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How you spend this time could change your life.1% OF YOUR DAY - 14 MINUTES AND 24 SECONDS
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Spend more time with Jesus this Lent.
Join the 1% Challenge and kick start a habit of prayer.Commit to spending 1% of your day- 15 minutes- in conversation with God through scripture.
15 minutes each day spent in God’s presence – reading, reflecting, responding and resting with his Word – adds up to 90 hours in one year.
That is time well spent, and a testimony to how a little at a time turns into something remarkable!
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Read Reflect Respond Rest
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Trust in these four basic components of the time-tested, saint-recommended,
ever-ancient, ever-new way of prayerfully reading Scripture: lectio divina.
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PREPARE
- Begin with the sign of the cross.
- Take a moment to be quiet and still.
- Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in this prayer time.
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Read
- Read a Scripture selection slowly and attentively.
- Note any word, phrase, or image that catches your attention.
- Consider reading more than once, and/or out loud.
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Reflect
- Think about the meaning of whatever caught your attention.
- Possibly imagine yourself in the scene.
- What is the Lord saying to you through this text?
- Are there any: promises to claim, commands to obey, examples to follow, errors to avoid, praises to sing…
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Respond
- Talk to God about the passage or anything else on your heart.
- Thank him for blessings received; Ask him for what you and others need.
- Note any changes or actions you are drawn to live out.
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Rest
- Spend a few minutes in restful silence with him.
- “Be still and know that I am God.” (Ps 46:11)
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The 1% Mark is used under license and with the permission of Evangelicial Catholic.
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