Tag: daily devotions

Categories
Forward Look Journal

On Planning Your Personal Prayer Times

Bible reading is the heart of devotional time

One of the key elements of our daily time alone with God is the devotional resource that we choose.  How do we go about choosing what to use?   

A good resource fits you personally.

First of all, a good devotional resource for you has to fit you and the kind of time alone with God that you are planning to have.  Do you like to read or is reading not your thing?  How much time do you have?   If you are a neophyte, I recommend something fairly short such as the Our Daily Bread booklet from Radio Bible Class that our church distributes.  But if you are planning to spend a half hour or 45 minutes at prayer, you might want to try something meaty like A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants (Reuben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck).

Continue reading “On Planning Your Personal Prayer Times”
Categories
Forward Look Journal

Happy New Year!

One of the first tasks for every Christian at the beginning of the year is to plan for their devotional life for the coming year.  The plan has several parts. 

Bible reading is the heart of devotional time
 

The key part is an organized Bible reading plan.  The Center for Bible Engagement says that only 1/3 of Americans read their Bible weekly and only 13.9% read it on weekdays.  Let’s be part of improving those stats.

 

  

 

Personally, I am at the halfway point in reading my Bible end to end again and propose to finish easily this year.   But many of you, my readers will be looking for other plans.   I recommend two.  One is to use a devotional book that has readings attached.    In addition to my sequential readings, I’m using a new collection of E. Stanley Jones writings selected for use as daily devotionals.  It has selected readings too.   A third tactic that I have also used is to get a Bible reading schedule.  Many are available.   I have included one good link http://www.backtothebible.org/index.php/Bible-Reading-Guides.html in my suggested links.     Here’s another link that offers multiple devotional series. http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/. 

I’ll write more soon.