Age: 16 years old

Lord, you are awesome! Just last night I was so confused about what you wanted me to do. I didn’t know if you were disciplining, pruning, or asking me to abide in you. So I asked you. I prayed the simple prayer saying please clear my head of all former thoughts and just tell me what you want me to do for me. I sat, quiet, no thoughts going through my head. Then I heard sleep. I didn’t understand. I wanted to sleep so I thought that you wanted me to give up that sleeps at night. Either that or I just wanted to sleep in. So, I know you don’t want me to sleep, but I fell asleep anyway. So today I was reading more from Secrets of the Vine and redacted explained how to abide. One thing stuck out though. They said, to abide you must wake up early and they don’t know any great spiritual leaders who did devos before bed. Now it all makes sense. You want me to lose sleep by waking up earlier to spend time with you. It’s the only way I can abide in you and serve you and remember you throughout the day, not just the end of the day. So, what do you want me to do for devos? Should I do them at night and in the morning? What can I do in the morning if I do them at night?, I think I know. At night: confess sins, read Bible, pray on prayer requests, same as now. In morning – read a page out of the devos book, read 2 pages and Bible, pray to God to change my life, pray specifically and only about me, not others, and right that God has done in my life. Start night devos at 7 p.m. now and morning devos get up at 5:40 a.m. do devos until 6:40 a.m. then get ready for school. That way I can abide in God and make him my best friend.

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