Is your life crazy busy? Do you have a husband, kids, grandkids a house, a job, another job or just commitments? We live busy lives, spent rushing from one thing to the next with little time for spiritual disciplines like prayer, fasting, Bible study or simply listening to God.
In his letter to Timothy in 1Timothy 2:1-4, Paul offers some ideas on how to have “quiet” in our daily lives, and he provides the rationale for doing so. “I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
How do I have “quiet”?
- Supplications (humble prayer, entreaty, or petition)
- Prayers (a spiritual communion with God)
- Intercessions (a prayer to God on behalf of another)
- Giving thanks for all men, for kings and all who are in authority
- It is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior
