Another way to get some encouragement in the morning is to name your alarm something encouraging. For example I struggled with trusting Gods sovereignty so when my alarm goes off in the morning it doesn't just say "Alarm" it says "God is Sovereign". Seeing that truth first thing helps me to dive into my quiet time with the right mindset.

6 things that may drive you to your phone early in the morning: Novelty hunger. Ego hunger. Entertainment hunger. Boredom avoidance. Responsibility avoidance. Hardship avoidance

Psalm 90 verse 14 Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.

*I love his answers, he's so simple and humble and brings real-life advice that's actually really applicable*

I lately have been trying very hard every morning no matter what in 2018 to start with 30 mins bible, 30 mins prayer. I know it's very baby steps, but so far I have seen it stimulate growth in my journey with God and it has given me peace that lasts' :)

Amen. I’ve struggled with anxiety for a while and i noticed whenever I’d get on my social media apps first thing in the morning I would see stuff that would feed/trigger my anxiety. God has set me free and first thing I do is wake up and praise him and ask him to provide me with his armour (Ephesians 6). Everyday is a battle, but God is almighty and nothing is impossible for him. God bless everyone reading this. Remember there is power in the name of Jesus Christ!!

I have been trying to turn off my internet in the evening 30-40min before bed and turning it on after I'm done with morning routines. so I use the offline bible to read psalms last thing before going to bed and first thing before I leave my bed to pee or pray I notice I have been thinking WAY LESS crap and having WAY LESS anxiety too may the Lord bless us all!

The Scripture reading as an alarm is a wonderful idea!

Amen Pastor, I have a bad habit to going to my phone. Habits need to change for the glory of God.

I confess when I wake up in the morning, I still want to sleep and I lazy around in bed. Not necessarily using my phone, just sleeping. I pray I can use wisdom to be productive in the morning...🙏🏾

Have to start off with thanking the Father God as soon i wake up for giving me life. Praise God

Has anyone besides me gotten stuck in the "John Piper" youtube rabbit hole, and before you know it your 8 ask the pastors in ?

Here we are 3 years later and God led me straight to a word I needed for TODAY! I've been struggling most of my adult life to force myself up, out of bed and before God in a consistent not hurried way. I've been unable to do it because I can't wake up easily. I've been working from home for a couple of months because of the pandemic and it's gotten worse. I'm so convicted of this sin and am starting to fight back by any means necessary. Grateful God led me to this message. I feel encouraged!!!

I start my morning with "Thank you Jesus" Pray, then I read my daily devotional on my phone, Then I rise up and Talk to God. Letting him know I am grateful for no alarming phone calls in the night. I have my health and strength. I Decree the Favor of God surrounds my loved ones and I like a shield. Then I focus on the new day I have been given.

Sleep with scripture on then you are feeding it to your subconscious and when you are awake in the day reading it your consciousness will grasp what you heard the night before more firmly. Deeper rooting of the word.

That was great I agree and I couldn’t have said it better took the words right out of my mouth praise Christ Jesus

I've never been a morning person... It takes me a while to wake up/get my mental clarity on. I like to play worship music - on my phone, while I have my morning coffee, before getting on with my day ❤️

I have managed to transfer audio bible on my music player, to my alarm , didn't realize I could do it. Thank you Pastor John for the idea.

I LOVE TO TALK WITH OUR FATHER.. IT IS JUST GREAT. IT GIVES YOU A TREMENDOUS SATISFACTION AND CONFIDENCE TO START OUR DAY!!

Not to sound crazy but I'm speaking from knowledge because I'm an Electronic Engineering Tech. All video monitors including your phone flash over 1,000,000 times per second. Your eye cant see it but your brain can. Your screen looks solid but its not. It causes all humans to go into "Flicker-Induced Hypnosis" after about 5 seconds. In that state you can be made to feel great joy, hunger, anger, or sadness by what you see because your suggestive a.k.a. hypnotized. That's scientifically why you obsess over your phone you love the joy being hypnotized brings you. That's the truth I'm telling you its scientific and I believe Jesus would tell you the same. The down side is being in suggestion makes it easier for you to sin because being hypnotized while watching sinful actors changes your good behavior. bad company corrupts good morals. God Bless.

I downloaded John Piper's reading/reciting Romans 8 and use that as my alarm! Fighting the flesh first thing in the morning

i love how the background is literally forcing you to see how to connect the dots

When I first thing every morning reach for my phone it's to watch Christian & teaching videos before I start the day.

Wow this is such a good word. Tomorrow morning is going to be a great day! Today Tomorrow and the day after that is the day that the Lord has made!!!

