²⁴ A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24

Monday will conclude my 7 days of connecting with God every 60 minutes. Here is what I have learned:

1) When you take the time to look, it isn’t difficult to find things to talk with God about all day long. I thought it would be difficult. As time progressed, I opened myself up to be led by the Spirit, and I usually had a different subject each time. If I didn’t, He didn’t mind hearing it again.

2) There are many ways to connect with God other than praying. Praying and listening in prayer is a wonderful way to do so, but worshiping in music or reading a devotional are a couple of other ways.

3) In just under 7 days, I found a miniature story that showed me where I fail in connecting with God in normal times of my life. For example, when distraction comes into my life, then I often overlook the need to connect with God on a regular basis. It isn’t that I have to actually do it every hour, but there isn’t any reason we can’t do it several times a day. There were a couple of days this week when I let the stresses of work and life keep me from remembering my commitment on the hour.

4) When you open up a dialogue like that on a regular basis with God, He will oblige by speaking to you as often if you are listening. Doing so doesn’t always solve your problems right away, but it does give you a great peace in knowing that the Lord holds them all in His capable hands.

5) Finally, as with the verse above, the Lord never tired of me talking to Him. I could not find another person in this world who I could call every hour of every day that wouldn’t tire of talking to me. They would tire of hearing my problems. They would even tire of hearing my praises. They would want some space from me. God never tires of us, will always be there to hear our problems or praises, and loves every minute that we spend with him, whether it be 10 minutes or 10 hours.

Going forward, I doubt that I will realistically stick to my every hour commitment….at least not on the dot. I have learned that there are many moments in every day where I can pull God in and I haven’t been. Going into this experiment, I found out that I didn’t know how to set my cell phone to alarm every hour without setting separate alarms for each time. I made a mental note to try and watch the clock and catch the hours. I quickly learned that I check my text messages and email just about every hour of every single day. If I can remember to check in with the world via text and email that often, then I should be able to remember to check in with God at the same time. So, my new commitment is, that if I am checking my tweets, facebook, or email, that I will also make sure, at some point in that moment, to put that down and just connect with God, if only for a moment.

For those of you who also tried this experiment on some level this week, I would love to hear how your week went by using the comment section on this page. May you continue to draw nearer to Him as He draws nearer to you.

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