Two-month devotional guide – “Meeting God in His Word” –
Meeting God in His Word is a reachable two-month guide that could change your life. It’s also a great gift for someone you care about! It’s a 15-minute plan for each day.
Here’s how it works
Meeting God in His Word
Step 1 – First five minutes… in praise and giving thanks
It’s best to enter God’s presence with praise and thankfulness. We honor God by declaring His greatness: “Father in heaven, your name is exalted, and you are worthy of praise. Today, I praise you because you are the only true God. I specifically praise you because of your:
Focus on one attribute each day (a long list of attributes is provided)
- Love: sacrificial giving for my benefit
- Mercy: withholding the judgment I deserve
- Grace: goodness to me when I only deserve judgment.
- Patience: bearing with disobedient creatures like me
- Kindness: thoughtful actions for my good
- Faithfulness: loyalty and trustworthiness
- Holiness: complete uniqueness and separation from sin
- Power: your ability to do all things
- Salvation: provider of forgiveness and reconciliation
- Sovereignty: absolute authority and rule over your creation
“I praise you for salvation through my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Through Jesus alone, I come to you. He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is your gift of love to me as an unworthy sinner. I thank you that through Jesus I have been…
- Forgiven of my sins
- Justified in your sight
- Reconciled to you
- Adopted as your child
- Given the Holy Spirit who lives in me
- United with the body of Christ, the Church
- Assured a home in heaven”
“I acknowledge that (apart from Jesus as my Savior), I am unworthy of you and your love. I ask you to teach me how to live a life that pleases you. Open my eyes to see and my ears to hear as I enter your Word. I humbly ask you to use your Word in my life to change me more into your likeness.”
Step 2 – Second five minutes… specific Scriptures
Carefully read the chosen verses and underline keywords or phrases
Consider the following example.
John 14:1-3
“Don’t be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.” (NLT)
The underlined words and phrases are the ones that make connections with your life.
Re-read the verses several times and pause to think about the words and phrases you underlined. Think about ways that these words connect with your walk with God.
Step 3 – Final five minutes… responding to God through His Word
Talk to God about the connections you’re making in the words and phrases. Perhaps one or two key ideas speak to your walk with God in deeply needed ways. In the passage above, we could talk to God about our tendency to be troubled or our need to grow in our trust in God’s plan for us. We could also thank God for giving us assurance for our future. We could tell him how much we look forward to being in that place Jesus is preparing for us. Finally, through this Scripture, we could express our longing to always be with our Savior.
TWO DAILY EXAMPLES
Meeting God in His Word
Date __________
Time __________
Scripture
Colossians 3:23-24 – “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”
- 5 Minutes of Praise and Giving Thanks
- 5 Minutes in the Word (underline key-words and phrases)
- 5 Minutes Responding to God through His Word (focus on the underlined parts)
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Meeting God in His Word
Date __________
Time __________
Scripture
Romans 5:8-10 – “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”
- 5 Minutes of Praise and Giving Thanks
- 5 Minutes in the Word (Underline keywords and phrases)
- 5 Minutes Responding to God through His Word (Focus on the underlined words)
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Steve Cornell
Some things defy explanation.
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