Amen Amen Amen Amen...

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Praise be to you, Lord; teach me your decrees. With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth. I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.

I admit I look at the weather app and fb when I first get up. But I also listen to this desiring God, Charles Stanley for a bit of devotions before I try to read my Bible. I'm not perfect by any means but this helps me

All Glory to God for these great bite-sized lessons!

Every time. ..a word so in season. ..restoring my complete hope in God

God Bless you Thank you

Me and my wife.. Putting on the armour of God, not long after opening our eyes, another day another mercy.... amongst other things, asking in prayer that he may use us as vessels through his great love to glorify his name, by reaching lost souls through his testimony of saving power...that he opens doors of evangelistic opportunities and by his spirit scattering seeds through us his servants.

Wonderful! So fitting for today! I just started telling my kids that they cannot look at their phone for at least an hour in the morning. I already made this rule for myself a couple of years ago and it really does make a big difference

God bless you John Piper

I addictively grab my phone for morning prayer as I pray through books of the Bible.

Hi! May God's strength be upon you, Pastor John and friends!

Everyday I watch episode of desire God...its help my spiritual growth to always put God first in mind.

I Love when he starts spreaking about what our agenda SHOULD be in the Mornings, LOVE IT!

Thank you Pastor John. I so needed this word today. Amen

Amen!

I have been laziness for many years, then God discipline me at least 3 times I thought because I am foolish not understand the dream so that He has to show my sin as laziness to me many times .I alway sleep till noon but right now I always wake up at almost same time everyday because my stomach with air-blowing make me won’t stay in bed any longer just want to get up immediately.All I want to say is God is helping me☺️.

God bless you John

Glory to our Almighty God for this inspiring message......

Oh yes sir! Definately curbing this flow of bad habits! With my kids it can be a struggle but I am determined

So helpful, even until now. Thank you, Pastor. Praise JESUS!

I’m grateful for the Lord helping me encounter this channel which helps me to answer a lot of my questions and concerns, I know it was no accident❤️

Thank you pastor John! truly!

I watched this video first thing in the morning thank u

Amen

Just what I needed to hear

I have wasted far too many years reading the Bible and praying to nothing. My morning devotional is to now educate myself on the world from a perspective without god--the joy I feel now surpasses anything I ever heard Piper talk about.

wow... I never thought this would happen to me but it eventually did! Thanks for this counsel!

Genesis 20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

I'm glad I picked up my phone today, otherwise I wouldn't have seen this video. It's still morning so I have time to make it right

Oh goodness the one video my flesh didn’t wanna watch this morning☕️😂

Thank you sir

I used to think I wasn’t a morning person....until I became a morning person. I realized that I had created an idol of comfort - I’d rather stay in my comfortable, warm bed than get up and seize the day. My flesh desired/desires comfort; however, this “comfort zone”, I realized, was killing me (not necessary literally, but spiritually). This idol of comfort had held me back for so long and had seriously deterred my personal growth, and I didn’t even realize it until just recently (it is humbling to realize that it took me 20+ years to see these things that, in hindsight, were staring me in the eyes the whole time - but I didn’t like the implications, so I ignored them and looked for other answers). Realizing this - and deciding to do something about it - has opened up my eyes to many other forms of idolatry that I had created or allowed in to my life. It was actually quite freeing: recognizing the problem, which meant that I could then tackle the problem. Unsurprisingly, I have so far found Jesus to be the only remedy - not to say that He has removed these struggles, but He has given me peace; and that, though Him and His strength, I have been given victory, even if not fully attained yet. John 16:33; Romans 8:6-8; John 14:27; Philippians 4:13; Romans 8:37; Philippians 3:12 (Ps. I include these Scriptures not to show off or anything like that, but in recognition that this struggle has brought each of those scriptures to life and I can now actually identify with them, instead of being just words on a page).

Great stuff guys, absolutely life-changing for me. Glory to the GOD.

Thank you!

I don't know any other way to request this, but will Desiring God please include the scriptures referenced in the videos in the description box? Thank you!

We wake up to Praise Music and the Daily Verse

Maybe an alarm to wake us up, THEN the scripture, when the alarm has gotten out attention and focus.

That was deep! Gob bless you!

I am literally listening to this in the morning on my phone lol!

I need to listen to this one a few times.

Using Scripture as an alarm is an amazing idea!

Great video. Thanks for what you all do at the Desiring God ministry.

