A Moment with God

About the Book

This book is written to help, shape, form, and foster a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Through spending quality time with our Savior and Lord, it is how and why the believer growths and develops a personal solid, sound, and strong relationship. Relationships are built and develop from spending quality time with the person who you love the most. If a person truly loves God, He/she will spend that quality time with Him. Someone stated, “Time is money and losing time is losing money.” The blessings will not flourish or multiply, unless the individual spending quality and meaningful time with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The fact of the matter is that Lord Jesus Christ is the Blesser, and a person should have a need, desire, and want to spend time with the one who blesses him/her. Spending quality time with the Lord Jesus Christ is dedicating and committing to worship, prayer, and studying His word. It is not about reading or quoting scriptures, but mediating and fellowship with Him. Having “A Moment with God” is about spending a committed and dedicated time with the Lord Jesus Christ on a daily and consistence, continuous, and constant basis. Psalm 1:2, “But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he mediate day and night.” A Moment with God is about delighting, which indicates that a person must spend time, cleave, and commit to worship, prayer, and mediating on His word. There is no secret to knowing, loving, and worshiping God, because these things happen when a person “abide[s] in Him and He abides in him/her” (John 15:7)—“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” The word abide means to set up residence or dwelling in the midst of. Through spending A Moment with God, it is asking, requesting, and praying for the ultimate worship, fellowship, and praise to take course, which is the ultimate resolution of God dwelling in the midst of. This is when a person knows that God is doing more than listening and answering prayers—he is actually dwelling within the person. Hopefully, through this book, A Moment with God: Devotional Book, the individual will develop, learn, and gather principles and concepts of significance value for spending quality time with God that will develop and foster a productive and positive relationship that will yield results. This is my prayer and hope.

About the Author

Dr. Travis S. Holmes is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. He is the youngest of three siblings and beloved son of Missionary Rose Ella Holmes and the late Franklyn Holmes. Dr. Holmes is married to Carol R. Johnson-Holmes, and they have three children: Tylah, Denzel, and Zynia. Dr. Holmes was educated in the public schools in Charleston and Berkeley Counties in South Carolina. He graduated from Stratford High School in 1993. He furthered his education at Morris College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation administration in 1999. He also is a graduate of Christian Life School of Theology where he received his bachelor of theology in 2001, master of theology in 2004, and master of divinity in 2007. He received a master of arts in professional counseling from South University in 2009, undertook further studies at Webster University, Argosy University, Walden University, and received a doctor of divinity from St. Luke Evangelical School of Studies in 2009. Dr. Holmes has been preaching for twenty-six years, pastoring for a total of seventeen years, and served in his capacity outside of ministry as professional counselor, political consultant, and community organizer. He is the pastor of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and works as therapist for Department of Mental Health in Charleston, South Carolina. He spends most of his time helping and encouraging others to be the best they can be. Dr. Holmes’s philosophy in life is, “If you see the need, you have heard the call.”