Time with God: Partnership Devo

August 27th, 2017

Time with God: Partnership

A Brief Introduction:

During the month of August our weekly parish devotional is going to be a bit different. Instead of a daily scripture passage with reflection and questions, there will be one devotional with a spiritual practice you to engage for the entire week. As we focus on spending time with God, the hope and prayer is that these spiritual disciplines will lead us deeper in our relationship with the Holy One. 

Scripture: John 15:7, James 4:2, and Mark 11: 21-25

Read the scripture daily. Read it slowly. What is God bringing to your attention through this passage? 

Questions to consider: 

• What does it look like for the word of God to abide in us?
• Do you think Jesus’s and James’s teachings on prayer mean that we always get what we pray for? Why or why not?
• How do we sometimes not give God the chance to respond to our prayers?
• Why do we at times not bear fruit for God’s Kingdom?

Spiritual Discipline.

Seek Spiritual Direction – give attention to your relationship with God through enlisting the help of another

Scripture: The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. (Isaiah 50:4)

Spiritual Practices:

• Enter into an intentional and regular relationship with a Spiritual Director. To find a list of directors in your area, go to www.sdiworld.org
• Allow another set of eyes and ears to help you interpret your experiences with God or God’s desire for your life.