5 WAYS TO DRAW CLOSER TO JESUS

Be intentional about your relationship with God. When everything passes away you will see that it is your relationship with God that will matter. Here are some simple but effective ways to draw closer to God.

1. Spend time with God twice every day. When you wake up and before you go to sleep. You can do this by:

WORSHIP: Have a Worship session listen and or sing 15-30 minutes of worship music and then find a scripture from one of the songs and meditate on it before you sleep.

BIBLE STUDY: Do a character study of someone from the bible. Think about a character that you have heard so many things about like for example, do one on David. After you identified the character, find where his story began and ended then dive in! Look at his characteristics good and bad, what you should adopt from him and what you shouldn’t. Examine his relationship with God and others. In a nutshell, just go learn from his life or whichever character you decide to study. At the end of it you will even learn about many other characters and the character of God.

2. Pray 3 times per day and set an alarm to do so.

While you are to always acknowledge God in everything you do and think it is also good that you set aside special prayer times.

-Pray in the morning as you get up before you do anything else.

-Pray at noon

-Pray before you go to sleep

You can even identify something to pray for specifically at each interval.

3. Start thinking about your body as the mansion for God.

As believers, the Holy Spirit of God lives within you, knowing this we should live in a manner that honors him.

- Start exercising and eating healthy and do it in honor of God don’t only think about the benefits of looking good but think of it as being a good steward of the body God has given to you.

-Avoid certain activities that would be harmful to your body because you know who lives inside of you.

-Avoid sexual immorality at all cost, it grieves the Holy Spirit.

4. Journaling

-Prayer Journal- Write out your heart to God.

-Write about God

-We sell journals too so you can go to the journals section of the website and see all of them you can pick from!

5. Go to church

Avoid just staying home for the church service start going in person as well. I know various challenges might prevent you from going in person but do not make it an all the time thing!

-Try your best to mingle with other believers. Attend bible studies and small groups.

-Listen keenly to the sermon, there is always a message for you!

I pray that these tips will help you draw closer to God. God bless you!

Love, Tiani