The Importance of Quiet Time

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And we just 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.160 love you and pray for you every single day. If 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.040 you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.360 and see us. We give you a personal invitation, but 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.679 we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so much 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.080 for tuning in today. I'd like to get started with 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.360 something funny each week. And this was sent to me 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.920 by a ninety four year old woman that watches us 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:26.400 every week. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.560 And see what you think. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.680 And eighty five year old widow went on a blind 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.560 date with a ninety year old man. When she returned 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.480 to her daughter's house later that evening, she seemed upset. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.320 The daughter asked mom, what's wrong. She said, I had 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.080 to slap him in the face three times. She said, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.040 you mean he tried to get fresh. She said, no, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.400 I thought he was dead. All right, hold up your 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.960 bibles and say it like you mean it. Ready, this 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.799 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.919 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.160 what it says I can do. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:00.680 Today. Hey, I will be. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.600 Taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.160 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.600 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.919 I want to talk to you today. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:18.200 About the importance of spending quiet time alone each day 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.560 and learning to let your mind totally relax. We live 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.840 in a very noisy society. We've got cell phones always ringing. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.840 We drive to work into traffic with the news constantly on. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.840 You get home and the TV's blaring and doorbells ringing. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.600 Sometimes you've got kids that are screaming. One of the 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.119 biggest stress inducers there is is simply noise. And when 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.640 we're constantly being bombarded by all this clutter, it's so 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.360 easy to get out of balance. We have to learn 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.920 to get quiet. And David said in Psalm twenty three, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.080 the Lord is my shepherd. He leads me beside the 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.640 still waters. Well, let me ask you, how long has 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.160 it been since you've been beside those still waters where 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:07.440 you got quiet, where your mind wasn't racing, thinking about 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.680 your problems, thinking about what you need to do. See, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.120 we can let our bodies rest, but we've got to 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.640 learn to let our minds rest. And every day we 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.920 should have a period of quiet time where we get 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.800 alone and do nothing more. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.440 But get quiet and enjoy the silence. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.479 Not get away and pray, Not get away and tell 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:28.720 God all your problems. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.920 Not get away and think about what you need to do. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.160 Now just the time to get alone and let our 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.640 minds totally unwind. Jesus said in the Book of Matthew, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.200 come to me, all you that are weary, and I 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.919 will refresh and restore your souls. Well, our soul is 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.400 our mind, our soul is our emotions. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.720 And God is saying, if you'll just. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.880 Come to me on a regular basis and get quiet 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.160 and tap into my peace, then I'll refresh you and 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:57.839 restore you. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.000 It's one thing to rest physics. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.559 I know people that take vacations, but they never rest 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:08.080 their minds. They're always worried, always uptight about something. And 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.880 if you're not careful, you can do that so long 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.159 that you don't ever really unwind. You can get to 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.480 the point where you don't even know how to relax, 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.839 and that will start to affect you physically. You can't 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.560 sleep well at night, you've got digestive problems, you're uptight 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.680 down in here, and it's all because you're never getting 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.360 back to that place of peace. And that's not the 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.080 way our bodies were meant to function. And if we're 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.760 going to stay healthy, then we've got to take time 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.479 every day to get alan to the quietest place we 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.040 can find and just totally put our mind in neutral 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.320 and relax. You've got to get beside the still waters. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.680 Peace rebuilds your energies. Being quiet and calm and still 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.479 helps to restore what the world has pulled out of you. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.920 A lot of times we think of relaxing as unwinding, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.680 but really when we get quiet, we get back to 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.520 that place of peace. A better way to describe it 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.000 is it's balancing us. And most of the experts say 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.640 that we need at least fifteen minutes of quiet time 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.880 for every twenty four hour period. And I don't know 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.920 of one person that's really happy and really peaceful that 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.760 doesn't have some type of quiet time on a regular basis. