The view as I stepped out the door of my 4th floor room, big motel!

These pictures were made recently in a motel where I was staying, preaching in a nearby Revival. The Motel Chain was kind to me, upgrading me to a larger room than normal. So, for several days and nights, I lived in that place, studying the Word of God!

Today’s Bible Lesson …

A preacher in a room, pursuing his ministry!

Clearly a reminder of 2nd Kings 4:10 where a woman asked her husband: “Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.”

Oh, I wish I could tell you how very sweet some of those times are … the Lord and me … in a simply furnished room … delighting over the Word, the Bible, the Holy Scriptures!

Yes, a bed … for sleep.

A table … one must eat.

A stool, on which to type Lessons for the Website!

And a candlestick, lots of light (for reading) if possible!

And this all was provided for me, not by a Shunammite family, but by a loving local Church, the one in which I was preaching that week, during what the Pastor called a “Christmas Revival!”

My point today?

Do YOU have a place you can occasionally (or better yet, regularly) go and meet the Lord? Study His Word? Pray and commune with the Creator of the universe?

Nearly everywhere Abraham went … he immediately built an altar … to worship God. A PLACE to meet the Almighty!

Get you such a place!

A prayer “closet,” so to speak.

A Bible Study “corner,” conducive to devouring the Word of God!

And you, as you spend time in your dedicated place, will feel as the hymn writer of old did …

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

Praise the Lord!

Try it, someone. Just for a week … it’s habit forming!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

 

Maybe someone reading today already does this. Or plans to start soon. Or simply enjoyed the Lesson … let me know, 770-744-7627, my text number. Your responses are always so encouraging!

Here was the view, looking up toward my “place,” from the lobby.