Love Languages, Quality Time

“Come close to God, and God will come close to you”.

 James 4:8

Lord, God, Father in heaven we are so grateful for everything that you give unto us.  We are beyond blessed with the knowledge and wisdom that you have shared with us. You give us a way to speak so many different languages and to help fill so many other people’s tanks.  God, we know that we fill their tank in turn our tank will be filled as well.  God, you are amazing and we appreciate you.  We know that you don’t have to give us so much, but yet you choose to give us more than we deserve.  God today we pray that you would help to remind us daily that we need to spend more quality time with you.  Help us to see how we can change our actions to speak the language of quality time to spend more time with you to fill your tank.  God maybe that’s writing a story for you, or a devotional, or reading more scripture, or spending more time in prayer, or choosing to see you alive in every aspect of our lives.  God, thank you.  Lord, today we pray that you give us the courage to take action! Give us the strength to fight Satan when he tries to pull us back into sin and away from spending quality time with you.  God give us the courage to tell Satan NO when he dangles “shiny objects” in front of us during our quality time with you. God, we ask all these things in your precious son’s name.

Amen

A Little More

There are a few things that I found that I absolutely LOVE. God, enjoying God’s creation (yes this includes people), my family, flying, the ocean, the mountains, warm weather, and helping others.

From a young age, I knew that I liked helping others.  

When I was 14 I started as a JR firefighter for our local volunteer fire department.

Before that, I was involved with several organizations where I could help others.  Like the Grange, 4-H, and a few others. 

I was raised in a strong Christian house and that definitely helped lay a strong foundation for my faith.

But it wasn’t really until I was about 25 that I truly came to God and accepted that he is the reason for everything.

As soon as I accepted that fact my whole life turned around, almost instantly.

And that’s why I spend so much time helping others to come closer to God in everything I do.  Sometimes subtly and sometimes not so subtle. 

Like around Christmas I tell everyone, Merry Christmas. Even if it makes them a little uncomfortable. Even if they don’t say it back, I don’t let it bother me because I know that maybe, just maybe my faith will cause them to have more faith and belief in Jesus.

Now we run a growing business and non-profit that are devoted to helping others. 

Our business, Eclipse DOT and DOT Docs help those who use trucks in their business to be compliant with federal regulations.

We don’t claim to know everything about compliance, but we do promise to do our best to help them be 100% in compliance. 

With God First, we are hopefully helping others to live their life with a God First attitude all the time. (Something that I struggle with constantly)

Recently we (Billy, our oldest son, and I) have been taking flying lessons to get our pilot’s license.  At first, it was pretty scary to get behind the sticks of a plane, then after a few times, I found it quite relaxing and exciting.

It’s exciting because we are looking at buying a plane so our whole family can travel. On a recent trip to San Diego, all I could think about was how this 12-hour drive could have been done in a little over 2 hours of flight time!  Our options for travel which we also love will open up HUGELY!

Here’s the thing.

If I would have never truly accepted that God has a plan for us and that we need to trust him and jump when he tells us to jump none of this would have been possible.

We took some CRAZY chances in the past and are still regularly taking crazy chances and fully trusting that God has it under control.

It’s because we spend quality time with him that we know what we are doing is what he needs us to do. 

That quality time is essential to being able to connect with God.

It also makes a huge difference when you can connect to yourself better so that you can see what you need to truly be successful.

I didn’t figure out most of the answers for myself until after I was 25 then I kept figuring them out and I’m sure that I will continue to figure out what I need to do to be happy and healthy. 

One of the hardest things we have had to do as we grew was let go of the toxic people that were holding us back. The negative people who all they did was watch the news and tell us about how evil the world is.

Guess what, the world has always had evil in it!

It just wasn’t displayed in every hand and on every TV and heard on the radio.

So here’s what I want you to do today.

Try going on a new sabbatical.  Make a pact with yourself not to watch the news for the next week, then the next month, then the next year, then the next 5 years.

That might cause you some stress NOT to watch the news and KNOW what is going on around the world. But I promise you, you will not miss out on anything that is vital to your survival if you don’t watch the news.

Well, that story took a turn that I wasn’t expecting. But like I always say, God has a plan, we might not like the plan, we might not know the plan, but he has one, and it’s WAY better than ours is.

Have a GREAT day and may God bless everything you engage in!

Dan Greer

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