Worshiping, learning, and growing closer to the Lord is not a “one size fits all” journey. If you want to pray on the toilet, great! If you want to read the Bible, wonderful! If you want to listen to worship music, fantastic! If you want to listen to a devotional online, amazing! If you want to mix and match and not stick with one particular plan, I say “good for you!”

When I first became a Christian, I felt like I had to pick something and stick with it until I finished. My academic knowledge of God may have been progressing but I feel being this strict slowed down the development of my personal relationship with God.

Once I realized I was the only one who cared whether or not I read my daily devotional on the actual date that I was supposed to, stuck with my Bible reading plan, etc. it gave me the confidence to let go and just spend my time with God in the way I felt like. Jesus died so we can be free and that includes the freedom in spending time with Him based on how we feel in the moment.

So now rather than my time with God feeling more like a to-do item on my checklist, I feel like I have a menu full of mouth watering options where each item is more delicious than the next… The best thing about this restaurant is it is all you can eat and is open 365/24. It is just up to you if you want to enter it. 

To help you with your menu planning, I have created a few different styles of FREE printables and listed some of my favorite ways to spend time with God to help you get started! 

1. Sing worship music!

2. Check out devotionals from the library (audio books and ebooks are also options)!

3. Find Bible related shows or movies to watch from places like your favorite online streaming service or the library.

4. Try Bible journaling - it can be as simple or complicated as you want to make it.

5. Meditate or memorize Bible verses by lettering them in different font styles.

6. Walk around outside and appreciate God’s creation.

7. Look for worship songs on places like YouTube or Spotify.

8. Google coloring pages of scripture and other Bible themed topics.You can print them and color them or if you prefer, you can color them digitally by using different apps like Tayasui Sketches.

9. Work out the bod and the mind the Lord gave you - I like to google “Christian workout” and include the type of exercise I feel like doing such as dance or yoga.

Feel free to share some of your favorite ways to spend time with God!

Lyrics

Lord I want more of You
Living water rain down on me
Lord I need more of You
Living breath of life come fill me

Lord I want more of You
Living water rain down on me
Lord I need more of You
Living breath of life come fill me up
(Let's sing we are hungry)

We are hungry, we are hungry
We are hungry for more of You
We are thirsty, oh Jesus
We are thirsty for more of You

Lord I want more of You (Holy Spirit)
Holy Spirit rain down on me
Lord I need more of You
Living breath of life come fill me up

We are hungry, we are hungry
We are hungry for more of You
We are thirsty, oh Jesus
We are thirsty for more of You

We lift our holy hands up
We want to touch You
We lift our voices higher
And higher and higher to You
(Sing it again, let it be a cry)

We lift our holy hands up
We want to touch You
We lift our voices higher
Higher, higher to You

We lift You high, we lift You high
Be glorified, we lift You high
Oh, we lift You high

I will not be silent
I will be quiet anymore
I will not be silent
I will not, I will not

I will raise my voice
I will raise my voice, I will raise my voice
To You, to You
I will lift my hands
I will lift my life
To give You glory

We lift You high, we lift You high
We lift You high, higher
We lift You high, we lift You high
Be glorified, be glorified
We lift You high, we lift You high
We lift You high, we lift You high
We lift You high, we lift You high
We lift You high, be glorified

And I will not be silent
I will not be quiet anymore
I will not be silent
(Lift up a shout of praise)