Written and Edited by Kalu Johnson
How to establish a quite time.
Would you
expect to be healthy if the only time you ate a meal was on Sunday morning? Of course
not, you would not survive long Do you think you will be any healthier
spiritually if you wait until Sunday morning to digest spiritual truth?
A daily
quite time provides regular contact with your source of spiritual life, Jesus Christ
himself. Each day you simply must find a time to be alone with Christ here are
some suggestions.
1. HAVE A SPECIFIC TIME AND PLACE. A desk
a table or even the side of your bed will do. It is important that you schedule
10 minutes for your quite time. If possible, schedule your quite time at start
of your day.
2. BE CONSISTENT. A hit and miss pattern
is an indication that you are not as serious as you need to be about growing as
a Christian. Your quite time is when you program your day to let Christ be Lord
of your life.
3. HAVE A BIBLE AND A PENCIL HANDY. For the
first 11 weeks of your quite time, you will be using this info five days a
week. Use your Sunday school lesson and your discipleship training material on
the other two days each week. Later you
will want to use a small notebook for keeping a spiritual growth diary.
4. BEGIN WITH PRAYER. Open your heart to
Christ, offering him the right to teach, to discipline or to direct you as you
study. Tell him you love him. Share your concerns with him.
5. END WITH A DEFINITE PROJECT FOR THE
DAY, RELATED TO WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED. Before you stop, decide how you can live
out the truth you have learned in your quite time.
HAVE TODAYS QUITE TIME RIGHT NOW
PRAY: express your love for God. Thank him for giving you his life
through Christ. Share with him the special ways you need his power in your
life. Ask him to live through you as you live your life today.
Read 1st 4: 13-15.
As you read the bible, God’s word you are getting spiritual nourishment. But
are you digesting what you read? One way to help you digest the thoughts in
scripture verses is to rewrite them in your own words, try doing this now with
the verses you have just read.
According to these verses, what gift confirms that you have become a Christian?
As a Christian you have received God’s gift of his holy spirit. What confession
causes God to abide in you and you to abide in God?
As a Christian you have experienced personally that God the father has
sent Jesus Christ to be the savior, your own savior as well as the savior of
the world. Now in what ways can you live out the truth of 1st john
4:13-15 in today’s task? What differences will there be in your attitudes? In your
actions End today’s quite time by writing at least one specific way you will
try to put the truths of 1st john 4:13-15 to work in your life today
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