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.599 And you may want to do it in the morning 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.000 when you first get up. Just start the day off 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.039 in peace. Don't make the mistake of rushing around, being 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.920 laid getting upset, and all of a sudden at the 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.839 very beginning of the day, you're on edge. Now get 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.599 into that place of peace, get up and maybe read 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.360 your Bible and pray, and then just take a few 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.680 minutes to enjoy the silence. Just close your eyes. Or 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.120 maybe you want to watch the sun come up. Maybe 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.200 you want to just enjoy the trees, enjoy God's creation, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:51.800 but don't think about anything. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.840 Just have a time of peace. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.520 And this is something that so many of us have 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.240 forgotten how to do. I know my personality is to 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.719 always be on the go. I'm very driven. I'm always 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.760 thinking about the next thing that I should be doing. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:06.280 Now. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.920 I used to think man, taking time to get quiet, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.160 taking time to be alone, let my mind unwine, that's boring. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.600 That's a waste of time. I don't want to do that. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.840 But now I've realized that's not a waste of time. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.640 That's a part of being balanced. That's a part of 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.240 staying whole mentally and emotionally. And the scripture says here 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.080 in Psalm forty six, verse ten. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.119 Be still and know that I am God. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.080 You need to get still every single day if you're 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.600 going to expect God to refresh you and re energize you. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.960 This is not something that's just nice to do if 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.960 you don't have anything else going on. No, when you 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.200 get quiet, when you let your mind totally relax. That 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.320 should be a priority in your life. That's what keeps 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.080 us in balance. And some of you are real good 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.160 at giving out to everybody else. You're always on the go, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.120 taking care of your children, doing things for others. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.760 You've got a heart of going. But listen, you've got 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.640 to learn to take care of yourself. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.520 Your spiritual and emotional well being should be your number 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.360 one priority. Should be way up there on your list. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.320 And understand, nobody else can take care of yourself for you, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.320 and you're doing your family a disservice. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.880 If you're always. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.239 Emotionally and mentally worn out, you need to take time 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.120 for yourself. Get alan every day, get quiet, put your 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.560 mind in neutral, let God's peace restore you and re 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.920 energize you. I know this man that's a CEO of 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.080 a very large corporation. He's got an extremely busy schedule. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.679 People are always vying for his attention. But every day, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.760 once in the morning and once in the afternoon, he 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.600 goes into his office, closes the door, turns off his 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:48.320 cell phone. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:49.160 You ask his. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.280 Secretary not to interrupt him, and he takes what he 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.040 calls a ten minute peace break, where he just closes 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.839 his eyes, puts his mind in neutral and totally unwinds, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.880 and he says that's what helps him to stay balanced. Well, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.760 he's tapping into that peace, He's tapping into that inner silence. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.760 That's where God refreshes us. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.480 And do you know you can take a ten minute 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.480 vacation in your mind, even in the middle of a 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.840 busy day, if you can just get quiet, Picture yourself 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.600 sitting by an ocean, picture yourself watching the sun go down, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.400 and soak up God's peace. Don't go through the day 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.920 all upset and on edge and irritable. Learn to get 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.840 yourself back into balance. It's interesting back in the old days, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.880 when people got sick, they'd send them to a sanatorium 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.600 to recover, and that was a place where they could 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.480 totally relax and totally unwind. And they found when they 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.920 did this that their immune systems would get much stronger. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.200 And there's no telling how much sickness and disease we 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.679 could avoid if we just learned to stay balanced, if 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.000 we just take a little quiet time every single day. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.680 I was reading about how our muscles have two states, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.480 a stress state. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.600 And a relaxed state. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.520 When they're in that stress state, the blood vessels constrict 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.760 and this increases our blood pressure. But when we're relaxed, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.440 that muscle tissue lengthens out and the blood vessels open up, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.840 and of course that will reduce our blood pressure. I 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.560 remember the first time I ever had a massage. This 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.679 was years and years ago. The messuse he kept telling 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.480 me again and again to relax, Hey, just relax, and 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.359 I thought to myself, I am relaxed. