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What time and place would be best for you to study the Bible and pray? Why?
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About 30-45 minutes before my kids wake up is the best for me. I sit in my dining room.
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It depends on the season. I’m learning to like the morning time. Discipline is key for me in this new year.
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I’m a snacker and meal eater. I start with a 5 minute devo before I get out of bed (but my dogs don’t like that, so I may have to change that to feed them and let them out first.) Then I have about an hour of studying with ODB around lunch and again about an hour at 7pm on nights that I don’t have my church or Bible Study group, then at about 9pm I read one chapter with my Bible App group and converse about it, and at bedtime I memorize one Bible verse and repeat that until I fall asleep. (Working on memorizing the entire book of John one verse per night.) That sounds like a lot when I write it out, but it’s what I have available to me in this season of my life. My issue is the meditation and prayer part of it. I send God short “text message-type” prayers throughout the day, but we never sit down and have deep meaningful conversations. I’m afraid to try to hear His voice because I got something terribly wrong that I thought He said about 5 years ago. Since then, I don’t trust myself to discern if what I am hearing is me, Satan, or God, so I just don’t do “Be still and know that I am God” anymore. I deeply want to have that relationship back, but fear has kept me from it. I have the head knowledge, and the past tense heart knowledge, I want to bring that back to present tense knowing Him and doing life with Him, instead of just doing life for Him.
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5:30 am by then I have the house to myself.
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I think early in the m morning would be the best and most consistent time to study and read the Bible. The later in the day it gets, the easier it is to get distracted by the events of the day.
