Spending time with God is something Christians mostly recognize is obligatory for spiritual vitality but often struggle to attain. Why? It is often for one in every of two reasons. Either a person is simply too ambitious. They start with grandiose ideas of reading an enormous amount of the Bible and praying for hours, and manage to stick with it for per week or two but then fall flat. Instead, start small. Start with 5 minutes a day. Soon enough, you’ll find it constructing from there. But the “a day” piece is what really matters. It’s like eating: don’t eat once per week and think it’s enough (nonetheless good the meal could also be). Get into the Bible every day. The other reason why people fail is because they haven’t any plan. You need proactively to come to a decision when you’ll have a quiet time, where you’ll have a quiet time, and what you’ll do in that quiet time. I cannot provide you with rules for all that, but here’s a quick set of easy ideas to get you going. When: very first thing within the morning. Not everyone has their quiet time very first thing within the morning, but typically, it’s the perfect time. Where: anywhere you’ll be able to be undisturbed. Lock the restroom door and have your quiet time there if you have to. The point is it must be as much as possible undisturbed. It’s a time between you and God. What: obviously, the Bible. But perhaps not so obviously. People appear to have “devotions” when reading people’s thoughts in regards to the Bible. It’s tremendous to read a “devotional,” too, however it must only complement, never supplant, the actual Words of God. Start with one in every of Paul’s letters. The letter to the Philippians, as an illustration. Read just a few verses at a time. Ask God to talk to you. Expect the Holy Spirit to make use of His Word to handle you as you read His Word. Then pray back to God what he has said to you: “Lord God, help me to be more like you’ve gotten just shown me that I have to be.”
Whatever ways you select to glorify God this summer, make sure that they’re biblical. Look at your summer as a special opportunity to honor the Lord Jesus.
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