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.520 He told me afterwards, in. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.240 His fifteen years of doing that he had never felt 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.280 anyone as uptight as I was. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.360 He didn't mean that as a compliment. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.960 Not tight like working out, but that was tight from 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.880 being stressed out. But as I said, my personality type 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.240 didn't know how to relax. I had trained myself to 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.520 always be on the go, and I had to make 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.800 some adjustments in my life. Now I take time every 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.760 day to get quiet, to meditate, to just totally wind 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.959 down physically as well as emotionally. Now I learned to 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.160 get some of the clutter out of my life. I 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.760 had to turn off the radio in the car sometimes, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.240 I learned to turn my TV off, and not to 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:09.440 always have to have. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:10.120 Something to do. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.800 Sometimes it's good to just allow ourselves to be bored. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.600 Don't get to that point where you always have to 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.760 have something entertaining you, where every spare moment of the 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.439 day you run turn the TV on or you run 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.240 go do that choice. Now, that's a habit that you've developed, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.360 and it's going to end up keeping you out of balance. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.640 You've got to understand it's good to have times where 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.360 you just do nothing. It's healthy to have times where 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.120 you just have a two hour period to just totally. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.000 Let your mind relax. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.720 Don't put anything into it, don't go read a book, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.200 don't go call your friend. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:43.520 Just put it in neutral. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.400 Hey, you say, Joel, I really need to clean my garage, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.120 or I really need to go run these errands. You know, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.600 there will always be things to do. You have to 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.240 make it a priority to take time every day. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.119 To relax, and not just physically. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.400 I'm talking more today about emotionally and mentally. A friend 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.480 of mine told me how one day the power went 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.680 off in her home, and this lady is very high strung, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.160 and she got so up tight and so on edge 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.520 just waiting for it to come back. After about fifteen minutes, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.200 she finally thought to herself, well, I can't just sit here. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.080 There's nothing to do. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.040 I can't make any calls, I can't watch TV, I 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:19.160 can't walk on my computer. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:20.520 And she just couldn't stand that. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.160 So she decided that she'd get in a car and 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.240 drive across town to a relatives where they still had power. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.760 But she got in the garage and she soon found 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:29.719 out that the garage. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.560 Door wouldn't go up. She said she finally got the message. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.719 She said, Okay, God, I'm gonna go back and I'm 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.640 gonna make myself get quiet. I'm gonna make myself just 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.600 relax and see. We can get to the point where 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.920 we're so addicted to having something to do. Our mind 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.320 is always thinking, We're always planning that next thing that 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.040 we've totally forgotten how to relax. Sometimes we wonder why 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.160 we're up tight, why we can't sleep at night. No, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.040 we need to have regular periods of downtime. Really, we 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.360 need to retrain in ourselves to get quiet more often, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.480 to have less clutter in our lives. It's when we're 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.480 really at peace, when our mind is really relaxed, that's 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.720 when God refreshes us and restores us. And some of you, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.200 you know you haven't been this way in years and years. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:17.160 From the time you. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:18.920 Get up in the morning to the time you go 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.240 to bed at night, your mind is constantly working. You're 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.920 always worried about that child, or uptight about your finances, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.000 or maybe you've got a whole lot of stress at work. No, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.360 you've got to make some adjustments. The more the world 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.640 pulls out of you, the more you need to get 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.120 back to your place of peace, The more time you 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.640 need to spend in silence, in God's presence. It's in 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.000 that stillness that God renews you and gives you the 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.880 strength that you really need. I heard somebody say every 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.560 night before we go to bed, we should totally empty 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:52.480 out our mind. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.360 We should let go of all. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.040 Of our worries, all of our disappointments, what we didn't 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.440 do right, the things we have to do the next day. