Give God Your Attention

Pray – (1/2 minute)

Read – (2 1/2 minutes) – “  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
(Matthew 22:37)
   Passage: Philippians 4:8-9

         When God created you in His image, He gave you the capacity to learn, to think and to reason. Loving God with all your mind means to give God your attention so you can learn from Him, think good thoughts and reason things out with a Biblical world view. The world without Christ is upside down in its thinking, because “their mind is on earthly things.” (Philippians 3:19c)
        Our human nature is easily distracted, so we must discipline ourselves to give God our attention. The best way to do that is to start the morning by having a quiet time alone with God in His Word and in prayer. This does not have to be a 30 minute to an hour time. It can be a brief time in which you tell God you love Him, you thank Him for the new day and let Him speak to you through His Word and by reading a devotional thought or writing it out for yourself. Then, throughout the day, take advantage of listening to Christian music when time or travel allows and develop a pattern of being conscious of the Holy Spirit’s presence with you. Give God your attention, and grow deeper in your love for Him each day.    

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