Weekend Resource: 7 Minutes with God
Resource: 7 Minutes with God: How to plan a daily quiet time, by Robert D. Foster (Navigators).
Great Resource for Discipling a New Believer
Take a moment and think of someone you know who has only been told why to have a quiet time, not how. This pamphlet is concise and effective in explaining the why’s and how’s of a quiet time. That makes it a great resource of discipling a new believer. Years ago, God used it to completely change how I approached my quiet times and to instill in me the importance of daily time with the Lord.
The Golden Thread that Ties Every Great Man of God Together…
As a section of the pamphlet explains,
“They sought an answer and came up with a scheme they called the morning watch — a plan to spend the first minutes of a new day alone with God, praying and reading the Bible. The morning watch sealed the crack. It enshrined a truth so often obscured by the pressure of ceaseless activity that it needs daily rediscovery: To know God, it is necessary to spend consistent time with Him…
“The intimacy of communion with Christ must be recaptured in the morning quiet time. Call it what you want — the quiet time, personal devotions, the morning watch, or individual worship — these holy minutes at the start of each day explain the inner secret of Christianity. It’s the golden thread that ties every great man of God together — from Moses to David Livingstone, the prophet Amos to Billy Graham — rich and poor, businessmen and military personnel. Every man who ever became somebody for God has this at the core of his priorities: time alone with God.”
Here is a PDF version of 7 Minutes with God.
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