The First 15 Minutes of Your Day Reveal Your Real Lord

What you reach for first every morning reveals what is leading your heart. In this short episode, we’re talking about why right order isn’t a religious routine- it’s the foundation for daily surrender. If you’ve been feeling reactive, overwhelmed, or spiritually dry, this simple shift could change everything.

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Welcome back to the High Level Wife Podcast. I'm Chelsea Home, your hostess, Tim We Do Marriage, Godsway here. And this is going to be a super, super short episode. So if you only have a few minutes, this is a perfect one. It's the first 15 minutes of your day reveal your real Lord. And we live in a world where our phone has become everything for us, right? It's our alarm clock, it's our calendar, it's our um uh what's the word? It's it's our secretary, right? It's our office manager, it's it's our accountant, and it's all the things that has everything, right? It's our photographer, it's our navigation. But here's the thing, okay. The first thing is everyone worships the first thing. Okay, so the question isn't if you worship, it's what gets your first attention. Is it your phone, your kids, your email, your coffee, your news, or God? What gets your attention gets your affection? And this is gonna be challenging for most of us because as I started this with, like our phone is everything for us. So is it the first thing that you're reaching for in the morning? And maybe it's time to get the old school alarm clock out again and to leave the phone downstairs if you're not already doing that. Um, and to have that set space where you go and get time with the Lord right away. The second thing here right order isn't about checking a box. Reading your Bible every day isn't a religious duty. Now, I know my dad raised me and he always said, read your Bible and pray every single day, right? And um, for many years that became it, it was it was a box to check because it was what I was taught. But what it actually is, is it's placing yourself under God's authority before the world tells you who to be and what to fear. You don't accidentally walk and surrender all day, you begin and surrender. But again, the question is what are you surrendering to? And the last thing here is that pressure reveals your life or your private life. Pressure reveals your private life. So I want you to listen to what I'm about to say and write this down somewhere where you're gonna see it because I think that this is so powerful. Surrender and the pressure is the overflow of surrender in the private. I'll say it again. Surrender and the pressure is the overflow of surrender in the private. So when your husband says something hurtful, or when your kids are melting down, or when life gets chaotic, like it did for us this morning. We walked outside of our Airbnb and our van window was busted open. And so the whole day had to, not the whole day, but the whole morning had to drastically shift. And so you need to understand that you're not creating surrender in those moments, you're revealing what you've been practicing. So it's like when the pressure is applied, when you're squeezed, when life squeezes you, what's coming out is what's already inside, right? And so you're not going to surrender in those moments if you haven't already surrendered in the private. So tomorrow morning, before you reach for anything else, reach for the word. Five minutes in his presence is better than 50 minutes trying to recover from starting your day in the flesh. Right order changes everything. I will see you on the next episode.