Thank you for the advice, I will try to implement this

EXCELLENT !!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks for the msg

Face book is actually very dangerous to have .pray for and ask God to change ur 💓

Romans 15:7 ” Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” YOU ARE AMAZING AND HAVE AN AMAZING DAY! 😎😎

I hate my social media addiction so bad. It's so annoying, just seeing hours pass by, restless knowing there is still something I have to do. The mornings over and I haven't even gotten started on my day because of my phone. Sometimes I just wanna throw my phone and blow up social media but I can't because without social media I probably wouldn't have been saved. So I'm thankful but I hate the curse that is associated with it. Sometimes I wish I could just teleport to the mountains where there is no technology, no distractions and it's just me and God. And I could spend my morning with God instead of my stupid phone. My dicipline is TRASH. It used to be good back in 2021 but then 2022 came and I became lazy as crap. I'm not blaming my mom but based on what my mom did I made the wrong choice. She made it so I couldn't workout in the morning anymore and instead of being like "Ok thats not gonna stop me, I'll just workout when I come back from school until she allows me to workout in the morning again." No instead I complained like a little 5 year old and after a while just started skipping workouts. Then when easter break came I made it easy on myself and made the choice that I could pray after I eat breakfast while sitting in a chair! Then eventually I got saved around the end of may to the beginning of juneish of 2022. I had doubts of my salvation and had to deal with that for a long time. But then eventually it stopped and I got into self improvement, starting watching Hamza and stuff. But it was driven out of emotion instead of dicipline. When I was motivated I would workout. When I was motivated I would wake up early. This one time I was waking up early and I did for 2 days 😂. Man but those 2 days were amazing. I wanna be diciplined so bad but I feel like I'm a slave to my emotions. I know that I shouldn't just do what I feel like but I do it anyways. My unconcious just always takes over. I hate it so dang bad and if I could get rid of it in a button I would. I'm tryna make small steps everyday but sometimes I just feel discouraged. It's a tough life bruh but at the end of it when you hear "Well done my good and faithful servant." Its all gonna be worth it. Thank you all who listened, God bless

This brought me joy because my housemate woke me up by playing "He will Hold me Fast" as I've been trying not to use my phone in the morning

This video has inspired me to get out of be much earlier then my normal 8:00 thank you been so helpful 🥰😀

Oh snap I am lying here reaching and look at me convicted😂😂

This just detonated my routine

AMEN

I'm ironically watching this 45 seconds after waking up

Awesome

Oh my goodness Stop! Don't think like you do your putting negative thoughts in my mind Hating me wow! I have my morning set God is always with me Your a total stranger I'm listening to I'm ok and your ok I'm glad in the Lord daily in everyway He is always with me God Will never leave me nor forsake me All in all Thank you for sharing

Iam going to leave my phone in kitchen so when I wake up I will wake up and read my bible and prayer.

Once again, iron sharpening iron.. Edification through God's sanctifying power..... ✝️🙏

may we spend our mornings with you Lord for all mornings belong to you why not spend at least some time with the one who made them?

Thank the Lord for another day! Definitely going to pray first. I do grab my phone and or go to the bathroom first and then pray. 👎🏻

I woke up for work and through this on lol

Today is that day.

My brother had the same idea! It was for notifications instead! :D

Thank you

I find I can't read the Bible as soon as I get up. I need time to get my mind awake(so to speak).

Android solution: MacroDroid app, with up to 5 free macros. Trigger = (whatever time in the morning) Action = open Bible app Action = click "read" (yes, you can show the macro where to click!) Action = click play button This will just pick up reading wherever you left off. You could probably have it navigate to a specific book/chapter/verse each day, but that seems like too much work!

I am watching this on my phone....Also it is my alarm clock.And my watch.

Sounds pretty insane and simple yet Answer to my brain and prayer!

If you want a biblical motivation to wake up and do something productive with your mornings, just read Proverbs 6-11.

Is phone addiction okay if I'm on it for religious purposes? 80% of what I do on my phone is watch Christian KZfaq videos or read articles to help me and keep me in check. I do typically say a good morning prayer when I get up if I don't wake up having an anxiety attack about Hell or something that happened the day before.

pastor, God bless you

I agree

Beautiful morning to everyone. ❤️ If I may insert this, I need your help. If it's ok, please pray for me and my fam. May we finally have a stable source of income, my heart breaks for my fam and I am so ashamed of begging around. May we also have a place of our own, instead of painfully walking on eggshells in someone else's. 🙏 Thank you. May you have a great Christmas. ❤️

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Why do I keep hearing psalm 5,4... Going on for days and days and here again

WHATS THE UPDATE ON THE APP THAT STARTS READING THE WORD OF GOD TO WAKE US UP?