You all know I have 5 kids, right?
My oldest is 21 and my youngest (sweet Vicky) is 14…. and the one thing they have all struggled with is balancing their life with their relationship with God.
Yesterday, my dear friend Coleen Hayden shared with you a glimpse into what it looks like to seek the Lord as she will be blogging about this for you the next 4 weeks. I hope you had a chance to read it! If not, you can see her post here.
I will be doing a very similar thing over the next 4 weeks, but I will be discussing with you what it really and truly looks like to be able to balance having a wonderfully intimate relationship with God and also still have time for all of your important activities.
Being a teen, you are BUSY… I know! If you’re like my teens, you might have a few things on your plate like…..
- church
- family (maybe even in 2 houses…)
- school
- a job
- sports
- work
- serving
- hobbies
- friends
- boyfriend
- ____________________
SO……. How DO you balance your relationship with God and other things in your life????
Well, you MUST be spending time with the Lord every single day! I am talking real, quality, in-the-Word time with God. Hopefully, you have a parent or other family member at home who has modeled this for you. If not, it’s okay….. Coleen will be going over this with you on her blog for the next 4 Saturdays. You can also be talking about this in our secret Facebook GCH:decaf fellowship group!!!
What else do you need to get and maintain this balance? Here are a few things we will be discussing over the next 4 weeks….
- Take God with you throughout your day
- Give your schedule to God
- Accountability
- Values vs. priorities
I do hope that you will take this journey with me over the next 4 weeks! I would love for you to be able to not only protect your time with God but also be able to feel confident about all of the other aspects of your life that are important to you. If you can learn this now, you will be amazed at how much easier life will be as more and more responsibilities get put on you as you continue to get older. This will be instrumental in helping you to not just be a FAN of Jesus…. but be one AMAZING FOLLOWER!!!!
Let’s Pray…
Dear Lord, thank You for giving each of us such big hearts for You. Help us as we begin to intentionally make time to deepen our relationship with You every day. Give us all that time back in our day for Your glory, Lord. Help us balance all of the demands of our time and begin helping us to discern what activities or demands on our time might not be what You have for us in this season. We love You and thank You for this, God! Amen.
Blessings to you all,
Megan 🙂
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echoing your prayer, megan! with His help, we can do all of this…and be SO pleasing to the One Whom we yearn to follow! <3
amen <3
Learning to be intentional about the balance between time with God and life. Some days are more of a struggle than others, but when we realize how important that time with God is, we won't let anything get in it's way.
Ah!! Balance is so so very important. I always think of it this way: the balance should be uneven. The God scale should be way more than the everything else scale. I know I suffer sometimes but this study truly helps you spend more time on your God scale and balance out all of the other stuff:) thanks for sharing with us Megan!!!!