Daily Huddle - Thu Oct 31, 2019 Long Days

Love you all, praying for you.
 
What do you do in those times of extreme work demands.  Maybe a software release, or a major upgrade, or a project with significant time constraints – and everyone is working overtime, double shifts, or what coaches wives call – the entire season!  When your normal schedule is usurped by demands of work, desires of excellence, or just obligations of the job?  When PRISM times in the morning are scarce, and in the evening by the time you get dinner – you’re exhausted.  I know PRISM is not a religion – it’s just relationship with your Heavenly Father – hearing His Word to you come alive in the Spirit.  But what if I’m up against the wall at work and my spouse is needing to feel like they are important, not secondary - and my kids are needing attention.  What do I do then?  When things get busy – the first thing to go is your Daily Call – postponements become permanent – don’t let them.  Maybe change to an evening slot – or even a 5 minute Daily Call – only what you wrote down – or one action, or one revelation from the LORD.  The devil want’s to isolate you from overcoming testimony, so he’ll use busyness if he has to.  He wants you to neglect the Word – so you are powerless, and he wants you to skip PiVAT before dinner – so you are directionless – chasing your tail, rather than following His lead.  So what do you do in those seasons – when it seems you have no choice but to get through them?  #1  PRISM is not a religion – it’s an opportunity and a privilege – It’s not a rule and regulation – it’s just an invitation.  Maybe you can’t spend the hour or hours you used to in the Word – in a prior season of life - where you actually S.O.A.P.ed out a Praise the Word verse, a Read the Word Verse, An Insight from the Word verse, and even a Meditate on the Word verse that drew you – from your PRISM Topic today.  Sometimes – the season does not allow for it.  Maybe His Word can’t be your lingering and leisure, but is it your first choice?  When you come home exhausted, do you choose Him first?  Do you check with Him in PiVAT before dinner – even if you don’t eat dinner until 9:00 at night?  Sometimes it’s not the time spent but the priority given – that honors Him in these seasons.   Second – you always have drive time, commute time, or travel time.  Listen to a Daily Huddle from a month ago - if it blessed you then, it will bless you again - His Word never fails to yield fruit.  Listen to a PRISM Topic – His Word, or PRISM Topic – Speak Life.  Keep your mind reviewing His Word – not only will it give you peace in the storm, it will give you wisdom for effectiveness, and strength for the journey.  God can do in five minutes what you couldn’t do in 50 years.  And you can be constant in prayer – constant in thanksgiving, constant in praise.  Just have an ongoing conversation with God – whether you’re on the road, on the plane, waiting in line, every change of activity – just talk to the One who is always with you.  He knows the season you are in – and the closer you move to Him – the more you will see Him move – He’ll move you!  And He always moves you forward. 
 
Love you all,
dad