The Next Steps on Your Christian Journey

If you are like most people, once you read a book, you feel a sense of accomplishment, a sense of completion. Perhaps the next question in your mind is … Now what? Let me suggest several possibilities for you.

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Give This Book to Others

This book is about adoring God through Christian meditation, prayer, and reading God’s Word. It is about developing and deepening your relationship with God through Jesus Christ. The purpose of life is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Let us all help one another to live life with this purpose in mind.

Talk with Others About God

Begin talking with others about who He is, how He acts, what He is doing in your life, and His response to you as you meditate, pray, and read His Word. You will soon discover richer, deeper, more interesting relationships with others as you engage with them about the most important person in the world – God! 

Start a Small Group

Perhaps you’ve just finished this book with a group. If so, consider continuing the group again, working further on one another’s meditations, journaling, Bible reading, or prayers. Or create a new group. If you read this book alone, then reach out to others, give them copies of this book, and ask them if they’d like to join you in a small group to discuss a chapter per week together.

Structure Your Quiet Time

Re-think when you have your quiet time and how long you should be spending with God. Grab your calendar; look at how you can readjust in order to spend more time with Him and make Him a bigger priority. Also consider obtaining our book, “Quiet Time with the Lord” which will help you in creating a meaningful time each day with the Lord.

Journal Your Prayers

Continue to journal prayers to God. Rather than just taking notes like you might in a classroom setting, write your prayers to God, talking with Him, asking Him about Himself, telling Him about your feelings and thoughts. Then go back and read over what you’ve written. Consider ways God is convicting you to change. Identify new areas of doctrine you’d like to meditate on further.

Strengthen Your Meditation

Work your mind and your heart as you read and ponder God’s Word. Consider using an online Bible and do a word search that will enable you to read through all the verses displayed. Read them slowly. Ponder. See how some connect to what you are seeking to understand. Of course, ask God to guide you and provide you with wisdom. Ask Him to reveal more of Himself to you as well as show you how you can change and grow in your relationship with Him.

Focus on God in Your Bible

Have you tended to read the Bible merely as an instruction manual for life rather than as a book about God? Determine to read two to three familiar Bible stories and focus on God, rather than the plot or the people in the story. Ask yourself as you read, “What does this story tell me about who God is?” As you write down the characteristics of God that you find, do an online Bible word search and go deeper into who God is.

Ponder Your Relationship with God

Ask yourself the hard question, “How well do I know you, God?” Sit quietly for a good while and consider what kind of relationship you currently have with Him. Perhaps write your thoughts down to keep your mind organized. Then ask yourself a second question. “How can I know you better, God?” Write more thoughts down. Then take what you’ve written and do an online Bible search for some of the words that jump out for you. Ask God to reveal Himself to you in new ways as you read about Him in the Bible.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV)