prayer
THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLITUDE
I have learned that if I am going to have a healthy prayer life. I must learn a balance between the work of ministry and the place of solitude in ministry.
Not just that, prioritizing time to be alone is not just healthy but essential.
This work of ministry can steal a person from themself if he is not careful. An intentional solitude is healing balm from the rigors of the calling.
So I practice small solitudes throughout my days. In the midst of meetings and e-mails, phone calls and pastoral zooms I build small margins of time to withdraw and listen to Scripture and pray. I have my longer sessions too, but I think it is the more frequent “little solitudes” throughout the day that keep me on track.
DO YOU PRACTICE SOLITUDE? HOW DO YOU DO IT?
DIGGING DEEPER DEVOTIONAL OCT. 16, 2025
DEAL 2025
Breaking Strongholds Aug. 2025
Many of the current words from the Lord for our congregation at Cornerstone have been about breaking down unhealthy thought patterns that keep us from God’s best. Here are two of those words that have led me to do some preaching around Colossians chapter 1.
From Carrie Hackett: Many feel unimportant and they are timid about going to the Lord because they feel so small and insignificant, they feel that what they have to offer the Lord is to small, but the Lord is saying give me the little you have just like the boy with the 5 barley loaves and 2 small fish,(he gave me ALL he had) and I will take the little and multiply it for my glory.
From Amanda Lillie:
“YOU MUST SEE WHAT I AM DOING.”
A Word from the Lord I hear often is…”You must see what I am doing.”
It reminds me of the Scripture in the gospel of John….”Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” John 5:19
Some of the things the Lord is doing around me are obvious.
He is working to build and improve relationship connections within the body of Christ.
He is working to build bridges between the Church and the wider community.
He is reaching out to people with His unconditional love.
He is activating powerful gifts within His Children
He is moving the world towards a big change.
Those are the big things I know and see He is doing. I also know there is more I need to see.
I am learning that I see best in the stillness.
If I am going to see Him and see more of what He is doing, it is only going to happen as I stop and observe.
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