by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]
“Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is
a refuge for us” (Psalm 62:8).
You must consider your daily appointments with God more sacred and important
than appointments with any other people — no matter who they are.
How embarrassing it must be for heaven to see the way we Christians fail to
highly regard the majesty of our God, the King of Glory. We are often flippant
in the way we keep Him waiting. And at the drop of a hat, we will suddenly
cancel plans to meet with Him in His courts, all for the most trifling thing!
Can you imagine someone keeping the Creator of the universe waiting while he
lingers to view his favorite TV program? Yet that is what many of us do! Even
worse, we often do not bother to show up in God's presence at all. It is not
that we forget our appointment with Him but we willfully refuse to appear
before Him!
Isaiah lamented, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3). When I allow interruptions to
come between me and my appointments with the Lord, I am hiding my face from Him
and not appreciating Him as I should.
The truth is, it is impossible to waste time when you are seeking God in
prayer. Furthermore, outside the secret closet, the praying man or woman
accomplishes more in less time, with less hurry and less effort and sweat.
The most effective work for God we will ever do is on our knees. While the
prayerless run helter skelter, to and fro, attempting great things, the praying
Christian is hard at work moving kingdoms, shattering strongholds, doing great
things and, in the process, becoming a giant with God.