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.280 We need to totally unload that and. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.320 Go to bed with our mind at ease, at rest, 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.520 at peace, knowing that God is in control. And it's 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.880 so important what we put into our minds right before 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.080 we go to bed. Don't lie there in your bed 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.440 and watch the news and let that fill your mind 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.239 and think about all the killings and all the accidents 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.640 and all the turmoil in the world. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.960 How can we expect to sleep well after that? 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.160 In fact, studies tell us the last things we watch 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.680 or the last thing we think about before we go 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.000 to sleep. Subconsciously, that goes down into us, and many 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.320 times we dream about it. It affects our sleep, and 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:40.920 we wonder why we toss and turn. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.720 We can't sleep well. Could be because what we're putting 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:44.680 into our minds. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.040 We're worried about the project at work, we're upset with 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.440 that child. Well, let me encourage you go to bed 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.320 each night meditating on the goodness of God. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.000 Before you go to sleep. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.880 Just close your eyes and say, Father, thank you for 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.440 another good day. Thank you that I can lie down 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.400 in peace. Thank you that you have good things in 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.840 store for me. See end the day thanking God for 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.880 his goodness, and take it one step further. Start the 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.520 day thanking God for his goodness. When you get out 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.080 of bed in the morning, first thing you should say, Father, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.000 thank you for another good day. I'm excited about today. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.280 I know You've got good things in store. But start 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.760 it in peace and end it in peace, and every 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.360 day at least once. Maybe you want to do it 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.520 more often, but learn to empty out your mind, all 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:34.240 your worries, all your concerns, all your frustrations, totally unload 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.320 that and let God fill you with his peace. And 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.000 it's so important that we get the clutter out of 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.720 our lives. Why don't you learn to turn some things off. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.280 Some of you drive to work every day with the 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.600 news going on into your mind ninety to nothing. You know, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.920 every accident and every killing and every score and all 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.960 this information. Now, why don't you try turning that off 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.840 for a little while and just enjoy the silence, give 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.920 your mind to rest. Or maybe you want to meditate 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.600 on a scripture, maybe you want to just enjoy the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.760 beauty of God's creation. But it would do us all 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.920 good to see how much of the clutter we could eliminate. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:12.440 From our lives. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.840 And don't get me wrong, I love to watch the news, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.880 but that is not healthy to have that stuff going 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.840 into you twenty four hours a day. Now, I'm asking 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.400 you today to take inventory of what you're allowing into 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.960 your mind. How much peace do you have, how much 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.120 quiet time do you spend each day, and what kind 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.880 of adjustments could you make in order to get some 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.400 of the clutter out of your life. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.520 Remember, it's when we're really at. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.280 Peace that God refreshes us and re energizes us. And 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.640 I believe that we should even have a physical spot 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.600 that we could call our place a peace. That's where 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.880 we go unwind and let God renew us. I know 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.520 at my house, back in our bedroom, we've got this 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.040 big green lazy boy chair. It's very comfortable, it's very 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.840 quiet back there, and every day that's where I go 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.320 oh to spend a few minutes to just totally unwind. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.080 Sometimes I'll just lie back and meditate for ten minutes. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.920 Sometimes I'll just look out the window and stare at 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.360 the trees and enjoy God's creation. Are the times I'll 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.920 just sit there and breathe real deep and think about 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.439 the goodness of God in my life. But that's my 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.239 place of peace now, I have an appointment with it. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.120 Every single day I find some time that I can 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.520 go unwind. That's the time I let go of my worries, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.480 I let go of my frustrations. I don't think about 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.200 what I have to do tomorrow. I don't think about 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.880 the future. I just get still and learn to enjoy 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.800 that silence. And do you know, I can feel myself 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:43.520 being renewed. I can feel myself being refreshed. Being still 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.760 has a calming effect. You can be all up tight 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.440 and frazzled. There have been days I've come home where 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.159 it's been so busy, so hectic, so stressful. But I 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.320 know if I can just get back to my place 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.280 of peace and spend ten or fifteen minutes there, I 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.880 can feel my whole attitude start change. Well, what's happening 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.600 really is I'm just getting myself back into balance. And 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.040 when you go all day with people pulling on you 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.479 at work at home, you're dealing with a whole lot 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.600 of stressful situations. You too need to learn to get 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.520 back into your place of peace. