Our Daily Prayer

 Saint-Petersburg orthodox theological academy 

Our daily devotion is a time to tune our hearts to God's heart, so that we might resonate with the vibration of heaven.

Create your own devotional prayers and allow them to grow and morph as you do. As a Franciscan, I use the Daily Office as my springboard. Sometimes I begin with sitting prayer (mindfulness, contemplation) and sometimes with the prayers and readings then moving into contemplation.

The key is to shift into your spirit before you begin. 

The time spent and complexity isn't the important thing here. Coming into God's presence is. (As God is spirit, getting out of our soul-centered head into our spirit is huge. We are designed for our spirit to be front and center, while our fallen nature puts our soul front and center. Our heart or our breathing are the two best ways to center ourselves into our spirit.)

In our repetition or learning by heart, we tune our subconscious as well as our consciousness. We're hardwiring it in.  So, repeat the verses and prayers that awaken your heart. Rewrite them til they are yours. This is the form part that grows and changes with us. Substance is our communion with God, and that's eternal.

The spirituality of transformation is restoration

This brings restoration back into our lives. Restoration is the gaining back God's original intent. It's getting back what we lost at the Fall, wholeness, belonging and fellowship. But more than that, it's coming into the abiding, creative, abundant life of Jesus, as we co dwell and learn to live out of our spirit in Him.

Our restoration is the process of tuning our hearts with God's heart so that like a tuning fork, our lives resonate with the vibration and presence of God. We bear Christ.

Here's a form: Invitational - Prayer
                        Instructional - Confession
                        Meditation - Focus on what God's Quickening, Awakening within you. What is the                                                    touchstone of change and transformation in your life?
                        Contemplation - Stillness, Worship, Sitting as with an old friend, bathing in His                                                                Presence, resting in the arms of your Father - whole and complete.

Restoration is the process of removing each and every disconnect, one by one, by healing the flow of God in our hearts, our lives and our relationships. And all eternal change begins in the Presence of God.