Cultivating Habits Of GraceSample

Day 5: Recap

Next steps:

Before moving on from this short study, capture a few, simple resolves for cultivating your own habits of grace:

Word: The best way to learn to the read Bible is to read the Bible. Find a regular place and time, and amount of time, that is realistic and life-giving for you. Start there. Don’t bite off too much at once. Aim for a doable habit that adds up over time. (Consider not only reading, but answering questions through study, and feeling the truth in your heart through meditation.)

Prayer: It is an utterly remarkable thing to “have God’s ear” because of Christ. We should not think of prayer mainly as an obligation, but an opportunity. Consider the opportunity of having God’s ear, and identify just one fresh habit to cultivate as a result of this study, whether it’s a strategy for private prayer, prayer on the go throughout life, or praying with others.

Fellowship: Evaluate your relationships. Who in your life is clearly a means of God’s grace for your spiritual health and reenergizing? Would anyone else say the same of you? Are you a means of his grace in the lives of others? Make one fresh resolve related to fellowship, whether it’s to become a covenant member of your local church or to prioritize a particular relationship for gospel intentionality.

About the Book

Hear his voice. Have his ear. Belong to his body.

Three seemingly unremarkable principles shape and strengthen the Christian life: listening to God’s voice, speaking to him in prayer, and joining together with his people as the church. Though seemingly normal and routine, the everyday “habits of grace” we cultivate give us access to these God-designed channels through which his love and power flow—including the greatest joy of all: knowing and enjoying Jesus.

In Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines  and the companion workbook for individual or group study, David Mathis helps us to discover simple ways to cultivate habits of grace that empower us for the Christian life by connecting us to God's abundant grace.