AN INSANELY PRACTICAL STEP-BY-STEP DISCIPLESHIP WORKBOOK THAT WILL LEAD YOU INTO THE DEEP, INTIMATE, AND ENJOYABLE FRIENDSHIP WITH JESUS YOU WERE ALWAYS MEANT TO HAVE!
Designed for 1-on-1 discipleship, church discipleship programs, small groups, and friends growing in prayer together (also works for individuals), Going Deeper is a 40-week discipleship workbook series (part 1 and part 2) that will take you on practical, step-by-step journey into a deeper experience of God through prayer and the Bible.
Whether you're brand new to prayer or have depth in prayer, every part of the curriculum is personalized to fit where you're at in your walk with Jesus and what you want to focus on in growing spiritually.
The workbook is comprehensive with:
-weekly chapter readings
-personalized practical prayer assignments that flesh out what a deeper prayer life looks like
-detailed discussion guides to use every 2 weeks that focus on chapter content and prayer life accountability
-optional video course with teaching and demonstration videos that follow the book content (www.prayerdiscipleship.com).
With over 17 years of experience in full-time prayer ministry, pastoring, and discipleship, author Jeff Mootz offers a wealth of experience, necessary tools, and biblical understanding that will help you cultivate a deep friendship with God.
1. Understand your worth to God as His image-bearer
2. Come into the biblical perspective that God is infinitely joyful and enjoys you
3. Experience new depths of friendship with Jesus
4. Learn and practice enjoyable ways of connecting to Jesus in prayer and the Bible
5. Overcome boring, distracted prayer, and experience fascination and satisfaction in God
6. Transform your thoughts and emotions as you connect to God’s heart for you
7. Identify and break out of patterns of sin, lies and negative emotions
8. Receive clarity on how to organize your prayer and Bible times and stay consistent in them
9. Be equipped to confidently disciple others into an intimate prayer lifestyle
10. Practice a relational accountability model you can use with future small groups
Book #1 is divided into 4 Modules (4-8 weeks long)
-Spiritual Planning (prayer and Bible schedule, prayer list)
-Friendship with God
-Bible Meditation
-Praying in the Spirit
Going Deeper is insanely practical, entirely focused on how to connect with God in prayer and the Bible rather than just theology, and applicable to your daily prayer life each week. There are also discussion guides every other chapter if two people want to discuss the content and their prayer assignments.
I'm confident readers will have their relationship with God impacted in a profound way with each chapter.
Out of the 4 Modules in this workbook, Bible Meditation is my favorite. There are 8 chapters on practical ways to grow in enjoyable meditation, plus meditation assignments that help you process how God may be whispering to your heart in your prayer times.
“In my past, meditation only meant focusing my mind on Bible verses while being in solitude, silence, and stillness. While I still believe in silence and stillness, I’ve broadened my understanding of how to meditate and become more specific in its purpose. My working definition of meditation is that it’s a focused and persistent searching of an area of God’s Personality through deep conversation over His Word.
In meditation, we search out one area of God’s heart at a time by praying through single words until the Spirit brings us into an experience in the truth. It is focused and persistent in the sense that we focus on one idea about God, one word in a verse, and we dialogue with Him long-term until we experience Him. For example, we take a Bible verse, and we lock into it for weeks or months, and say, “God, I want to explore this area of Your personality. I want to discover it. I want to be on a treasure hunt with this one thing specifically, and I’m not going to stop until I meet You in powerful ways.”
Meditation is about exploring, experiencing, and enjoying God in His Word. It is way more than just a spiritual discipline; it’s about going on a fascinating exploration of His heart. We meditate to explore an aspect of God in a precise and focused way. His personality is a vast ocean of beauty and love that we will search out for billions of years. Through meditation, we enter into a slow exploration of that endless beauty.”
Excerpt From (chapter 9: Biblical Meditation)
Going Deeper: 40-Week Discipleship Guide to Encountering Jesus - Part 1
Jeff Mootz
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