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Let's dive into this episode. Take your devotional life to another level. Now when I'm talking about devotional life,

I am talking about mainly your devotions, not your devotion.

Now, devotion is your life committed to Jesus.

Devotions is your time spent with Jesus.

I have another video, what I deal about, why you should pray in the morning and develop your daily devotions. You can click

below this video in the description to watch that video. So now let's dive in. Ten things you can do

to take your prayer life, your morning prayer to another level. Number one, go to sleep earlier.

Duh. You have no idea how many people struggle with their early morning devotions

because they stay up too late. They don't go to sleep early enough. In fact, your early morning prayer

can only be as effective consistently if you go to sleep early enough.

And so if you make a decision to go to sleep earlier, you'll be more alert in your morning time.

If you read the Old Testament, you will see that, especially in the creation story, that the day begun with the night and the morning.

You know, most of us we begin our day with coffee or we begin our day with some kind of a glass of water.

In the Jewish culture, your day begun with a good night's sleep.

That's why the Shabbat, Saturday, didn't start on Saturday, it started on Friday night.

And it ended on Saturday night, not on Sunday morning. So each day started the night before,

the evening before, and then it ended on the evening off. What does that tell us? That tells us that

your morning prayer is really starting before

you go to sleep. So the last few hours of your before going to sleep, what you do before you

retreat has a huge effect on your devotion time. And many people who spend that time just consuming

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