A Day Alone With God
(Thanks: Oregon Conference Ministerial Dept.)
- Why spend a day in prayer?
- For extended fellowship with God
- For a renewed perspective
- For catching up on intercession
- For prayerful consideration of our own lives with God
- For adequate personal preparation
- Suggestions on how to spend the day
- Get away from distractions
- Take a Bible, notebook, pencil, smartphone, etc.
- Keep a journal
- Record meaningful Bible texts, revelations, requests, expectations, impressions
- Write poems, songs, psalms
- Either for your personal reflection or to share with others
- Keep a journal
- Vary the day
- Read a while, pray a while, walk a while
- Divide the day into three parts
- Waiting on the Lord
- Don’t hurry—Isa 40:31; Ps 27:14; Ps 62:5
- Experience His presence—Ps 139
- Worship Him—Ps 103; 111; 145
- Praying for others
- Ask for specific requests
- Examine Paul’s prayers for others—Phil 1; Col 1; Eph 1, 3
- Pray specific Bible promises for them
- Praying for yourself
- For important decisions
- To understand Scripture—Ps 119:18
- Follow the Jabez prayer—1 Chron 4:10
- To follow God’s will—John 4:34
- Waiting on the Lord
- Determine to act on the Holy Spirit’s promptings
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