3 Hour draw near to God Morning Routine

3 hour quiet time routine

3 steps:

1. Quiet Prayer and Rest Before God

a. Come before God and rest: let thoughts and worries come to your mind and give
them over to God.
b. Ask for God to fill you with His Spirit and to refresh you in His presence today.
c. Rest in silence. This will be hard. You may get antsy. It will be difficult to sit in
silence before God – but I want to encourage you to rest and press into the
silence. Because we live in such a fast paced culture, we so often neglect to be
still before God.
d. Focus on being mindful of where you are at right now. Don’t live in the past.
Don’t live in the future. If you are feeling guilty about things from your past –
give it to God. If you are feeling anxious about the unknowns of the future – give
it to God. This is the perfect time to let feelings and anxious thoughts rise to the
surface of your heart. Don’t just shove them away – but talk them through with
God and surrender them at His feet.
e. You may feel like you have no idea what you are doing as you sit silently before
God – that is totally okay! Don’t let that stop you. Being uncomfortable and
feeling inadequate during prayer is normal – even this you should give to God
and ask for His help and strength in prayer.

2. Reminding Yourself of the Gospel

a. After your time of prayer and rest, pull out your Bible and open to Romans.
b. Recently, I was reminded that I need to focus on the Gospel DAILY. The good
news of Jesus Christ dying for us and making a way for us to be in communion
with God the Father is the foundation and center of the Christian faith. To go a
day without the reminder of the gospel is like going a day without food. I had
gone awhile without the reminder of the gospel – and it was effecting the way I
was living. I wasn’t walking in love toward God and others as I should have been.
So, I started reading Romans and it reminded me of the truth that I am a sinner
in need of the grace of Jesus Christ. Reading about the gospel in Romans has
helped open my eyes to the deadliness of my sin, but also to the abundance of
God’s grace for a sinner like me.
i. Read: I want to encourage you to read through Romans. Take one
chapter a day. Today focus on Romans 1. But if you only want to read
Romans today, I would encourage you to read Romans 6: Dead to Sin,
Alive to God.
 ii. Rest, Think, and Pray: Let God’s word sink into your soul. Chew on His
word. Talk to God about what you just read.
iii. Read Again: Read the same chapter again with a child-like faith. Ask
yourself the following questions as you read it again:
1. What stood out to you?
2. What is penetrating your heart?
3. What does it say about who God is and what He has done for
you?
4. How will the Gospel change your life today?
iv. Journal Prayer: Journal out your prayer after reading this passage. God’s
word is God speaking to us – prayer is us communicating back to God!
Tell Him what’s on your heart and mind after reading this passage. Pour
out your heart before God.
3. Meditation and Prayer Walk
a. Choose a Psalm you want to memorize (if you don’t know which Psalm to
choose, I would HIGHLY suggest meditating on Psalm 1). Write down the Psalm
(or a part of the Psalm) on a piece of paper. Take that paper with you into
nature. Go on a prayer and meditation walk – constantly reading and thinking
about God’s word.
b. Meditation is the opposite of what the world says meditation is. The world says
you should empty your mind. God says you should fill your mind with His truth.
Meditation is simply reading, speaking, and focusing on God’s word. Read it over
and over again in your mind and out loud. Think about the text. Let the scripture
sink deep into your heart and mind. Let it wash over you like a wave of the
ocean.