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Living Quiet time out Loud

I have talked with many women who work hard to have quiet time with the Lord. They have their bible prepped and ready. Their prayer list is up to date. They get up in the morning. Some take time while the kids nap. Others find the only time they have is a few minutes if that in the bathroom with kids knocking on the door. And then there are the few that have no interruptions. But, when they are asked about what specifically captured them in that time, they cannot remember. Oops.


Marlon, my kids, and I went to a wonderful church in Washington State. During the school year, we'd participated in Care groups. The discussion was a time of rehearsing what the Pastor preached. Before Marlon and I went to that, we'd go over those questions with our kids at lunch on Sunday afternoon. It didn't shock me as much that our kids had to pull out their fill-in's from the message to look up how to answer the first question. That question, "what stood out to you in the message?" It was always the first question after the icebreaker. It did shock me more that the adults in the care group had to take out their outline to remember. This memory is not for condemnation. It does, however, make up my point.


One of the most important messages in the old testament, in my perspective, is God's command to remember. Throughout the Old Testament, he tells Israel to remember his covenant forever. He implores them to remember his miraculous rescues. The Scripture is replete with the importance of remembering. When they remembered, they were able to live out loud the time when God ministered to them. They were emboldened and went on their way to victory. Sadly they continued to forget all that God said to them quietly. For example, when he spoke through Moses, or Joshua, or prophets. When they forgot or ignored, they spent more time stumbling than being victorious.


What purpose does quiet time fill if it is so easily forgotten? Why sit in a service and listen to a message meant to equip if the moment you walk out, it is left on the seat you occupied? I truly do not think anyone desires these outcomes. Then, how do we live our quiet time out loud? We must take what we read or what we've heard from the pulpit and immediately meditate on it. Of course, I am not talking Eastern meditation. I am talking about rehearsing what you've read and looking for opportunities to put it to practice, empowered by the Holy Spirit. Make a particular truth you read or heard a part of your day or week. Repeat it, pray it, let your mind fixate on it until God makes it part of your living. That's living quiet time out loud. It will impact you and those that you come in contact with.


Even the busy mom can pull a verse from her quiet time and pin it to her shirt or put it under a magnet on her fridge and think on it throughout the day. She may find that it jumps in her mind at the most opportune time. It could make for irenic responses to the chaos of the day. This is living quiet time out loud. The same goes for the message preached from the pulpit you sat under for probably 30 minutes. Take what was said, write it out, review it, and put it into practice. It wasn't meant to stay quietly on the seat you leave behind.


Quiet time isn't meant to stay quiet. It is meant to make a difference in our walks with the Lord. It is meant to be carried through our day. It is meant to impact not only the one doing it but all those that come across our path. It is meant to be remembered so that we live it out loud.

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