4/9/2023 0 Comments Military wake up timeWhen I grabbed my phone before my Bible, the Word didn’t sink in as deeply, and I’d feel guilty that I chose to read an Instagram meme before the Word of God. However, I noticed that on the days when I overslept and missed my divine appointment, my mind was scattered and I felt anything but peaceful. I couldn’t wait to hear how God would speak to me through His Word. I went to bed excited to wake up early the next morning. from then on.Īs this became my routine, I began to look forward to my early morning wake up call, my sacred appointment with God, my Bible, and a cup of Earl Grey. After my specific prayers of asking to sleep until 7 a.m., God, who is merciful, let me sleep for another hour. I thanked Him for the answered prayer however, I did ask if I could renegotiate the time. Then came the revelation! God was giving me what I asked for I was just too bleary eyed to notice. Like a stubborn child, I fought the early wake up call for a few more days. Really, why? Was it some Biblical End Times numerological code? Because me getting up at 5:57 a.m. When this 5:57 wake-up call happened 4 days in a row, I knew God was serious. Ugh! A lesson in prayer: Be careful what you pray for and be really specific in your petitions. The next morning, my eyes popped open at 5:57. I thought it was a joke, so naturally, I turned over and went back to sleep. Well, God acted fast! A few days after that, I woke up at 5:57 a.m. I prayed for more margin in my life, for God to show me how to set my priorities. I was uneasy in my soul, and God felt far away. I began to notice that my spiritual life wasn’t growing. However, as my kids got older and my days filled, somehow I kept missing my 2 pm appointment with the King of Kings. My personal opinion is that if He has something to tell me, the God of the Universe can surely do it around 2 pm. There is plenty of time to do those things, why wake up at the crack of dawn? Personally, I don’t want to hear from anyone before my first cup of Earl Grey tea, not even God. I never understood “those people” who woke up before the sun was up to work out, to read the Bible, or to pray. I’d go brush my teeth or start putting on my uniform of the day.If you see me awake before the sunrises and I’m not sucking down some caffeine, don’t walk, just run! I have never been a morning person. By the end of BMT I didn’t even need a watch to wake me up. I doubt you’d get in that much trouble if you just said you wanted to be more prepared than others. Technically you’re not supposed to wake up early and start doing things but in my experience most MTIs were okay with it because they saw it as people who were motivated and wanted to get up just a bit earlier than others to be successful and get a slight head start on the day. Most people are dead tired so they won’t wake up unless they’re a very light sleeper but if they are there’s a million other things that are gonna wake them up. The cheap Casio watches are pretty good at being loud enough for you but not loud enough for your neighbors to wake up. Make sure that alarm IS NOT extremely loud. Once they know you know what exactly to do I’d set an alarm 5-10 minutes early on your watch. The MTI’s will be near to instruct you on what to do. So the first few days maybe even a week if you wake up before reveille goes off just lay in bed.
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