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January 14, 2020 - January 13, 2021
Your brain has limited short-term storage.
too much
too many choices,
too much multi...
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capturing your ideas.
find a way to remember them.
you do more than just record a fleeting thought. You also free your mind from worry that you’ll forget that thought.
capturing ideas indicates faithfulness in the small things.
entrusted
captu...
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pool of information
The point is for you to have a system to take notes or record ideas as God gives them to you.
4-part devotional series based on one scripture verse.
mapped out the series,
That study time opened up four different slants on the same verse. Each slant was unique.
raw material from the four different translations and ideas about how to communicate a separate concept from each one.
review those notes every few days to look for patterns. As you review, look for ideas for devotionals.
interesting twists that relate to events in your life. You can even create a special code or
download a Bible application — one that allows you to take notes.
Does one particular phrase stick in your mind? What is the concept and how does it speak to God’s movement in your life?
good writers capture ideas. You simply need to find out the best ways to capture yours. (It may be a notebook or it may not.)
purposefully
Do I use ideas from my system to write devotionals?
you need to find a way to capture the ideas God gives you.
connect the dots between what you see and how God shows Himself in what you see.
You need to process what God gives you before you start writing about it.
He had to process what he was hearing in order to understand how God was in what he was hearing.
He mistook the voice for Eli, never thinking that it might be God.
Then you connect the dots.
You may immediately recognize the “God connection” in those experiences.
Eli didn’t connect the dots for Samuel. He helped Samuel know how to connect the dots.
As you review an idea, bring it before God and ask Him to show you any connection that He wants you to see.
You invite God to direct the process of sorting.
discard,
hold
process righ...
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“red light”
“yellow light”
“green ...
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your approach is not scriptural.
clichéd approach to a well-worn topic.
you are not to be the one to write about
“Wait. Proceed with caution.”
invest your time and energy
Where do you want me to invest my time this month of January 2021
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green light means it is time to wrestle for the connection.
Now is the time. NEW - trust Me with the when / where
Why does the time appear to drag? Because I want the light to change according to my schedule.
What do you want me to WRITE TODAY
so, then I may mistakenly pursue red light or yellow light ideas. Those ideas won’t be sticky. God’s revelation is not on any particular
connection between an observation and a biblical truth — may come quickly, in the form of an “Ah ha!” moment.
The green light ideas are the stickiest because they are given to you on God’s timetable and pass the muster of readiness.
The Time Is Now.
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