Have You Ever Been Alone with God? (2)

Mark 4:10 (Amplified Bible)
And as soon as He was alone, those who were around Him, with the Twelve [apostles], began to ask Him about the parables.


God wants us to have alone time with Him, but in this day and age of hurry, hurry, hurry and "instant" everything, there are many distractions and we have a tendency at times to set our time with God last in our list of things to do. However, it is so important to God that He uses various means to try and get our attention back to Him. He uses things such as disappointments, heartbreak, sickness, temptation, thwarted desires, or perhaps either broken friendships or new friendships. When God finally gets through to us and has us all alone, that is when He begins to show us things and teach us. There are times when God took the 12 alone with Him to teach them and share with them, away from the crowds and distractions, and He does the same with us today. The disciples, as us today, will only be able to fully understand things through the help of the Holy Spirit.
Again, most of the greatest times is when God can get us away from everything and just be alone with Him. We tend to look around and be concerned with those around us, but God is only interested in us looking within ourselves, and beginning to deal with what God reveals to us. It is time we ask ourselves....do we spend real and quality time alone with God? "Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him."

(My Utmost for His Highest- Oswald Chambers)


I know that I am guilty of this. There are so many distractions that will try and steal my attention away from God and what He wants me to learn each day. I have come to realize that satan uses all kinds of things to try and make sure we do not get alone time with God. He will use phone calls, text messages, someone showing up at the door, kids needing something right at that moment.....along with many others. I have to discipline myself at times to turn my cell off, TV off, unplug the phone if I have to and just learn to "be still and know that He is God". I have also learned that if I don't get my time each day with God....my day does not go as well as when I do and ohhhhhh what blessings I get from spending time with Him!!

***Please be in prayer for the people in Haiti...my husband has family and friends there and still has not heard any word form them******