Quiet Time #7 - Fighting Fire with Fire

Quiet Time #7 - Fighting Fire with Fire

- August 09, 2017

Jesus Prays in a Solitary Place

"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." Mark 1:35 NIV

Jesus took time out by Himself and spent it with our Heavenly Father, very early in the morning.

This fact has been well documented numerous times by those who were with Him during His earthly ministry. Many times He did so after an exhausting day, other times right before He performed something miraculous, or both.

It is not hard to see that He gets the strength to carry on from these "quiet times", alone with Our Father as He continuously seeks guidance for the new day and as He gives thanks for the one that just ended (and also giving thanks for what's going to happen).

Pattern

Jesus shows us this blueprint as our guide to which we can pattern our day to day ministry.

Scriptures says, our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil. This is why our day to day response is not to fight with our own flesh or with our own strength but to face the battle and to fight our adversary with the power of our Almighty Father as shown us by Jesus Himself, by God's Word, God's promises and God's constant presence and guidance.

Quiet Times The Series

Comments

The Shepherd and His Flock

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10 (NIV 84)

Disclaimer

If you have issues with Hillsong or Bethel or Elevation or any of the so-called heretical churches or preachers, we are not condoning any false teachings. There is always something we can find wrong in all churches, including the one we call ours. But there is one faith, there is one baptism, there is One God, there is One Spirit and One Savior, Jesus Christ. If we agree on all these then let's all work together for good. The Lord is coming back. Let us stop wasting time with nitpicking, criticizing other believers because they wear strange clothes or sing weird songs, or read a version of the bible we don't, or speak in tongues or do or believe something which we don't, instead let us do what God has really called us to do. God has called each one of us to do something. Let's do that.