It is very important for young women to spend time in the morning with the Lord. Sadly we tend to push this important need aside hit the snooze button, roll over and catch a few more minuets of sleep. So what will we get out of five minuets of time with the Lord? Well I can tell you from experience that even the smallest amount of time spent with the Lord can impact your day greatly. Even taking the time to read one proverb and then applying that particular verse into your life can be such a benefit. Deuteronomy 11:18 says, “Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads”. Why do you think the Lord is telling us to do this? Well if you skip down a few verses you will see. Deuteronomy 11:20-21, “Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.” As you can see there is a great blessing for those who take the time to read the bible and feed off of it. Now I can speak from experience that it is so hard to get up in the morning. I am not a morning person. You might be surprised to hear that my dad consistently has all of us children wake up at six thirty in the morning. By seven we are all sitting in my living room for family devotions, after that is done all the children head back to their rooms to do their private devotions. We have until eight to do this, but I normally take that time to catch up on my sleep (I mean come on six thirty). Some of you, in fact most of you, will have to find your own time in the morning to do devotions. But even if you have an assigned time it is very easy to fall into the sin of sloth. But if you take time every morning for the Lord you will find that that will be one of the best parts of your day. One thing I have done is going outside on summer mornings (in the morning the sun isn’t fully up so its normally the perfect temperature) I will sit on our back porch, read the bible and pray. I told you this because you might find that praying of reading your bible in your bed can very easily distract you form the Lord. It might be nice to find a comfortable, quiet place other than your bed to spend time with the Lord. Overcoming the sin of sloth is a battle that you must continually fight, but remember that the lord will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”

2 Corinthians 9:8