One of the biggest problems that keep us from spending time with God is that we often have no clue what to do. That's why we quickly get distracted, bored and often don't even start doing something with Him. But there are so many different things you can do with Him. Having a list of what to do broadens our perspective, helps us stay focused and brings creativity into our time with Him. This fights boredom and distraction. As you start using this list for your inspiration, you might find that your daily time with Him is not long enough to really do everything you want to.

One way to significantly increase your time and pleasure with the written Word of God is to start praying it instead of merely reading it. Instead of reading it for information or to fulfill our bible reading plan assignments, we actually take it as God's personal word to us and use it to feed and guide our conversation with Jesus. We take the Word and pray it back to Him. Simply taken, it means having a conversation with God using His Word. This is called "pray-reading the Word", a technique I learned from Mike Bickle (IHOP-KC).