I have a really cool give away today.
My new BFF Nancy Leigh Demoss is giving away 3 copies of her book “The Quiet Place” to 3 lucky readers. It’s a 366 devotional that will draw you closer to the heart of God.
All right, all right – so I’m deluded and NLD isn’t really giving away the books and I guess she isn’t really my best friend, but Moody Publishers is donating the books and that’s good enough for me!
So here’s the deal: leave a comment telling me why it’s hard for you to find a quiet place in your life.
Tomorrow I’ll choose 3 of you to win.
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Oh, and did I mention that I’m throwing in a Starbucks card with each book just because I want to?
Happy Friday!
You had me at NLD….then Sbux put me over the edge, LOL! For me, plain and simple: sinful lack of discipline! Too much to do, and I let competing priorities distract me. Would be better for me to set aside a specific time, but with my current schedule, it ends up being all over the map.
With an organizationally-challenged husband, 3 rambunctious kids, 2 dogs, a cat, a full-time job outside the home and running my own business on the side, there really isn’t a whole lot of down time in my world. Finding a quiet time feels impossible sometimes with all the “noise” going on in this crazy brain of mine! I have learned though that you need to MAKE TIME for God, even if it means just driving to work in silence while you focus on “talking it out” with our precious Lord. I am fortunate enough to have time alone in the car as well as the bus while I commute to downtown Chicago from the burbs each day. That has become something I look forward to because it is my time with Him and I don’t have anyone interrupting me to ask me for something. It’s become the chunk of time in my day that I have learned to treasure.
What I need to do every day is to pray and have quiet time first before even rising out of bed. I do this sometimes, but I need to do this each and every day. It is then that I will guarantee a great starting point to my day. I need to ask God for that quiet peace that only He can provide.
It is hard for me to find a quiet place as I am the only believer in my family. They do not understand the need for time with the Lord and the Word, as a result I get interrupted often or wait til a time when I am alone (rare!) BUT, I know that they are seeing a faithful mom and wife and will one day open their hearts to Him.
Used to be hard to find a quiet place when I had kids @ home. Literally needed to make myself a prayer closet, which I loved. Nowadays–with kids out of the house–I have plenty of room. Now it’s my own choices that strive with that “quiet place”. The busyness of life and ministry, FB, email. Stuff like that can, and sometimes do, steal the quiet. But not most of the time. Maturity in Christ is a wonderful thing. It teaches you to long for and seek out the quiet places because they are your lifeline.
It’s hard to find quiet time for me cuz the phones ringing,me answering texts. sick mom&sis.studying. I guess its called life and me not prioritizing well at all.I do pray alot in my car.that’s clearly not enough. I’m going to make my goal to do better with that. ok bye hava great weekend
The “spiritually correct” answer would be the warfare that surrounds us when we pray, but for me it involves being easily distracted and misplaced priorities. Thank you for th eopportunity to win this devotional book. God bless you!
Since I have young children (6 yrs, 3 yrs, and 6 months) I have a hard time finding a quiet place in my life. But every day I try and I feel so refreshed when I meet with The Lord. I miss The Lord when I don’t regularly spend time with him.
How grand when I do find a quiet place…between working a full time job, teaching group exercise classes during my lunch hour, helping my young daughter care/raise for her son, our grandson between her school and night shifts and taking care of my aging parents….yes, grand when I find that quiet place, but I need to spend time with God to give me the strength every single day…because with Him, all things are possible!
For me at least I always blame it on the internet.
In a sense it’s like my mind is looking at a webpage. You see a hundred different headlines and no reason, really, to focus on a single one. I actually do, somewhat, think that’s partially to blame today. We’re conditioned to process small bits of information. Text messages, internet pages, twitter, sound bites, nothing really in depth. My answer to the original question is that I find myself distracted, horribly, sometimes.
it’s hard for me to find a quiet place right now b/c I literally only have about 4 or 5 quiet hours in the day & that’s when I’m sleeping! I have an almost 3 month old who wakes during the night at least once & an almost 3-yr old who has decided he’s out on naps these days & I rarely leave the house without at least one of them. in the times that both might actually be sleeping, I alternate between catching up on laundry, washing bottles or other dishes or trying to clean up the tornado that seems to have hit all rooms. my husband is a part-time student while working full-time & we continue to lead small group & do our best to minister to those folks. just last night I told my husband I long for the days of quiet times. my perfectionism pulls me in so many directions right now when things seem so out of order. I am able to spend some good time in prayer during the nights while I am up feeding my daughter, but I truly long for a quiet place with the Lord in the middle of all the noise around me right now.
I find it hard for me to get into my quiet time with God especially during the week, because work then home to do homework with kids, dinner,, time with hubby before he goes to work the midnight shift, then put kids to bed and start to whine down myself I am exhausted and fall asleep. Not an excuse, I beat myself up everyday when I don’t get that alone time with him. It literally eats me up inside. Still working on it.
Now that my two oldest are in school, I am blessed with a two hour ‘nap’ time in the middle of the day (when my two little ones nap/rest). . . .perfect to spend time with God in His Word. Praying for a year where my attitudes, desires, words, etc. are much more like Jesus’.
