A few years ago Paul and I decided that we wanted to learn how to love God. We couldn't figure out how you could love God: this huge being way out there that you can't touch or hear or talk to on the phone or "hang out" with... how can you love Him the way you love your kids or your spouse?
So we started doing morning devotions together. Every morning we would wake up at 5:15am before the kids would wake up. I got journals for each of us. One of us would open in prayer, then I would read one chapter (we just started at Genesis 1) of the Bible, then the other one would pray, and then we would journal. We would then talk about what we wrote.
Now I am a journal writer... Paul is not (or at least he wasn't). So at first we set a time limit of 5 minutes for the journal. In the beginning, we missed more days than not, but we stuck with it because we wanted to know how to love God and how to know Him.
Now (about 3 years later), we just finished Malachi this morning. We rarely miss. And God has shown up in a way that I can not explain with words. We tell people frequently that it feels as though the Holy Spirit pulls up a chair at our kitchen table with us in the morning. Amazing!
Psalm 14:2 says that God is looking down from Heaven for anyone who seeks Him, anyone who wants to understand Him. Wow! Amazing.
Paul and I have seen healings and deliverance, miracles... all sorts of things that we never even knew still existed outside of the Bible stories. We praise Him that He shows up, that He is faithful, that He loved us first.
I wanted to start to post some of what God is teaching us. May God bless you as you seek His Kingdom and His face.
Love, Stacey
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