some quiet time

yesterday i had to cover another site and it was a blessing!! it's a quiet site so i had plenty of time to just chill. most of the "chillin'" i did was quiet time with the Lord. i usually have music playin throughout the day at work and i don't think i played any yesterday. i spent time reading or watching stuff about the Lord.
i found this on cyberanger's blog. i watched most of it and i also read the book of Ephesians. i was surprised when i finished the book cuz i was finished before i knew it. i know it's a small book but i didn't rush through the reading and i read alot of the study notes in my bible that went along with each chapter. i'm lovin my new bible btw. i plan to read Ephesians again and maybe find a good bible study for Ephesians. i also had some prayer time and i feel refreshed today (even with just 5 hours of sleep). its good to read God's Word, it's good to study and to try to get to know Him better. i also have some memory verses that i've been working on for a long time that i reviewed and i think i'm ready to add another one or two. i think this will be my newest verse to memorize:

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. - II Peter 1:5-8

for some reason that verse stood out to me about a week or two ago when i was doing some reading. i'll memorize those verses first, then the ones that proceed it that say: His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. it may seem backwards to do it that way but that's the way i'm goin for now. some other verses i'd like to add are: Gal 5:16-17, 24-25, II Tim 2:15, (i actually started that one awhile back, but somehow it got lost in the shuffle).

Here's a list of what i've memorized so far:
Proverbs 1:7
Psalms 51:10
2 Corinthians 5:17
Galatians 2:20
Romans 12:1,2
Colossians 3:1-3
Galatians 5:22-23
Joshua 1:8
Proverbs 15:1
1 Corinthians 6:12
Proverbs 25:28

i chose these verses becuz i felt like they would be the kind of verses i needed to keep in mind to be serious about my walk. i say i chose them, but i do feel like it was more like i was lead to choose them.

i have a notebook/journal i use sometimes and i created flash cards in Ms Word, then printed them, cut them out and pasted them into the journal. this way when i'm on the train i can go over them and easily find them if i'm having trouble with a verse. here's an example of what the flash cards look like:


i got the idea of the format of the card from the Topical Memory System. of course i can't find where i got the idea for the formatting of the card, but there is online version here that i just found hehe.

this walk is a process, but when i have days like yesterday, then talk to my wife or (anyone who wants to listen hehe) about what i've learned or what stood out to me, its nice to feel like you've grown a little closer to the Lord.

wouldn't you know that by the time i got home yesterday i was starting to get into a bad mood, and i know where that came from. something really small set me off and i started to get angrier and angrier in my spirit, but i realized why or should i say who was really behind it and i apologized and moved on. it was good to do that, cuz i didn't let that take away from the time i spent with the Lord earlier that day.