danekristjan
Puritan Board Freshman
Greetings brethren,
I was wondering what everyone's daily private worship (aka daily devotions) looks like. What time do you worship? How many times a day? Do you use prayer books? Do you read the scriptures only, or do you incorporate a daily devotional or theological work? Do you incorporate singing? If you are a minister does this look different than a layman?
I hope this thread is edifying for us all and possibly gives us all some ideas.
The ideal to which I myself aim in private worship (though this changes and is adapted from time to time, or based on the business of the day/week may look different) is as follows:
I follow a fairly strict liturgy I worked out for myself. In the morning I begin with reciting the Lord's Prayer in English, as well as whatever other languages I may be up to. Then I go through the morning prayer of the 1662 BCP. After this I pray through a section of Matthew Henry's "A Method for Prayer", and a prayer from "The Valley of Vision" (VOV). Then I move to free-form prayer. I then begin my reading from my English Bible. Lately, I have been trying to read no less then 15 chapters, but I always aim for more (this sounds super pious, but it is actually pretty quick since I read along while listening to an audio Bible at 2x speed). Then I pray through another section of Henry or VOV, read the daily psalms from the BCP and pray again. I then sing a psalm from the 1650 Psalter. After this I read a few chapters from my Greek testament. I pray again and then finish with a reading from a confession or some Puritan work I am up to.
I will add that I am a pastor, so I have more time and a greater duty to give much time to my own private worship.
What systems do you follow? Do you journal, study in-depth smaller chunks of Scripture? Read from sounds theological works?
Looking forward to hearing
I was wondering what everyone's daily private worship (aka daily devotions) looks like. What time do you worship? How many times a day? Do you use prayer books? Do you read the scriptures only, or do you incorporate a daily devotional or theological work? Do you incorporate singing? If you are a minister does this look different than a layman?
I hope this thread is edifying for us all and possibly gives us all some ideas.
The ideal to which I myself aim in private worship (though this changes and is adapted from time to time, or based on the business of the day/week may look different) is as follows:
I follow a fairly strict liturgy I worked out for myself. In the morning I begin with reciting the Lord's Prayer in English, as well as whatever other languages I may be up to. Then I go through the morning prayer of the 1662 BCP. After this I pray through a section of Matthew Henry's "A Method for Prayer", and a prayer from "The Valley of Vision" (VOV). Then I move to free-form prayer. I then begin my reading from my English Bible. Lately, I have been trying to read no less then 15 chapters, but I always aim for more (this sounds super pious, but it is actually pretty quick since I read along while listening to an audio Bible at 2x speed). Then I pray through another section of Henry or VOV, read the daily psalms from the BCP and pray again. I then sing a psalm from the 1650 Psalter. After this I read a few chapters from my Greek testament. I pray again and then finish with a reading from a confession or some Puritan work I am up to.
I will add that I am a pastor, so I have more time and a greater duty to give much time to my own private worship.
What systems do you follow? Do you journal, study in-depth smaller chunks of Scripture? Read from sounds theological works?
Looking forward to hearing