Finding a quiet place in my life today is difficult, I think because of the every day demands from my little ones. I chuckle at some of the comments from our moms group regarding this same topic. One mom said the earlier she gets up the earlier her little girl gets up. She has even reverted to sneaking out of bed as quietly as she can, making the coffee the night before (drinking cold coffee), and crawling on all fours to get to her Bible and sit on the sofa to have her devotions.
I live in a trailer with seven other people, my husband, five children and my mother in law. It is crowded,but I am not complaining this is where God has placed us at this time. The only room there is an privacy in is the bathroom and even there it is interrupted. My oldest is 21 and my youngest is 12.so between them all they are up early for school and up later then me. My mother in law when she is awake has the tv on so it is almost always noisy. I have learned to tune out the noise and I try to walk 3 days a week. This year memorizing James has helped me keep a quiet place in my mind.
Setting aside the various responsibilities in my life and refocusing on God’s word and the Spirit’s quiet voice requires intentionality.
I wish you had asked two months ago…lol. I could have boosted my prided and said it hasn’t been an issue….too vital of a time to ever miss, and my favorite time of the day. Even after losing my home with our eight children (who I home educate) and living between relatives and a friend for 2+ years, taking online paralegal classes, and working odd jobs (in my spare time…lol) to pay the bills – Not having my quiet time wasn’t even an option although it could be a challenge to find a quiet place at times! Then about six weeks, my former husband moved me and the children into a beautiful home in the country, and three weeks ago my daughter and newborn grandbaby came to live with us.
Joy! Blessing! Misplaced priorities??? Sigh.
I have been hard pressed to not rush my morning quiet time, or to not doze off when I get a moment to read my Bible or soak in God’s presence. I find myself letting it slip, and sleeping in just a few more minutes in the morning…heaven! I appreciate your asking this question today as it was a much needed reminder to put that time and my relationship with God back in the priority spot it deserves. I was wondering why I was so wiped out all the time!!!
NOW I remember! Glad I took time to catch up on mail today. You are so faithful to speak those words I need to hear….just when I need them most! 
By the way, I too love Nancy Leigh DeMoss….wish she were my bff as well!
I already have the book (although I did run upstairs to pull it out of the box it was in and put it on my nightstand….obviously needed a refresher read!), so not commenting to win…but to thank you and keep myself humble! Ugh! Once again you have encouraged, exhorted, and blessed me….all in a ‘simple’ question.
Still hope to meet you in person….here in the land of the living…someday. <3 May God bless you richly, Lina!
I am stuck at home currently as I recently had surgery. My healthy life is working, driving, being a busy mom, home manager, family caregiver and all the other things that happen in life. Seemingly running 24/7. Now that I am home, quiet and peacefulness is unsettling because it is so foreign to me, but a reminder from God of all that I can have if I choose to slow down.
I’m a seminary student, so finding a quiet time to read anything other than assigned reading requires extra commitment! I would love to read this book!
Hey E-Dub, I was right there with you at first, I thought, should I respond to the comment requests… or not… But the more I read, the more the Holy Spirit ministered to me, it made me wanna take part in the conversations.
Thank You LIna, for making this happen, and thanks for caring for us.
Quiet place;
With the ugly I see with at work, I long for that quiet place. My best place is to Worship the Father until I drop to my knees, then comes that special place before the Father like none other.
John
It’s hard for me to find a quiet place in my life because every time I try to sneak away for some quiet time, I’m interrupted. My job is very demanding and takes up a lot of my time. There’s also so many distractions in this day and age that I find myself trying to sneak away to a quiet place and getting distracted by something or someone in the process!
May I share a thought that really helped me. I too work in a very demanding atmosphere and have different assignments that are stressfull and the demand to solve these issues consumes time. My work also limits alone time. A friend spoke words into me afew times, but this hit home when he shared on Martha and Mary, when they welcomed Jesus into their home, and their brother Lazarus was raised from the dead. My friend told me story of these two awesome women of God, and I applied it to my life and it helped. (Ask Lina, she might have taught on this already and has it in her archives.) I am just like Martha, things have to get done, whether it ministry related or not and I love Jesus, and he makes me very good at my job. There was major things happening around the time that Jesus visited his friends, and Jesus knew time for him was short. Mary, spent time with listened,
I stand by what I said earlier. God will add distractions to see how u prioritize things and situations. test ur faith to him. he will put us in our quiet place where and when we need to sign deeper. its not going to effect my prayer time w him. he will help me pray over a patient I work with. and a family that just says they do. thanks Lina powerful realization
A quiet place.
Sounds good for me but very hard to find that place.
When I’m home allways something is to be done or the phone rings or the kid wants something or…. If I say I will go in the basement, I get overwhelmed of layndry to be fold and toys to be put away or paperwork and so on.
In the morning before the kid is up and a new day starts is a good time but not enough.
I found the best place for me as a quite place for a quiet time lately is Tuesday evening and I called it the me time. Nobody calls and I get to sit down and listen to God thru His messenger, and mornings on my way to work, is quiet I can talk to Him.
Jesus, and embraced his presence. Jesus told Martha this was important at this moment, and the business could wait a moment or two. I find that there is always moments in my day whether its in a car, locked room, or where ever I can find. I ask the Holy Spirit to cover me with his anointing, help me hear the father, give strength to me. All I had was moments but with those moments of embracing the quiet place of God, it slowly increased and it became easier to find the time. Start with moments and be amazed by Jesus.