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.200 You don't have to be there long. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.240 Sometimes, if you're there ten minutes to just totally unwind 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.920 and totally put your mind in neutral, you'll come out 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.919 of their feeling like a different person. The problem with 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.840 many of you today is that you're not spending any 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.919 quiet time to speak of. The only time that you 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.480 would consider yourself getting quiet is when you pray. But 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.560 the mistake most people make is when they pray, they 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.000 do all the talking. They talk to God like a 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.240 machine gun, giving him. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:44.960 All their orders. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.400 God, you got to help me do this. God, change 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:48.879 my husband. God, fix my boss. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:49.040 God. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.560 I need that promotion. God, I need wisdom. God show 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.360 me what to do. God, why don't you ever talk 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:58.280 to me? No, you know as well as I do. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.800 God can't get a word in it. Why don't you 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.280 quit doing all the talking and start doing more of 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.840 the listening. Get quiet before God, be still and know 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.000 that he is your God. You've got to come back 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.119 to that place of peace. God speaks to us in 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.159 a still small voice. If you're ever going to hear 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.320 his voice, you too are gonna have to get still 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.600 and some of you. The only reason you're not making 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.520 good decisions, the only reason you don't have clear direction, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.399 is because you're not taking time to listen and understand. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:31.240 God already knows our. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.160 Needs before we ask, And even if he didn't, I'm 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.280 sure that we've told him so many times it's ingrained 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:41.600 in his memory. And if you normally spend ten, twelve 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.080 to fifteen minutes praying each day, why don't you take 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.960 part of that time and just get quiet and listen 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.320 to what God is saying to you. You may not 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.560 hear something every single time, but at least you'll get 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.240 back to that place of peace where God can restore 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.359 you and refresh you. I know some of my best 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.720 sermon ideas have come the middle of the night. I 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.159 wake up and it's quiet, my mind is at rest, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.760 it's totally peaceful, and all of a sudden, the ideas 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.840 start coming. I'll probably get up two or three times 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.840 a week during the middle of the night and make 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.639 some notes. Well, I'm sure God would speak to me 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.399 during the daytime, but the problem is most of the 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.280 time we're too busy, our lives are too cluttered. Now 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.560 I've found the more quiet time I can spend and 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.800 the more peace I can stay in, the easier it 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.560 is for me to hear from God. The clearer direction 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.920 I have, the better ideas I get. And you need 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.480 to make sure that you have your own place of peace. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.960 Make an appointment with it every single day. Just go 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.560 there to totally relax, don't think about anything, just put 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.560 your mind in neutral. I've learned to just breathe, real 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.880 deep breaths and totally relax, not shallow breaths. Breathe from 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.399 way down in here that naturally relaxes you. And I 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.159 know at first you may think like I did. All 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.520 that's boring, that's a waste of time. But if you'll 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.680 just make yourself do it and get into that place 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.240 of peace, it'll be something that you can't live without. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.520 Another great way to relax is to get still and 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.359 to meditate. I'm not talking about meditating on your problems. 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.000 I'm talking about meditating on God's word. You know, sometimes 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.760 when we think about meditation and think, oh, Joel, that's 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:20.880 far out, that's not for me. You know, we think 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.240 of the Tibetan monks sitting up there on the hills 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.640 with their legs crossed. But meditation is all through the Bible. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.960 It's very healthy. The Bible talks about how we should 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.920 meditate on God's word, how we should keep our. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:34.200 Minds stayed on him. 