Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning's with the Masters for

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. It is a special

morning indeed. Tori is back. Micah is back. Our home is back. Our set is back. We're

home. We're home. We're home. Praise God. He is a good God. He is a merciful God. Yes, yes.

Anyways, we're rounding out with day five of our, what is God doing devotional in the Bible app?

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us. And as

always, I'm going to read the scripture in Tori's going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it.

The scripture is Matthew chapter six, verse six. And it says this, but when you pray, go away

by yourself. Shut the door behind you and pray to your father and and private. Then your father

who sees everything will reward you. The devotional is titled focus and it says this, have you ever

tried really hard to focus on something for a while? Why is that so hard? I don't know about you,

but I have no trouble focusing for hours on a Netflix binge or spending an all day on one of my

favorite hobbies. But sit down in a quiet room and try to focus on what God is doing in my life for

10 minutes. It's a battle. Is it just me? It can't be just me. Here's the problem in our hyper

distractible culture. Hearing from God requires focus. We already talked about how the burning

bush and talking donkeys were one off events. If God speaks and whispers, we need to find a way to

be still quiet our minds and focus. So here are a couple ideas you might try to get your heart and

mind to be still before the Lord long enough to hear or see what he's up to. First, ditch the devices

wherever you go to be alone with God, make it a screen free environment. Anything that beeps,

buzzes or alerts should be turned off or better yet left somewhere else. If you use your phone

to read the Bible, you know, like you're doing right now, put it in airplane mode or do not disturb

so that texts or social media alerts aren't constantly trying to drown out God. Next, try moving.

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