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Devotion Plans

I have learned much this last week.  I had a great response to my informal survey on devotion and prayer time among my Christian friends.  (See the previous three posts for those details.)

So now that I have all this information at my disposal, what am I going to do with it you might ask?  Well I'll tell you.  I have developed a plan for me to start out with.

My new devotion plan involves eating within an hour of waking up and doing my daily quiet time before I get to play with my blackberry.  This takes into account my work days when I'll be at work doing my devotion before getting started.  I've started to make a habit of getting to work early anyway so now I can do my devotions in that time.  For days I'm off, there's no computer, TV or blackberry before devotions and some prayer time.

The one exception is for now I'm getting the Daily Bread email until the little booklet comes.  I'm allowed to look that up on my blackberry.  But once I start getting the little devotional booklets no blackberry.

That's the "when".  This is the "what".  I'm starting out small.

1) Read the scripture that goes with the Daily Bread entry
2) Read the Daily Bread entry
3) Read the Chapter of Proverbs that corresponds to the day's date  (There are 31 chapters of Proverbs, so that works out for a month of reading.)
4) Write in S.O.A.P. journal about either the Daily Bread entry or the Proverbs chapter
5) Write down prayers

So that's the plan in a nutshell.  Today was good. 

Two other items I'm dedicating myself to are for my mental state of health as much as my spiritual.

The first is, I'd like to establish a place to go in the morning to do my devotions mon my days off.  Somewhere where I can become a "regular".

The second is I'm going to look and seek service opportunities both big and small.  It could be as "small" as helping a friend with some home projects.  It could be as "big" as photographing Table of Christmas again.  The point is, I want to pray about what ministry God wants me in and go for it.

That's all for now.  And maybe all for the week.  We'll see.

God bless.
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