From homeschooloasis.com
Lovingly, simply, and prayerfully woven together and presented, this book will usher you into deeper intimacy with the Lord and greater victory in your spiritual walk with Him. So much awaits us if we will but walk with Him! If you can lay down the fear of never being the same after reading it, this book will be more than a cherished treasure to you—it will be joyously and permanently life-changing! It is for those longing only for Jesus.
Points of impact:
Once you are secure in the Lord, the best of what life has to offer holds little, if any, allure.
Many have a desire to live for God and minister in His name, but most of us are not willing to pay the price necessary to acquire the wisdom and knowledge for the high purpose and calling of God.
The biblical pattern has been set of spending time alone with God, learning His will for you, before fulfilling His will. We must have a clear vision and be adequately prepared before acting on it.
God has a glorious plan to learn to embrace a secret place, along with all its fears and temptations; allowing Him to become the primary source of our identity.
If we continue in the same pattern through life doing many good things under the guise of ministry, then we never come face to face with who we really are.
Without a season of solitude, we remain victims of a shallow Christianity that continues to govern our lives. Be alone with Him. We need to be well established in His love first.
A season of staying home, or simply staying at home with a purpose, begins a lifestyle of self-discipline. A season of solitude for the purpose of discipleship is divinely designed by God himself to draw us unti His presence where He is able to re-make us into His image for His glory, and then to send us out with strength of character, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to minister life to others.
True ministry is born out of the fullness of compassion that comes only from the Father. It is in solitude that we become compassionate people, deeply aware of our own sinful nature and brokenness. It is common to underestimate how difficult it is to be compassionate.
Compassion requires us to go to the place where another one is weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. Our natural response is to run from it or find a quick cure.
I solitude, we learn that nothing which is common to human nature is alien to us. The roots of all forms of sin are embedded deep within our own hearts. Once this is realized, we must lay aside all judgment of others. This is when God's grace works in and through us.
To a lesser extent-control the extra activity outside the home and learn to turn to Jesus in our loneliness, despair, and frustration, instead of picking up the phone or finding some form of diversion.
For every destiny, there is a discipline that must be learned.