Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth has to fight for time alone with God.

It's a recurring battle for me. I'll tell you that. But I believe it's a battle worth fighting.

The devil knows if he can stop me here. I can do all kinds of things for God, but not really be fruitful and not be any threat to the devil's program.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoof, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest. For January 4th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

It's always a good time to start spending time with God and His Word and in prayer, but I think this is an important reminder to begin forming habits here at the start of 2022.

Yesterday, Nancy began showing us the incredible busyness of Jesus. Here's Nancy, continuing in the series,

discovering the joy of daily devotions.

Luke chapter 5 tells us that Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. He left the crowd, went and got with his father. In this passage we see in Mark I that it was none too soon because verse 36 tells us Simon

and those who were with him searched for him and they found him and said to him, everyone

is looking for you.

I was talking with a mom of six children on the phone yesterday, ages seven and down.

She's got seven-year-old triplets and then three other children younger than that.

And she said to me, she said, she was praying that her like seven-month-old baby, I think,

would sleep a little longer than five o'clock in the morning.

She says, I just have got, she says, I'll do anything to get that time with the Lord, first thing in the morning. She wants it, she craves it, because she knows that once that little one is up, her day is off and running, and it's going to be very hard to get a quiet time, a quiet place, and a quiet heart the rest of the day. Now let me just say to moms, don't put yourself on a guilt trip about this, okay? Moms or anybody else. God knows your heart. He knows if your heart is to seek him. And if you will seek him with the moments you have, I believe God can and will expand those moments. But they said, everyone is looking for you.

And Jesus said to them, let us go on to the next towns, right at the height of his popularity

there in Copernal.

Let us go on that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.

And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

How did he know it was time to go on?

Where did he get the wisdom, the direction for his day? Where did he get his to-do list for the day?

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