What to do during a Quiet Time

Published: Mon, 04/10/17

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  • Convert or Disciple? What is the difference between a convert and a disciple? How can we move from believing to discipleship?
  • Discipleship Defined. What is a disciple? This lesson will look at three biblical components of discipleship.
  • How to Have a Life-changing Quiet Time. Living the disciple’s life can be summarized this way: exposing yourself to the Word each day, and striving to be obedient to that Word through the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • How to Live the Spirit Filled Life. There is more to Christian living than trying really hard to be good. We must be continually filled with the Spirit in order to live the disciple’s life.
  • Train Yourself to Be Godly. Training has to do with breaking down a complex task into component parts and practicing the parts until they become a habit. This is called training.
  • The Cost of Discipleship. Anyone who would be a disciple of Christ must take up their cross daily and follow Him.
  • Transformed by Habit. Most of life is habit. Disciples harness the power of habit in order to live the Disciple’s Life.

 

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What to do during a Quiet Time

The key distinctive of a study quiet time is the serious study of Scripture. If a half-hour is set aside for a quiet time, at least twenty minutes of it is Scripture study. An in-depth study of a passage using commentaries and a Bible dictionary is not unusual.

The study quiet time sinks our roots deep in Scripture. We lay up a rich store of spiritual truth that we can draw on throughout our lives. As we see how God works in the pages of Scripture, we learn to recognize his hand in our own lives. As we see how people responded to God, we are inspired—perhaps to seek God as David did, or to be more obedient than Saul was.

All that time in study leaves less time for prayer. Leisurely devotional worship gets crowded out. Prayer time is cramped: short, intense and task-oriented. It easily turns into a shopping list of things for God to do and problems for him to solve.

In a study quiet time, it is possible to learn all kinds of information about God but not encounter God. Our study of Scripture may become a purely mental experience. We tend to assume that because we are studying Scripture, we are in touch with God. Remember the issue for our quiet time: “Am I meeting with God?” — Stephen D. Eyre, Drawing close to God: The Essentials of a Dynamic Quiet Time: A Lifeguide Resource (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995).

This article excerpted from The Discipleship Course.

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