Learning to Have Quiet Time

Having a meaningful QT is a very important spiritual discipline. Throughout history great men and women have testified that they have grown so much in their spiritual walk through having QT. Learning the technique to have QT is easy, but it's not easy to maintain the discipline. So though there would been a gap it's important that we pick it up where we left and continue to journey.

It is more meaningful to select a book and read it over a period of time till the end instead of selecting a passage at random. One can start with Genesis and proceed onto Exodus and so on. But if is really new to the text, it's fine to start with the New Testament's Matthew, Mark, Luke and so on. Quiet Time for half and hour kind of reading has to be complemented with serious study of the text from time to time. 

So here's a technique. 

1. Pray and then read the passage, preferably, twice. 

2. Meditate. During meditation of the passage ask these following questions: 

a. Is there any example in the passage I need to emulate/follow?

b. Is there any command I must to obey? 

c. Is there any sin I should avoid? 

d. Is there any promise God gives to me? 

e. What character/quality of God does this passage teach me?

3. Pray, which may include praise, confession, seeking his strength and then close.