Quality Time: By God & For God

Hey!
I am back with the next edition of our series: By God & For God! I hope you liked the first one!

As you may know, in this series, I am talking to you about love languages.

If you’re joining us this week for the first time, have you heard of them before? If not, here’s a short explanation.

American pastor, Gary Chapman, wrote about this subject and explains that there are 5 love languages. And, this is what I want us all to discover during this summer. I start every article with a quick debrief of what it is (really, it’s not going to be long), and then, I talk to you about how we can use said love language in our relationship with God. I believe that He allowed us to have these languages for a reason, and I believe that this is is to live them all with the Father. All of this is to make Him happy! In that same way, it shows us His love for us through these languages.

Today, let’s talk about quality time. 

What is it? 

Some people feel loved when people spend time with them, doing things that are dear to their heart. It’s not that they lack love in their home, only that they love to spend time with the people they love, who allow them to express their love. 

How to live that with God?

I believe that that is a good question. But it isn’t complicated. Quality time is built upon conversations, activities together, laughs or simple, quiet moments.

The most obvious way to spend time with the Father is to talk to Him! Prayer is the most effective way to do it. In this way, you can help grow your relationship by talking. Talk about anything that may come to mind: your worries, what preoccupies your mind, your successes and your failures. I am clearly saying “your” because you can talk to God, but He desires to to talk to you

The most obvious way to spend time with God is to talk to Him! Prayer is an effective way to do this. In this way, you can make your relationship grow by talking, by telling yourself what is on your mind: your worries, your concerns, your joys and your sorrows. I say "your" because you can talk to God, but He also wants to talk to you. He wants to tell you what is on His mind as well.

In the Old Testament, we see Him speaking with Moses, Samuel, an insane amount of prophets (Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Agée, Zacharie, Malachi and so many others!). And if you read carefully, you will see that God also listens to those who speak to Him.

Are you not a prophet? No problem, the Bible is full of people with whom God speaks. David had prophetic tendencies, but he was above all a king, and God spoke to him! As Eli mentioned two articles ago, God spoke with Solomon as well.

In the New Testament you have an insane amount of people speaking to God through Prayer. They are all learning a lot about this as well, because they asked Jesus how to pray. But above all, a lot of people came to Jesus to tell Him about what was happening to them. You can do the same.

Likewise, you can spend quality time with God by listening to Him, writing things that come to your heart while thinking of Him, spending time with people who encourage you in your spiritual life, Praising Him and worshiping Him, living in a way that makes Him a priority, thinking of Him, and so many others. I'll let you share in the comments if you have an idea.

How does God show it to me?

And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” (Mark 1:11)

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

I hope that this has shown you a new perspective on how to show your love to God and how to see God’s love for you.

Be blessed abundantly, 

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