How Do You Structure Your Quiet Time?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Pastor J.D. shares helpful tips to structure quiet time with God and reminds listeners that It’s more important to find a rhythm that works for them than to do it “the right way.”

A glimpse inside this episode:

* Pastor J.D.'s Personal Method: 15-15-15

* 15 minutes of Bible reading
* 15 minutes of prayer
* 15 minutes of devotional, Scripture memorization, etc.

* ACTS method of praying

* Adoration
* Confession
* Thanksgiving
* Supplication

* Prayer helps

* Paul Miller's A Praying Life
* Notecards, journaling, going for walks, etc.

* Gospel Prayer from Gospel

* In you, there is nothing I could do to make you love me more; nothing I have done that makes you love me less.
* You are all I need today for everlasting joy.
* As you have been to me, so I will be to others.
* As I pray, I’ll measure your compassion by the cross and your power by the resurrection.

* Start where you are!

* Don’t get overwhelmed.
* If you aren’t doing anything at all, start with 5 or 10 minutes. Don’t let what others are doing intimidate you from just starting.

* It’s more important that you find a rhythm that works for you than to do it “the right way.” To paraphrase a friend of mine, “I like my way of meeting with God better than your way of not meeting with him.”

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0:00.0	Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network.
0:05.0	You're listening to Ask Me Anything with Pastor J.D. Greer.
0:09.2	Honest questions, quick answers.
0:11.3	I'm your host, Todd Unzicker, and this is where J.D. Gre said they could ask you anything.
0:35.7	So this week folks want to know how do you structure your quiet
0:39.4	time? I mean, what is your regular rhythm? What are you doing to spend time with God? How do you
0:44.0	structure your quiet time? Yeah, that's a great and just a very practical question,
0:47.1	because I have found that the quality of your time with God determines a lot about the quality
0:52.1	of your spiritual life. And I need daily a time that I can
0:55.0	maybe it's one of the biggest things to point out. It's just you need to have a time with God,
0:59.9	a time where you can recalibrate, a time where you can meet with him. I think one of the ways
1:04.4	you've got to think about this is it's less important to find the right way as if there's a
1:09.6	right way and a wrong way. And it's more about just meeting with God.
1:12.6	I remember when I was here, my dad explained this.
1:16.5	From the time I've been a kid, I could remember getting up early in the morning and four or five a.m.
1:21.8	And I knew exactly where to find my dad.
1:23.8	And he told me one time, he said, I didn't always do my quiet time.
1:26.5	He says, I made a commitment
1:27.5	at this, after hearing the pastor preach on it. He said, and I, he says, I woke up like an hour
1:33.5	early the next morning. And he said, why am I up an hour early? And he said, the Holy Spirit just whispered
1:38.3	in my heart. I was so excited to meet with you that, you know, I just had to wake you up early in it. It just emphasized to me that
1:45.0	this is a time to meet with God, not just to read the Bible, not to do a Bible study, not just to go
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