Spiritual Disciplines

Practices for Everyday Life

Spiritual Disciplines

Resources

The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives by Dallas Willard is a great book on the overall subject of spiritual disciplines

Scripture Reading: there are so many resources like the Dwell app daily devotional, listening to or reading through the Psalms or the Gospels

Prayer: journal your prayers, pray through Scripture (Praying the Bible by Donald S. Whitney), praying out loud, short prayers throughout the day, pray in the car

Meditation: Lectio Divina in the Dwell app or check out a book: Meeting God In Scripture by Jan Johnson

Gratitude: Here are a couple of nice blog posts on gratitude

Release prayers: My good friend wrote a blog post about release prayers here:

Confession: (here is Richard Foster's brief description, a well respected author on spiritual disciplines)

Silence & Solitude: a couple of blog posts on these disciplines:

Worship: The Worship Initiative albums on Spotify are great to worship God through music; Here is a blog post on what worship is: 

Fasting: https://national.cc/articles/all-about-fasting I often fast from other things as well such as tv or screens in general outside of what is necessary for work

Listening to Jesus: https://www.mrsmollywilcox.com/post/the-spiritual-discipline-of-listening
consider asking Jesus simple questions: How do you feel about being with me today? Is there anything you want to say to me?