How much time do you spend in fellowship with God every day?

Of course…. This is a chat forum.. so we are chatting

I talk to God all day long as if in a conversation.

I talk to God all day long as if in a conversation.

As much as possible.

How do you talk to God if you’re sleeping? How do you talk to God if you’re at work during work hours?

so how much time are you putting in?

How do you talk to God if you’re sleeping? How do you talk to God if you’re at work during work hours?

How do you talk to God if you’re sleeping? How do you talk to God if you’re at work during work hours?

Let’s say reading the Bible counts and praying. Let’s for this discussion exclude, listening to Christian or praise music.

I talk to silently to God when at work. Of course, when sleeping the mute button is pressed. When at home by myself, I sometimes talk quietly out loud in these conversations.

God has taught me to fellowship with him all the time every day in constant prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). Then, he pops into my brain thoughts for his direction for my life, especially in my case ideas for books he wants me to write.

Im not really sure what you mean by “ how much time “ we put in it’s a lifetime commitment brother to live a new life for God and not for ourselves anymore. So what we want to do is listen to him and what he’s saying in the gospel.

im old , there was times in my life brother that I put very little of anything into my side of the relationship and God still loved me because I believed in Jesus. I didn’t know them but now I realize I’m those times , he was putting his time into me beating up my ignorance and stupidity , forebearing with my poor choices and my alcoholism that fueled it all.

Somehow through no good doing of my own infact through a lot of bad doings on my part God never stopped caring and helping and blessing and protecting and calling to and reminding me of ect he never stopped when I lacked my part is what I mean

now I’ve gone and turned white headed and gotten old somehow , really could not tell you how it happened honestly but I’m definately an old goat now and things are different because I finally listened to the words I’ve always heard or read or prayed about

It’s just been a lifetime commitment first God committed to me and then won me over and somewhere along the way in the middle I suppose late Middle I reckon. I really commited to trust all the stuff he had taught me over the years in good times and bad .

What I was getting at is it’s a full time relationship between god and the believer. And isnt really just about reading a Bible , praying , or attending church but it’s really about our daily life and how we treat other people as Christian’s in the world representing Christ.

Its not really about allotting certain time for prayer or study or church which are all great uses of some of our time and essential but also is about how we act towards others

Do we help or harm ? Do we walk on by as if we don’t see as the levite religious preist in the story ? Or will we be as the Good Samaritan who loves his neighbor as himself ?

it’s really about k owing Gods there with us when we’re in the open and in the dark and so it’s wise to learn his will and ways but then as we begin to trust and apply them to life it becomes a tangible relationship that goes both ways ….like a loving father and his children responding to his teaching then as they grow up into decent productive peaceful helpful humans

who also happen to share the good news of Jesus with others when they find a chance to drop a seed or two

jesus teaches us in the gospel to try to live one day at a time and seek his kingdom and righteousness because each day has its own struggles and challenges we’ll face. But we want to start and end our days acknowledging God brother because he’s with us when we believe the gospel and call upon his name

We may not even realize like I didn’t until I got white headed but he’s there with us even before we’ve become better people or made drastic changes but just because we truly believe the gospel and desire to do better to get away from the things we feel and know are wrong

id say I’ve put about seventy years give or take hearing about Jesus and then later seeking more about him in his word and I believe Gods out far more time in than I have working on the old cracked lump of clay

it’s being born into his family brother as if your a new child and begin to learn from your father about your new life maybe try reading fifteen minutes in the am with some prayer and coffee if you drink it , it’s a good way to get some thoughts to ponder through the day and fill our mind with better things more often better reflections and thoughts matter alot

But the fifteen min of reading is because we’re learning about our father and new life and role in his family so it’s like a reaping and seeing nature we are going to be more aware of our relationship with God , the more we put into it on a regular basis even if it’s fofteen or twenty min reading it’s about applying those things to ourselves learnkng gods ways and blessing others in his name

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“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” 1 Corinthians‬ ‭6:19-20‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Part of the problem is that there are those who attempt to keep God in their consciousness at all times. Even as they work, or simply engage in a conversation, they do so in light of God's word and are seeking to hear His voice in the midst of it.

For such ones, all of life is viewed as prayer; a constant conversation and consideration of God. It is living from the inside out.

Within this there will certainly be times dedicated to closeted prayer and Bible study, which is what you are interested in. But this is not as easy a separation for some as others.

Again, back to my neurosurgeon analogy… if he’s in an eight hour surgery, he’s not having a conversation with God at that moment and I don’t think God expects him to. Difference from theoretical and versus practical..

You see it this way because you haven't experienced what I am referring to. For you it is apples and oranges; for some it is fruit salad.