Our new Proverbs 31 Ministries devotional book: Encouragement for Today: Devotions For Everyday Living just released and I am so excited to be giving away 3 copies of it today!
It includes several devotions by me and a bunch more from my dear friends and team mates at P31. Here’s a little bit more about what is inside
Pull away from the things that are pulling on you and find lasting encouragement for today.
For twenty years our P31 team has equipped and encouraged millions of women around the world to live in the power of God’s truths that apply to our everyday lives. Written by women from every walk of life, in Encouragement for Today you will find inspiration to live authentically and fully grounded in the Word of God.
Sharing from the realities of everyday life including highs and lows, humorous stories and tender moments, you’ll enjoy 100 daily devotions woven together with wit and wisdom. Pull away from all that is pulling on you and find lasting Encouragement for Today!
What do YOU like to do or where do you like to go to pull away from all that pulls on you and spend some time with God?
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Thankfully my bedroom is often a place of quiet and I can get into my Word, journal, and pray without really being interrupted. When I really need to pull away from everything to get re-centered on the Lord I take a drive to the coast and sit on the beach with my Bible and a journal. I just feel such peace and God’s presence near the ocean.
I meet the Lord in my walks… and quiet times-
Thank you P31
When I need to draw away from the world & be with God I simply go to my bedroom, sit on the end of my bed (an arthritic knee w/partial ROM keeps me from kneeling comfortably) & journal, pray or just break down & cry. I feel his loving presence comforting me & I have received so much healing in His presence!
I have a special chair in my living room that is my place to go and get away!
What a timely blog because for me as I realized just this weekend how very dry I was becoming and how very much I needed to pull away from everything pulling on me! Yesterday I woke up in the agony of a migraine after not having a migraine for years. After a prompting from the Holy Spirit, I grabbed my Bible and headed outside into a gorgeous God-given fall day. I opened up to the Psalms and allowed them minister to me in ways like never before. The words fell so fresh and new, a soft rain upon my very thirsty spirit. The changes I need to make were brought to my attention so adjustments can be made to lessen their pulling me apart. We serve an awesome Savoir Who knows the plans He has for us! I am going into talk less, listen more mode for the next few weeks to see where it leads!
To my bedroom but that isn’t till after kids are in bed.
In this season, I am finding it hard to find the time to be with God, in a quiet setting. I used to be able to do it in the morning after I dropped off y child at school. But at the last minute a few weeks before school was to start I decided to home-school. So now I’m finding it hard to have a quiet moment with God. When I am home-schooling my daughter. I could use some encouragement to get through this season. I would love to win one of these devotionals.
Praise God for your life praise God fro what you do
My car seems to be the best place at lunch time. I can go and read my bible, feel the fresh air and see the trees blowing in the wind. I feel refreshed all over again.
I love to go to the park and let the sunlight shine warmly and brightly upon me as I read my devotions and spend quite time with our Lord. This is not what I do everyday (I do many devotions a day) this is only in those times where I feel I need to get away and know I am with my Lord and there are no interruptions. Cell phones are shut off during this time.
I am so excited about this new devotional!! My quiet time with the Lord usually begins after I drop the kids off at school each day. I grab my cup of coffee, Bible, and journal. As I’m getting the coffee ready, I listen to Klove… I think it helps prepare my heart to “enter into His gates with praise”. I love to journal what God lays on my heart during our times together, then re-read those thoughts throughout the day or the days ahead. What I’m most in AWE over, is God’s perfect timing~ about everything!! It never fails that He will lead me to a certain passage of scripture, certain blog, or inspirational and encouraging facebook post that was EXACTLY what I *needed* to hear/read!! He does the same with the music I hear on Klove, too! Pulling away from ALL the outside “world” in my own quiet time with the Lord is AWESOME, and I look forward to it everyday!! If something happens and I’ve had to miss “our time”, I can certainly feel it 🙁 I have to be so careful to PLAN to spend time with God in another creative way that day (like praise & prayers in the car) or bedtime devotional time. Its like anything else~ you have to MAKE time for things that are important to you!! But, I’ve learned, once you MAKE it a habit, it becomes so much easier to incorporate into your daily routine and you MISS it when you don’t do it!! 🙂
I am going thru a bad storm looking for my place and encouragement to get thru this. I have NO friends or anyone to confide in, my spouse could not care less about me at this point. I am in search of my quiet place and time, and hopefully it doesn’t continue at 3am in the morning, however if that’s the time and place GOD speaks to my heart Nd hears my crys I will NOT miss it!
I get up early every morning just to have a few spare moments to myself before leaving for work. I sit in one of my favorite chairs that face out a bay window where I can see my wild bird feeder. I have a morning devotion book entitled “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young. It always seems that I am being fed the information that I will be needing for that day or the following OR, as in this morning; the Holy Spirit chastend me (because He loves me) that I neede to redirect my thinking and action on some complaining I was doing. It is so good to be unconditionally loved. And to think, I have been wallowing in the pit for the past two weeks. This devotional time brings me into God’s presence. “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born, I set you apart! Jeremiah 1:5
Every morning I go to the laundry room and start a load of laundry, then stop by my computer and read the Proverbs 31 devotion for the day. Later when everyone is gone for the day, I meet with God at my kitchen table. I’m always amazed but not surprised at how God speaks so personally to me. Many times the devotion and my Bible time will be speaking the same things, which is just confirmation of what I need to do or hear.
I like to sit out on our deck ,surrounded by God’s beautiful creation. I put on some praise and worship songs and just sit and soak in God’s presence.
I love to take my Bible or Bible study book and sit on my front porch early in the morning. It’s very quiet, but we have bird feeders and bird houses and I thoroughly enjoy watching the birds eat, take baths, drink, build nests. It’s very peaceful and I can ‘feel’ God all around me – it’s a great way to start my day! Now if I can just add the Encouragement for Today book that I win today, it will be that much better! 😉
First thing in the morning, I bring my coffee and my laptop out on my back patio. I have a small lake right behind my house and I watch the sun glistening off the water while I drink my coffee and read my online devotions.
My favorite escape to pull away and be with God is out in nature (the lake, woods etc.) I enjoy being under a large protecting tree – while a refreshing rain (not hard 🙂 ) rain comes.
I carved out some space in the spare bedroom that I can go each morning to spend some quiet time with God. Reading my bible and devotional books, I find the words seeping into my heart at just the right time when I need to hear them. This is the best part of my day.
I like to go to the beach and just watch the ocean. This is my way of getting away from it all. Reading the Bible and praying there makes God seem so close. Big issue–I live many hours from the nearest beach. I struggle with Pulling away when it is my family (husband & kids) that many times I need to pull away from.