Daily Quiet Time Tips for New Believers

I asked this question on social media last week: What one tip would you offer a new believer about starting a daily quiet time? [If you are not following The Spiritual Man Cave on social media, here’s your chance: Twitter / Facebook.]

Here are a couple of the answers I received – both had a similar theme:

“Get a book of short devotionals that has scripture readings with each daily devotion – something like Our Daily Bread,” said Pat Mingarelli with the Creation Speaks Project.

Our Daily Bread (ODB) was the first devotional book(let) I used when I became a Christian. ODB provides an audio version of each devotion that Christian radio stations run. That’s how I first learned about it. Now, you can go to the ODB website and either read or listen to the devotion whenever you want to.

One of the reasons it’s a great resource for new believers is because it starts with a real life anecdote that most of us can relate to. And then it makes a spiritual application. Those little life lessons tend to stick with you the rest of the day, and beyond.

Pastor and author Ron Benson also suggested starting small, but he expanded upon that by saying to tie the small start to an already established habit.

“A small start would be a read-through of the gospel of John, or an epistle like Ephesians. I wouldn’t, for instance, recommend a full-on read-through of the whole Bible. I’ve found that when I tie a new habit with an old habit, the new one falls into place much quicker. For instance, if you have a half-cup of coffee every morning before anything else, tie that coffee into a talk with God. Or if you shower every day, start having a quiet time ten minutes before your shower every day.”

Let’s keep this going in the comments. What one tip would you offer a new believer about starting a daily quiet time? Or maybe the better question is, what one tip have you offered a new believer about starting a daily quiet time that helped him or her?