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.080 And to meditate simply means to ponder the same thing 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.800 over and over again in your mind. Really, meditation is 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:45.159 the same principle as worrying. But when you worry, you 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.400 are meditating on the enemy's thoughts. You're thinking them again 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.280 and again. Now, the next time you drive to work, 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.320 instead of letting the news fill your mind, why don't 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.000 you pick out a few scriptures and begin to meditate. 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.240 On them things like I can do all things through Christ. 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.919 I am more than a conquer I am blessed and 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.960 I cannot be cursed. Everything I touch prospers and succeeds. 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:09.720 See empty your. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.920 Mind of all that worry, and just begin to meditate 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:14.480 on what God says about you. 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.639 And let me encourage as well. To create an atmosphere 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:20.000 of peace in your home. 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.840 Some of you don't even really realize it, but things 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.840 are always so cluttered at your house. The phone is 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.040 always ringing off the wall, the TV is always blaring. 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.280 You sit down to eat dinner with your family and 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.240 the dishwasher sounds like a jackhammer. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.680 No, learn to create an environment of peace. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:42.320 Your atmosphere has a tremendous effect upon you and on 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.199 your family. Now, I know sometimes at our homes, I 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.480 gotta put my foot down, say you know what, it's 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.480 too noisy around here. We're gonna have some peace. We're 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.760 gonna turn off the TV. Let's turn off the cell phone. 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:55.760 We're not gonna go running through the house. I don't 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.159 want anybody banging on the piano. We're gonna have some 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:01.520 times of quiet. And if you're gonna have a healthy 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.040 home and more Importantly, if you're gonna keep your own sanity, 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.639 you're gonna have to do like I do sometime and 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.000 just put your foot down and get more peace. 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:10.320 In your home. 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.120 And don't get me wrong, I love activity. I love 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.600 to have fun. Sometimes after a Sunday service, we'll have 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.880 a dozen kids over at our house, running, playing, having 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.440 a good time. And that's all great until about seven o'clock. 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:26.160 Then it's time to have peace. 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.480 Our son, Jonathan, he loves to play his new electric guitar. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.520 He only knows one way to play it, and that's loud. 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.040 It's not enough that our whole household can hear it. 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:39.480 He wants to make sure people across the country can 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:39.880 hear it. 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:43.720 But be aware of what kind of atmosphere is in 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:44.240 your home. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:46.960 As I said, sometimes we wonder why we're up tight 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.520 while we're on edge, but it's because there's too much chaos, 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:54.960 the phones ringing, the doorbell and just the TV's blaring. Know, 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.440 the overall atmosphere in your home should be very peaceful. 0:23:58.480 --> 0:23:59.399 Make the adjustments. 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.680 One other thing, learn not to bring stress into your home. 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:06.600 By that, I mean what happens at the office you 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.240 need to leave at the office. You may have had 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.040 a real tough day and you're on edge and people 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.879 didn't treat you right. But don't make the mistake of 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:18.680 bringing that junk home. Some people take all their worries 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:21.080 and all their frustrations and they just dump them on 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.240 their family members. Now lead that at the office. Keep 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:27.359 peace in your home. I heard about this man that 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:30.280 had a very stressful job, and he would come home 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:33.320 every night so uptight and so on edge that his 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:36.160 family didn't even want to be around him. And finally 0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:38.840 he realized what was happening, and he decided to make 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:39.679 some changes. 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:41.080 And on his way. 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:44.080 Home, about ten minutes from his house, there was this park, 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.240 and so instead of coming straight home and dumping all 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.119 that turmoil on his family, he would pull into the 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:53.879 park and just take five or ten minutes to totally unwind. 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:56.800 That was where he emptied his mind of all of 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.120 his worries, all of his frustrations, all of his disappointm 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.120 That was his place of peace. He had so much 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.600 pulled out of him during the day. He went there 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:08.680 to get back in balance, to get quiet, to get peaceful. 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:11.560 And his wife said, it's a totally different atmosphere at 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:12.200 our home now. 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.360 It's fun, it's loving. We're happier than we've ever been. 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:18.840 See, don't make the mistake of bringing that stress with you. 