Quiet Time…

Quiet Time…12-20-25

i love to get up early, go sit on my porch in the summer, or couch in the winter, and be present. It is my time to think, pray, talk to God, and contemplate. Before the business of the day begins, I have these few moments without extraneous factors to just be.

In Mark 1:35, Jesus prayed in the quiet. “And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.” Jesus provided our example of spending quiet time with the Lord. He could and did communicate continuously. However, in scriptures we have many examples of Jesus spending time in prayer. Even the disciples asked Jesus to “teach us to pray”, Luke 11:1.

Psalm 131:2, “But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” Prayer is our simple, quiet, sweet time of prayer.

1 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! that calls me from a world of care, and bids me at my Father's throne make all my wants and wishes known. In seasons of distress and grief, my soul has often found relief, and oft escaped the tempter's snare by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!

2 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! the joys I feel, the bliss I share of those whose anxious spirits burn with strong desires for thy return! With such I hasten to the place where God my Savior shows his face, and gladly take my station there, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!

3 Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer! thy wings shall my petition bear to him whose truth and faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless. And since he bids me seek his face, believe his word, and trust his grace, I'll cast on him my every care, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!

William W. Alford, 1845