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This devotional is in two parts. It is recommended that you do each part at a different time, such as morning and evening.
Be Still 5:00
Art Prayer- Find an image or sculpture that draws you to God, or choose a Christian song.
- Tell Jesus you desire to meet with Him.
- Allow your mind to relax and your heart to open up to God.
- Allow God to communicate through the art. Allow your mind to be still and your heart open.
New Testament Reading 3:00
1 Peter 1:13-2:10Meditation 5:00
- Select one of the images in the passage: Prepare Your Mind for Action (vs. 1:13-18); Redeemed (vs. 1:19-21); Purified (1 Peter 1:22); Born Again (1 Peter 1:23); Men are like grass (1 Peter 1:24-25); Crave Spiritual Milk (1 Peter 2:1-3); the Living Stone (1 Peter 2:4-8); Chosen People (1 Peter 2:9-10)
- Visualize what is being said.
- What does it look like? What does it smell like? What do you feel? Do you taste anything?
- Try to see the event in as much detail as possible.
- In your imagination, move around the scene and interact with the objects and people.
- Does anyone talk with you? Do you want to ask anyone any questions?
- Imagine Jesus is talking only to you. What would He say to you?