How Do You Have A Personal Christian Devotion?
• Realize that personal devotions have to be a choice. If we have relationship based on a “have to” then it is more like a work relationship than a love relationship. Devotions have to be based on love. • Do devotions as soon as you wake up. Here you are still relaxed and setting the tone for the day, spending time reflecting on God’s Word must be beneficial in this. • Have a set place for devotion and certain ideas on how you will “do” devotion. • Start by listening to God, read the Bible and spend time meditating on it. Devotion is not a good time to follow a reading plan, otherwise you will get sucked into a “have to” and not spend time listening to God. However a separate Bible reading plan is useful as we need to know what God is saying and know how to place Scripture in context but this is different from a time of devotion. • Involve prayer in your meditation; you can pray verses or converse with God while reading the Bible; just make sure you are also listening to what God might