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:21.879 Doesn't just affect you, it affects your family. And I 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:25.080 know some of you have very stressful jobs. You work hard, 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:28.000 and then you drive in the traffic home thirty minutes, 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:30.840 forty five minutes fighting the traffic, but you've always got 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:34.600 the news going on. You're so bombarded, so cluttered. Let 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:36.880 me encourage you. On your way home, that's the time 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:39.600 you need to begin to unwind. Why don't you turn 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:45.159 the news off, turn the radio down, drive slower, breathe deeper. 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:46.560 And begin to relax your mind. 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:48.959 You got to get back to that place of peace, 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:52.080 get back in balance. If you have to pull into 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:54.280 a park like that, man, take a couple of minutes 0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:57.879 to totally unwind. But don't make the mistake of bringing 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.520 that stuff home with you. It's not fair to your children, 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:03.879 and it's not fair to your spouse and parents. I've learned, 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.920 the more peaceful we are, the more peaceful our kids 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:09.679 are gonna be. We set the tone for our homes. 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:12.840 I know one time it had been very noisy at 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:15.600 our house, and I could feel myself getting on edge, 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:17.119 and I thought, well, I'm gonna go back to my 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:19.760 green chair and get quiet and just have a little 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:22.560 while to relax. But just as I started going back there, 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:25.600 the doorbell rang and some friends came over and their 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:27.920 daughter was selling something, and so I went and got 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:29.480 my check book and I bought that. 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:30.840 We visited a little while. 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.840 Then Jonathan needed some help with his homework, and then 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:35.240 something else came up I had. 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:36.639 To deal with, and it seemed like on and on 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:37.120 and on. 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:40.320 Well, finally I got back to my green chair and 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.320 I sat down, and I was ready to have some peace. 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:45.639 But I wasn't there thirty seconds until I heard this 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:51.119 real loud, fast knocking on the house. It was so annoying. 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:53.840 I thought, what in the world is this? And so 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:56.719 I went outside and do you know, right above our 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:01.159 bedroom window there was a woodpecker and he was just 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:03.720 pecking away right there while I was trying to get 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.640 some rest, and I thought, man, when it rains, it pours. 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:09.719 I said, God, I really love your creation, but this 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:11.159 little woodpecker. 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:12.160 Is about to come on home to see you. 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:18.280 I didn't hurt him, but with a few rocks I 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:22.720 helped him to change his location. But my point is 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:25.560 the enemy will do everything he can to keep you 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:28.320 from having peace. He doesn't want you to get quiet, 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.600 He doesn't want you to be refreshed and restored. 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:32.840 He doesn't want us to enjoy our lives. 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:35.040 If you're gonna have peace, you're gonna have to put 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:37.680 your foot down, be determined, and have it on purpose. 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:40.040 And some of you know you haven't been by those 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:42.920 still waters in a long long time. You hardly take 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:45.960 any time alone. It do you good if you had 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:48.119 to to even hire a babysitter. 0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:50.480 Just to get you some quiet time, says in Isaiah 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:51.280 thirty fifteen. 0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:55.600 In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. That simply 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:58.800 means when we get quiet, when we get in peace, 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:00.880 that's when we're gonna have the strength. 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:02.280 We need to fight the good fight of faith. 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.480 So let me challenge you again, take time every day 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:09.800 to get quiet in the stillness God renews you. The 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:12.080 more the world pulls out of you, the more time 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:14.520 you need to spend in God's presence and learn to 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:16.720 get rid of the clutter, turn off things that you 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:19.720 don't need, and every day make sure at least once 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:22.560 you empty out your mind of all your worries and concerns. 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:25.399 If you do that, God promises to fill you with 0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:27.320 his peace. He'll refresh you, re. 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:30.600 Energize, you'll rebuild you. You'll experience the victories that He 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:33.800 has in store. Amen. How many of you receive it today? Well, 0:28:33.880 --> 0:28:34.359 I know you do. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.720 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:42.520 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:47.160 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:52.080 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:53.400 you my Lord and savior. 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:57.040 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:28:57.080 --> 0:29:00.000 got born again. Get in a good Bible based te 0:29:00.480 --> 0:29:01.720 keep God first place. 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:04.200 He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of. 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:08.360 Thank you for listening to the Joelo's Dean podcast. 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