Yes, we should worship and praise God corporately, pray together with our families and brothers and sisters in Christ, and not forsake the assembling together with one another. But that doesn't constitute a devotional life.
Having a devotional life means being in the presence of God, one on one, your private time with God. It's a time to pray, have a two way dialogue with your heavenly Father, and where we should do more listening than talking. A time to let God know what's on your mind, what your dealing with, and what you need Him to do in your life. Conversely, it's a time to let God deal with you about the things He wants to address in your life, which if we let Him usually helps us with what we are concerned about.
Our devotional life is also a time to worship and praise the Lord with no one else around, to express to Him how much we love Him and need Him in our lives, cathching a deeper revelation of who He really is. It's also a time to not just read but dig in and study His Word, asking God to open it up for us so we understand what it means and how to apply it in our lives.
While we should spend time throughout the day communicating with God, our devotional life should be how we start our day, in the same place and at the same time each to the extent possible, just like miss Clara did in the movie "War Room". Where is your War Room?
So if you don't have a devotional life man of covenant, start one right where you are. If you already have a devotional life, let God see examine it and show you how you can go deeper in your personal relationship with Him because that's what our devotional life should really be all about, continually developing and going deeper in our personal relationship with God.
Our devotional life is also a time to worship and praise the Lord with no one else around, to express to Him how much we love Him and need Him in our lives, cathching a deeper revelation of who He really is. It's also a time to not just read but dig in and study His Word, asking God to open it up for us so we understand what it means and how to apply it in our lives.
While we should spend time throughout the day communicating with God, our devotional life should be how we start our day, in the same place and at the same time each to the extent possible, just like miss Clara did in the movie "War Room". Where is your War Room?
So if you don't have a devotional life man of covenant, start one right where you are. If you already have a devotional life, let God see examine it and show you how you can go deeper in your personal relationship with Him because that's what our devotional life should really be all about, continually developing and going deeper in our personal relationship with God.
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