Quiet Time: A Guide to an Effective Time Alone with God
By Jerry Evans
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Jerry Evans
Jerry Evans was born and educated in Cambridge, UK, always being interested in both conservation and writing children’s books. He studied Geography at university before having a busy career as an investment banker and more recently as a teacher. He took up writing again when he needed to tell his two sons lots of bedtime stories.
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Quiet Time - Jerry Evans
Contents
Introduction
Why Write and Publish This Book
Quiet Time
What is a Quiet Time?
Why Have a Quiet Time?
How does This Differ from
Bible Reading Plans, Bible Study,
or Reading Through the Bible?
What Do I Need to Get Started
in Order to Begin or to Improve
My Quiet Time?
Setting Up a Spiritual Journal
When, Where, What
and Why Have a Quiet Time!
New Believers or Those Who Have Recommitted Their Life to Christ
Rules to Remember
in Reading Proverbs or Psalms
All Remaining Scripture
Caution When Using Devotional Books
Be Careful When Using a Quiet Time Book
Private, Personal Worship
in Your Quiet Time
Things to Remember
How to Know if You’re Growing Spiritually Through Your Quiet Time
Introduction
missing image fileQuiet Time is designed to be used as a guide for having an effective, quiet time alone with God. Exactly what is a quiet time
? It is a regular, unhurried, and uninterrupted Bible reading, prayer, worship and meditation time alone with God. It is an important journey for Christians who desire to walk with God day by day. It is an exciting journey of spiritual growth. Only through a daily walk with God will you have the spiritual health to be all He wants. In any case, done correctly, a quiet time can take you on the most exciting journey of your Christian life. You will discover spiritual insights. You will receive instruction and guidance from the Holy Spirit, and you will discover God in a more personal way than you have ever known Him before.
It is a fact that, to remain healthy, our physical bodies must receive fresh air, food, and water. Our bodies will suffer if we are deprived of these essential elements. It works the same way with our spiritual lives. If we do not regularly feed our Spiritual lives, our spiritual condition becomes weak and diseased. We become spiritually malnourished and lose our heart for the things of God. It is only through consistently spending time with the Father that we can be in good spiritual condition.
Our vitality as Christians depends upon our spiritual food. Through a quiet time with God, we gain insight to His will for us, His wisdom, and His grace as we grow in Him. A quiet time becomes a discipline, a habit—a way of life — a lifestyle!
Why Write and Publish This Book
First of all, my life verse gives me direction and passion for living and ministering. Colossians 1:28–29 says, We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.
When I became a believer, no one ever showed me how to walk with the Lord. I was almost thirty-three years old when I learned what a quiet time was. I had struggled on my own trying to have what I thought was a quiet time. My daughter, who was thirteen years old at that time, attended a youth seminar. When she returned home, I asked to read her notes and the material she received. From that, my wife, daughter, and my son (who was ten