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You're struggling with spending time with the Holy Spirit every day. You're struggling with praying every day,

and it just seems like you'll never get it right. You're tired. You're busy. You're struggling with praying every day, and it just seems like you'll never get it

right. You're tired. You're busy. You feel overwhelmed. You're stressed out. And even when you do pray,

you find yourself skipping days or being distracted while you pray. I want to show you how to make time

for the Holy Spirit every single day and how to keep that up long term.

I'm giving you both practical and spiritual advice. So let's start with number one. This is a

practical piece of advice. Number one, master your mornings by getting control of your night

routine. Many people just wake up in the morning. They go about their day without a plan.

They just take the day as it comes instead of mastering the day from the start. But if you can

take control of the morning, you've taken control of the rest of the day. So what's the key here?

Though there are many different variables when it comes to taking control of your

morning routine, one of the key things that I found really helped me and really helps a lot of the

people who come to me for advice is to get control of your nighttime routine. Now let me read to you

Hebrews chapter 12 verse 11 where it says no discipline is enjoyable while it's happening.'s painful but afterwards there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way now of course we understand that this is talking about divine discipline but the spiritual principle here is that discipline or correction though painful in the moment, eventually yields powerful results.

So in particular, getting control of your night routine. Maybe you stay up scrolling on social media,

or snacking, or just aimlessly wondering throughout the day. I heard someone say that staying up late

at night is like you're claiming of the day because you felt

like you had nothing for yourself during the day. So because you're so busy during the day,

because you're so stressed during the day, it's basically your nighttime version's revenge

on daytime version of self because you're saying I didn't get to really get anything out of the

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