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Share your heart: what is within us, we can spend time
troubling you, what you are with God in a variety of places.
thankful for, and your hopes and Don’t limit yourself in ways to
dreams. He listens. accessing the Father.
If anything in your life has Read your bible. Underline,
taken precedence to spending highlight, or write out passages,
time with God, consider putting verses, phrases, or words that
it on the backburner for a while. speak to you. These are the gifts
When all the social media, that keep on giving when you
entertainment, current events, or need encouragement down the
things of the future take road.
precedence, it can be almost Try writing out your
impossible to find room for God. prayers yourself in a dedicated
Consider limiting the amount of notebook and record the answers
time you spend on these activities to those prayers as you receive
and use that time to grow closer them.
to God.
Meditate on Scripture. Read
Make An Intentional Effort to it several times and invite the
Draw Near.
Holy Spirit to speak to you about
Set aside a time where you what you have learned in the
can be alone with God in a place context of what is happening in
with few distractions. Waking up your life right now. It does not
a half hour earlier to read the have to be a long verse.
Word or spend time in prayer I have a Senior Pastor who is big
might be just the thing to help on telling us to use a journal to
you strengthen your relationship write down what God has been
with Christ. YouTube has a speaking to us about each day.
variety of excellent audio Bibles Journals aren’t for everyone, but
to listen to which have the text, I am learning they can be a
so you can read along. Possibly valuable tool to help build your
this would be of help. God will faith.
meet you where you are and
since the Holy Spirit dwells
