Quiet moments5/29/2023 The intimate connection through prayer and worship to our Father is incredibly powerful. Jesus knew, in order to execute His Father’s will on earth, He would need to be fueled by the power of prayer. “Very early in the morning, while it was dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed” ( Mark 1:35). Jesus set the tone of how we are to seek our Father. In the middle of chaos, quiet moments of prayer are incredibly powerful. It isn’t just in the still peaceful morning prayer. Those are a handful in a sea full of prayers to the Lord. Hannah prayed, “There is no Rock like our God” ( 1 Samuel 2:1-10). Solomon prayed for wisdom ( 1 Kings 3:7-9). David prayed in the cave hiding from a crazed King Saul. Jonah cried out to the Lord from inside the belly of a fish! ( Jonah 2:1-9). Scattered along the pages of Scripture, quiet instances of prayer preface big miracle moments. Isaiah 30:15 says, “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Tragically, God’s people “would have none of it.” He rested – not because He needed the rest – but because He knew we would need quiet moments. God weaved the Sabbath into the seventh day of creation. Before all of the coming and going of the happenings of the earth, the sound of human voices and wildlife, it was quieter. Hovering over the water, in the darkness before God spoke daylight into existence, in the quiet. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters” ( Genesis 1:1). “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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