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No one will object to yesterday’s blog on “A Day’s Portion Every Day<\/a>,” EXCEPT for the encouragement to do it early<\/em>. I hear your cry. Not everyone is at their best in the morning, and, for sure, if another time of day is better for you, go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I am reminded of a sermon I heard from J. Oswald Sanders<\/a> (not to be confused with Oswald Chambers). Dr. Sanders was the long-time head of China Inland Mission<\/a>. I heard him preach when he was in his late 80s and still bringing it with gusto. He told a story that went something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone asked me once, “Dr. Sanders, will you pray that God will help me get out of bed in the morning to have my quiet time?” I replied, “I will NOT! I will pray that if you can get one foot out of bed, God will help you get the other.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His point was, the daily meeting with God is a discipline, no matter what time you do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Train yourself for godliness. (1 Timothy 4.7, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No one will object to yesterday’s blog on “A Day’s Portion Every Day,” EXCEPT for the encouragement to do it early. I hear your cry. Not everyone is at their best in the morning, and, for sure, if another time of day is better for you, go for it. However, I am reminded of a … Continue reading Early?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-early","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}