probably many of us can relate to full of teens and tweens and noise and chaos. And what I love about our conversation

1:31.2

is that Emily is going to talk about something that I think we all struggle with as women who

1:37.1

want to walk with Jesus. And that is really what it looks like to not be guilt motivated. And so Emily has written an upcoming book called

1:47.4

Guilt Free Quiet Times, where she encourages women with practical creativity to ditch the guilt

1:53.1

and to embrace grace in their devotional time with the Lord. And I'm just so excited for a

1:57.6

conversation. So welcome, Emily. Thank you for having me. I'm so thrilled to get to talk to y'all today.

2:02.6

To just begin with, Emily, we'd love to hear a little bit of your spiritual journey and even

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