"Then the spirit . . . said unto me, Go, shut thyself within." Ezekiel 3:24
'Tis good to be with Jesus from all the world apart, Enjoying sweet communion, that blessed 'better part'.
Get a place, some familiar place, for being alone with God - and a time. What time, it is not for me to say. I would not have anybody to be bound by rules concerning times or anything else; but have a time - times if you will - but a time at least.
We shall all agree that, for the young, strong and healthy, there is no time like the morning. Remember that God can do a wonderful amount of work in five minutes, if you can spare no more, but He can do nothing in five minutes if you can give Him sixty. All this is between yourself and Him. Have a time, the time when the door is shut, the best loved on earth excluded, the soul brought face to face with God.
A Christian lad giving a testimony for Jesus, told his secret when he said that from the time of his conversion he trusted the Lord with his morning hour; and the way he spoke of it indicated the radiancy of the light that shone from him then. Do you want a glad and rejoicing life? Do you want to live by the wells that never dry up or freeze? There is no hour like that of the morning prime for fellowship with God. The filling of that hour will overflow into all the hours that follow. Mountain Trailways for Youth
"Do not have your concert first, then tune you instruments afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all, in harmony with Him."J. Hudson Taylor.
"When morning gilds the skies my heart awaking cries, Let Jesus Christ be praised!" Edward Caswall
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