I want to encourage you to prioritise a daily quiet time with God. We understand the importance of communicating and spending regular time with our family and loved ones, in order to nurture and maintain our relationship and love for each other. How much more with God? When it comes to spending time with our family, people (men especially) often fall into the trap of saying that it’s quality time and not quantity of time that counts. Well, I’m here to tell you that saying is a load of old baloney, probably made up by an overworked executive to ease his guilty conscience. The fact is you can only enjoy quality time after you have put in quantity time first! Think about it! If, pretty much, the only time you spend with the Lord is maybe for an hour or so on a Sunday (every other week or three) well then, your personal relationship and prayer life is going to be sorely affected! Pastor, Tony Evans writes: “We all want to be remembered. And we all will be – just for different reasons… Sometimes, when we are going through a tough time, we call out to God, don’t we? We say, “Lord, remember me.” Now my question to you is, if you prayed that prayer today, what would God remember about you? Would He look down and say, “Yes, I remember you. You were faithful. You used what you had for my glory. You made me a priority. You served people. You were not selfish. You honoured me, and when you blew it, you confessed. I remember you.”

No one wants God to say, “Yes, I remember you. I remember that you never had any time for me. I remember that I was last on your priority list. I remember that you gave me the leftovers of your time and energy and resources. I remember that you cut corners in your work. I remember that you gave your family little of your time. Yes, I remember you.” – When you call on God, how is He going to remember you?

Tony Evans, Time To Get Serious, Illinois: Crossway Books, p.192