Psalm 119: (New International Version) 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. 10 I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
God is doing a new work in me and my family. My personal devotional time is growing beyond one hour every morning and aspiring to 2 hours of first fruit time. Maybe you are better at the following than me but I am thankful for what God is teaching me in my personal quiet time to impact my first team.
In addition to my personal time, I have been intentional to read and study the Bible with my 8 and 5 year old sons this week for 10-15 minutes (less than 1 % of my day) before they go to school. We have studied one verse each of the last three days. I humbly admit I have missed the mark as a dad in faithfully leading my boys in devotions but we are making progress one morning at a time.
Sometimes we complicate what we need to do to lead well and we under estimate the return from our followers in this case being my kids. Yesterday when I got home I received a hero’s welcome from my three oldest sons, serious I mean a soldier’s welcome. Interesting that we had been studying the “good soldier”. My wife and I attributed it to intentional time and time in God’s Word together.
For someone who is wired like a Coach and has a tendency to burn the candle pretty low, God blessed me with seeing what ten daily minutes have done for my first team. What would God do if we gave 10 daily minutes of reading and/or prayer to our spouses or our team?
"I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord, I'm a soldier in the army!"
Make it a great day!
Coach C
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