Introduction
We continue with Part V from the booklet Spending Time With God, written by Pastor Danny Hodges of Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg in Florida.Fellowship with God is a tremendous privilege. It's also meant to be an amazing adventure every believer can experience. With inspiration and personal insight, Pastor Danny presents practical steps for developing a vibrant daily devotional life. Discover the privilege and the adventure as you learn the keys to spending time with God.
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part VI or Part VII.
The Routine for Spending Time With God
What does spending time with God look like?Prayer
Prayer is the second essential ingredient of fellowship with God. Prayer is simply talking to God. Through prayer, not only do we talk to God, but He talks to us. Jesus perfectly demonstrated what a prayer life should be like. He often withdrew to lonely, solitary places and prayed. Here are four practical suggestions regarding prayer that we find in the life of Jesus.- Find a Quiet Place.
You're probably thinking, You haven't been to my house—there isn't one! Then find the quietest place you can. If it's possible for you to leave and go to a quiet place, do that. But be consistent. Find a place you can go to on a regular basis. In Mark 1:35, it says, "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." Notice, he went to a solitary place.
It is my conviction and my personal experience, that if we don't learn to hear God in the quiet place, we won't hear Him in the noise. I really believe that. We learn to hear Him in the solitude first, and as we hear Him in the quiet place, we will take Him with us into the day. And in time, as we mature, we'll learn to hear God's voice even in the noise. But, it starts in the quiet place.
