Remember The Morning Watch

"Remember the morning watch" was a slogan started in 1882 at Cambridge University when students discovered a flaw in their spiritual armor. These students came up with the “morning watch”, spending the first minutes of the day with God in prayer and reading the Bible. This idea spread throughout the Cambridge campus, creating a period of religious blessings. Culminating in the departure of the Cambridge Seven for missionary service, giving up everything to go out to places like China. These students wanted to get up to meet their God! They tried an array of many different things to get up early in the morning. They had the yearning heart of wanting to meet their Lord. As these students got up to meet their God, we too must have that morning of quiet time, that moment of intimate communion with Christ. A person of God must have that alone time with God at the core of their priorities. These morning minutes should be invested in: 1) prayer, preparing the heart to receive the Word of God; 2) reading the scriptures/listening to messages; and 3) a time of fellowship with God through prayer for thankfulness, repentance, and supplication. As a person of God, waking up early and spending time in quiet devotion to God is pertinent to the nourishment and maintenance of our spirit. This is an intimate time with God and this should be our first priority when we awaken the dawn. I hope that we all can remember the morning watch as the Cambridge students did in 1882, having the yearning heart to meet with our God.---The Cambridge SevenIn February 1885, on a platform in London, seven university men, all of them athletic and scholarly, were called to continue the dreams of Harold Schofield, a prominent English doctor who gave up everything to serve as a missionary doctor in China Inland Missions. The seven young men stood to testify how God had changed their hearts and led them to offer themselves for mission work in China. These seven young men are known as The Cambridge Seven: Stanley Perigrine Smith, C. T. Studd, Montagu Beauchamp, E. E. Hoste, W. W. Casels, and the Podhill-Turner brothers, Arthur and Cecil.After their acceptance into the China Inland Mission, the seven toured England and Scotland, preaching and appealing to their listeners to follow Christ. Many individuals, impressed that for the sake of Christ these young men had given up everything of the world, yielded their own lives for God's use. The young men's example helped to inspire the many movements and fellowships.As these young men have given up everything to take up the Cross and follow Him. They left everything of the world to carry the Gospel to the perishing nation. Through them many were inspired to take up that Cross as well. Through them many people were able to meet Jesus Christ.

Hmmm, saw this one starting to slip off the main page here. I know this has been brought up before in similar fashion, but 4:00 a.m. seemed to be 'the sacred hour' for many of the past saints. Still am amazed at how often it is mentioned in my reading here is an old related thread Power Through PrayerThough this has been going on for years now personally, something the Lord begun right after hunting me down, of late it's been even earlier 3 or 3:30..it's almost a disappointment if I wake up at 2:00 or earlier, figure best to get at least some sleep. Seriously wonder how much of it is truely a gift. There is no struggle, or thought of "I should get up", not a drugery, it's a joy even though often times it can be excruciatingly difficult to wrestle with the myriad of things that need prayer, mostly a large part is spent dealing with the vextations of my own soul, which just goes to show how far I have to go. But to study, read scripture and divest all the build up within... it's that I get to, that is what I can't wait for when first waking up, and just is strange is how little sleep I can get by on. With that said, I can later in the day sit down here and nod off in an instance, but it's not from a drozy, dragging myself around sense, have plenty of energy throughout the day, even when doing physically demanding tasks.Now that I think about, it doesn't make any logical sense and my family thinks I am whacked...so may be on the right track after all.