Comments on: P’s in the Pod–Obstacles to Experiencing God. http://thepracticaldisciple.com/2010/01/ps-in-the-pod-obstacles-to-experiencing-god.html The discipleship guide to christian spiritual growth Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: admin http://thepracticaldisciple.com/2010/01/ps-in-the-pod-obstacles-to-experiencing-god.html/comment-page-1#comment-946 admin Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:26:43 +0000 http://thepracticaldisciple.com/?p=865#comment-946 Lisa--I am glad God spoke to you through that sermon and nudged you to get back into daily quiet time. I will post some biblical journaling exercises that our youth are doing as they study the Peter's life. That might be a concrete way to get moving again if you don't have something else in mind. Otherwise, just be sure to withdraw in the Word and prayer daily. Don't be worried about the quantity of the time as much as the quality. If that doesn't make sense tell me and I can unpack it. Journaling helps me be more present to what I am doing. Being engaged in your reading is part of what I mean by quality. The bottom line is now that you are aware of being passive, set some realistic concrete action steps to hone in on God's voice daily. You have a lot of tools in your tool bag for doing this, but if you want thoughts or suggestions just drop me a note. I think one of my biggest learnings from The Christmas Manifesto I did was how powerful being vigilantly intentional is. I wrote a list of intentions for Advent and read them daily to keep me acting on them. You may want to do something similar. I look forward to hearing your progress. Thank you for commenting and Christ's love right back to you. Lisa–I am glad God spoke to you through that sermon and nudged you to get back into daily quiet time. I will post some biblical journaling exercises that our youth are doing as they study the Peter’s life. That might be a concrete way to get moving again if you don’t have something else in mind. Otherwise, just be sure to withdraw in the Word and prayer daily. Don’t be worried about the quantity of the time as much as the quality. If that doesn’t make sense tell me and I can unpack it. Journaling helps me be more present to what I am doing. Being engaged in your reading is part of what I mean by quality. The bottom line is now that you are aware of being passive, set some realistic concrete action steps to hone in on God’s voice daily. You have a lot of tools in your tool bag for doing this, but if you want thoughts or suggestions just drop me a note. I think one of my biggest learnings from The Christmas Manifesto I did was how powerful being vigilantly intentional is. I wrote a list of intentions for Advent and read them daily to keep me acting on them. You may want to do something similar. I look forward to hearing your progress. Thank you for commenting and Christ’s love right back to you.

]]> By: Lisa Beth http://thepracticaldisciple.com/2010/01/ps-in-the-pod-obstacles-to-experiencing-god.html/comment-page-1#comment-945 Lisa Beth Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:37:08 +0000 http://thepracticaldisciple.com/?p=865#comment-945 Dear Yonnie, I greatly needed to hear this message. I just got through listening to the PodCast (which I'm SO glad you began including in your posts). The more I allow my life to become cluttered and chaotic, it becomes increasingly easy to accuse God of pulling away when in reality, it is all me. I laughed out loud when you told the story of singing in choir and trying to sing whatever part you could hear. First of all, the image is hilarious! But here lately, that's exactly what is going on in a figurative sense. I've lost that peace that comes from a regular set-aside time with God in a purposeful manner. What's more, losing the ability to single out God's voice is enough to wreak havoc in anyone's life, because you're then left to follow anything that sounds good or right at the moment. I've let my nightly bible study become a meaningless routine and find myself lacking a passion for seeking God's voice with all my being. Entirely too much passivity going on here. Thankfully, you taught me heaping amounts earlier on, and all I need is a reminder for it to come flooding back and to give me a kick in the tush. Love ya buddy Dear Yonnie,

I greatly needed to hear this message. I just got through listening to the PodCast (which I’m SO glad you began including in your posts). The more I allow my life to become cluttered and chaotic, it becomes increasingly easy to accuse God of pulling away when in reality, it is all me.

I laughed out loud when you told the story of singing in choir and trying to sing whatever part you could hear. First of all, the image is hilarious! But here lately, that’s exactly what is going on in a figurative sense. I’ve lost that peace that comes from a regular set-aside time with God in a purposeful manner. What’s more, losing the ability to single out God’s voice is enough to wreak havoc in anyone’s life, because you’re then left to follow anything that sounds good or right at the moment. I’ve let my nightly bible study become a meaningless routine and find myself lacking a passion for seeking God’s voice with all my being. Entirely too much passivity going on here. Thankfully, you taught me heaping amounts earlier on, and all I need is a reminder for it to come flooding back and to give me a kick in the tush.
Love ya buddy

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