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How To Use This Booklet

This booklet is arranged around the theme The God of All Comfort, and each week we will look at a different aspect of God’s comfort as it is revealed through Scripture. 

You are encouraged to set aside a specific and regular time each day to spend with the Lord. You will need a few things with you each day besides this booklet – a Bible, a pen, and perhaps a journal or notebook to record your thoughts – or you can write in the booklet itself. There are blank pages inserted after each week’s devotional thoughts where you can jot down notes. Plan for at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted time. If you have the opportunity for more, all the better.

 Every week, this booklet will guide you through a theme that correlates to the sermon text each Sunday in Advent. On each Monday, you will be guided through thoughts related to the passage used for that week’s sermon. The next three days you will look at Scriptures that help you focus on the three different comings of Christ into our world – past, future, and present.

 
On Fridays, you will be invited to interact with Scripture using a very ancient prayer practice called Lectio Divina – Latin for “divine reading.” This is a slow and contemplative way of praying God’s Word involving reading of a single passage, listening for the direction of the Holy Spirit, and meditating on how God is speaking to you. You will find instructions for this simple practice in the Friday entries. Finally, each Saturday, you will have the opportunity to reflect over the lessons and events of the previous week using a set of questions tailored to that week’s theme. This is a form of prayer and purposefulness modeled after another ancient prayer practice, called Examen.

 
There isn’t a specific “right” way to use this booklet. Let the Holy Spirit be your guide as you seek the God of All Comfort through the pages of His Word and these times apart with Him this Advent season.