Enjoying Perfect Communion With God

How to Start

Decide on a specific amount of time. As a starting point, set as a goal to practice learning to wait 20 minutes 5 times a week and 2 hours twice a week. Set a separate time apart from study, prayer or healing.

Time of day.

There seems to be something particularly effective to waiting on the Lord in the mornings. Ask the Lord when the best time for you is; start with something that makes sense to you, then give the Lord an opportunity to revise to fit His requirements.

Location.

Pick a place that is comfortable yet not conducive to falling asleep. You’ll also want to make sure there are not a lot of distractions, whether visual, mental or audible. You may want to set up a particular location for this purpose; this may contribute to your ability to get into a mindset that is attentive to the Lord.

What Do You Do?

The act of waiting is providing the Lord with the opportunity to do His work IN you with as little interference FROM you as possible. To do this, your focus will be to let the Lord bring your mind, will and emotions into focused submission to Him. This will not be accomplished by your own efforts; you are simply making yourself available.

Focus

First, get comfortable in a quiet, undisturbed setting. If you only have a limited amount of time, be able to see a clock easily from where you are sitting. As you close your eyes, think of closing the door to outside distractions. When I first started this I would announce, “Lord, I’m here for you” to set the purpose of my time. When my mind began to wander I would repeat the phrase to myself as a way to gently bring my thoughts back to their focus on the Lord.

Your mind WILL wander! The odds are that for most of your life you have let your thoughts and emotions go wherever they wanted. Now we are learning to free our soul to be joined to our spirit, which is already joined to Holy Spirit.