How to Create Spiritual Balance in Your Life

Experience God in His Word daily

• Read the Bible through in one year
• Speed read a book of the Bible
• Write scripture . . . and interact with God on the paper
• Repeat read a portion of scripture, every day for a week, slowly, thoughtfully
• Read a chapter expressively, i.e., Isaiah 53
• Memorize meaningful chapters
• Sing scripture songs
• Carry with you Bible promise cards on a ring, read while waiting
• Search the scriptures for the top 10 values by which to live
• Search Jesus’ life to learn how to minister to others

Pray daily

• At home, alone . . . and with your family
• Pray at work . . . in the halls, in the offices
• Find a prayer partner, pray often together
• Feel free to ask a co-worker for prayer
• When someone asks for prayer, pray right then
• Pray over your To Do List, for God’s priorities
• Pray over your project of the moment
• Pray scriptures
• Invite the Holy Spirit to dwell in your heart and to pray FOR you

Share a testimony daily  

When you spend time in God's Word and in prayer, you WILL have a testimony. It just happens.

• What God gave you in His Word today
• How God is changing you through His Word and His Spirit
• How God answered your prayer
• A need for which you would like prayer support, expressing trust and thanksgiving for God’s answer that will come
• Share with your family/kids, work associates, neighbors, seatmate on the airplane, anyone you spend time with
• Organize sharing partnerships, triads, small groups that meet during lunch to share your testimonies

So . . . if like Jonah you find yourself running away from God or you are simply drifting away or sinking in a sea of busy-ness, call out to God. Ask Him to bring you back to Him . . . back to where you will find true balance for your life!

Marti Schneider, March 2007, Women's Awareness Week worship at the General Conference