Weekend Resource: Guide to the quiet time
Posted by Daniel C. Wilson on Aug 15th, 2009 in Bible Reading & Quiet Time, Mastering the Bible, Recommended Reading, Weekend Resource
Resource: Guide to the quiet time (click to download)
Do you struggle with discipline in your quiet time?
Distractions?
Dryness?
Diligence?
This short booklet covers the problems of discipline, distractions, dryness, and diligence, and offers helpful suggestions for overcoming each.
Download it, print a copy or two, and pass the link along to an accountability partner or group of friends.
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Excellent! I just printed two copies of the brochure for my wife and I. Thanks, Daniel.
P.S.– for those who may not know: just click on the resource title above to bring up a printable format of the brochure.
Having more thoroughly read this brochure since posting yesterday’s comment, I am compelled to post a caution regarding it:
We are not all equally gifted with the knack for order and structure in our lives. This brochure can help many to develop these skills, but it may also seem overwhelming to those who are habitually unstructured.
This brochure is A tool, not THE tool for developing a “quiet time” with the Lord. The one genuine and infallible key to said quiet time is our Lord Jesus Christ himself! Let your confidence be in Him alone, and not in this or any method.
If the method works for you, by all means employ it, but if you falter at it, modify it to fit your needs. Or discard it altogether and ask the Lord to grant you wisdom in developing some other way of learning to enjoy His presence and grow therein.
He has begun a good work in you and will continue it, with or without brochurse and methods; by His Holy Spirit, and according to His Holy Word. Ask Him and don’t stop asking Him until you have what you desire of Him: Himself.
Al, I pray all heed your caution. The resource certainly is intended to be nothing but a tool, and as such, your clarification was well needed.
“Ask Him and don’t stop asking Him until you have what you desire of Him: Himself.” Amen.
I think this quote from Francis Chan, is right in line with what Al is saying:
“Over time I realized that when we love God, we naturally run to Him – frequently and zealously. Jesus didn’t command that we have a regular time with Him each day. Rather, He tell us to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” He called this the “first and greatest commandment (Matt.22:37-38). The results are intimate prayer and study of His word. Our motivation changes from guilt to love.
This is how God longs for us to respond to His extravagant, unending love: not with a cursory: “quiet time” plagued by guilt, but with true love expressed through our lives. Like my little girl running out to the driveway to hug me each night because she loves me.”
I listened to the audiobook, but you can also find that quote here.
Just found you site. I subscribed via email. Thanks for the resources.
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