Delighting In Spiritual Disciplines | Respond

Tiffani Long | Respond Women’s Retreat

In this session, Tiffani Long talks about what it means to grow closer to God through delighting in spiritual disciplines, like reading the Bible, praying, and memorizing Scripture. These aren’t just rules to follow—they’re opportunities to hear from God and enjoy time with Him.

She shares how it’s easy to rush through these habits or do them to check a box, and how she’s learning to slow down and truly delight in spending time with the Lord. Tiffani helps us see the difference between a discipline that feels like a chore and one that brings joy.

This session offers simple, practical ways to stay consistent, fight distractions, and make time with God a natural part of everyday life. It’s about shifting from routine to relationship—learning to truly enjoy time with the Lord, knowing that the more we’re with him, the more we’ll love him.

• Proverbs 2:1-5
• Romans 15:4
• Colossians 3:16
• James 5:16
• Philippians 4:6
• Deuteronomy 6:6-7
• John 1:8
• Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin
• Praying the Bible by Donald Whitney

Transcript: Delighting In Spiritual Disciplines

All right, how’s everybody doing? I was sitting in the back while Caitlin was teaching and I was thinking, if Caitlin is the like sweetest, fluffiest lapdog of women, I am the English bulldog coming over here next, I was an educator for years, before I quit to be at home with my babies, so I am already loud without a microphone and Caitlin’s volume button stays. So, I always feel obnoxiously loud anyway, but as you all are just making your way in finding a seat, I just want to introduce myself, it you’ve been to camp anytime in the last five years, you’ve probably seen me around, my name is Tiffany Long, I’m the hospitality manager here. I’m full time staff at Snowbird and you’ve probably seen me in all manner of areas, doing any manner of things, but so yeah, I’ve been here for five years, I have two children. I’m an almost empty nester, so you all can feel sorry for me, or be happy for me, I don’t know which. Some days it’s one or the other, but I’ve been married for 27 years and my son is 24, he is married to Erin and my daughter’s 20 she’s here somewhere, shout out to her and she graduates from college in two weeks.

So, you’re going to hear me say a lot today that this isn’t exhaustive, breakout sessions are intended to be a shorter amount of time that packs a punch, so to speak and give a smart overview in a smaller amount of time. So, when we’re covering these topics, know that there is, it’s like, think of like the tip of the iceberg and you’ve got all the rest of it underneath that, we want to send you away with the heart to dig into each of the things that we’re sharing with you, I want to give a slight introduction before we actually do the real introduction to what are spiritual disciplines. They are intentional practices found in scripture that promotes spiritual growth and habits in the lives of believers and these habits have been practiced by God’s people since biblical times. So, if you came here today and you’re like, I don’t even really know what spiritual discipline is. That’s okay, it you came here today and you’re like, I struggle in that’s okay. So, there’s a list on the screen of some spiritual disciplines that we practice as believers, Bible reading and study, prayer, scripture, memory, meditation, fasting, fellowship, worship, service, evangelism. Again, there are more than that, but I chose to focus on the first three for our session today, Bible reading and study, prayer and scripture memory, because I believe that they are.

The foundation of our relationship with the Lord and most important that those are the most important ways for us to hear from the Lord in a daily, consistent way. A lot of the other disciplines are overflows of the first three, for example, I can’t practice meditating on the word if I’m not in the word. So, now let’s look at the title of our breakout again. You’ll see two words that typically aren’t used together. Can you think of what might they be? Yes, discipline and delight. So, I’m going to read two definitions and I want you to think like what your body and mind feels like when I say each of these, how you respond to them, first discipline, by definition, is the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior that bristle you a little bit like training to obey a code of behavior can elicit somewhat of a negative response and then, our flesh certainly does not like discipline. Delight, by definition, is great pleasure, satisfaction or happiness and I’m smiling just thinking about those three things. So, we’ll see today how we are commanded to study God’s word, pray and memorize scripture, but we are also commanded to delight in those practices as well.

I began contemplating this idea of discipline and delight together through spending time with women just like you in discipleship circles, Bible study groups, coffee conversations, that when we’re talking about our intimacy and our fellowship with the Lord, I was hearing things like, I just haven’t picked up my Bible in a while, it’s been a long time since I’ve just really had any prayer time, I just feel like my time with the Lord is just a check box, it’s just a list, I just want to get it done, get it over with. Do those things sound familiar sometimes? Yeah, but also out of my own conviction about my time with these practices feeling rushed or hurried, I wanted to do them, but I wanted to do them to get it done and to be able to go on to the next part of my day or the next thing I wasn’t really meditating and sitting and really allowing the Lord to speak to me because I was happy to be with him, but I really just was trying to get it over with quickly. So, my goal today is for us to walk away with a broader understanding of what is expected of us and how to respond, but also to walk away with practical, helpful things for us to learn what it means to practice discipline and delight. So, we’re going to go straight to God’s word to see what he says about these spiritual disciplines, now for the sake of time, I’m only going to read.

A couple of verses for each discipline and that was one of the hardest things, my husband helped me, I was like, can you just read the verses so I can type them out and it ended up being like, over 30 scripture and it is valid and worthy, but I was like, I have a time frame, so for the sake of time, I’m reading two biblical commands for each discipline. So, we’re going to start with biblical commands for Bible study and reading. The first is Romans 15:4 for whatever was written in former days, was written for our instruction that through endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures, we might have hope and then, the second is Colossians, which we’re camping out here for this weekend. Colossians 3:16, let the word of Christ dwell in you, richly teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God and the next, we’re going to do these all at one time, so that we can see how they marry together. The next are biblical commands for prayer. James 5:16, therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power, as it is working and then, Philippians 4:6, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and then, lastly.

Biblical commands for scripture, memorization, Deuteronomy 6:6 -7 these words that I command you today shall be on your heart, you shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise, John 1:8 the book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night,, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. So, we can see very clearly, even in a few verses, the commands of the Lord and so, why are we struggling to be consistent and obedient, as Caitlin said, not living faithfully in the now, why are we struggling for that? Because, these ladies, they’re not optional, nowhere, in anything that we just read said, if you have time to write these words on your heart, that will be so good for you and nowhere did it say, if you want to do that, if you want to not be anxious about anything, if you remember to do that, that will be helpful. They are commands and a command are an implied action for us to do and that’s what God is speaking to us and giving us these direct commands in his word, they’re holy commands from a holy God to his precious people, he wants to commune and fellowship. These aren’t commands simply for obedience.

They’re commands, so that he can reveal himself to us and deepen our understanding of who he is and the sweetest part about these commands and us learning to delight is that delight is mutual. John Piper says God rejoices in our thinking and feeling and doing what is right, we mean that he delights in our seeing, savoring and showing his own supreme value. God values our valuing him. God delights in our delighting in him. So, that’s where the basis of all of this came from was okay. I’ve had my own struggle. I’m hearing this as women that were struggling with this idea of practicing spiritual disciplines. So, I got to thinking about when you began dating your spouse, or maybe someone new came to your women’s group and you’re like, I really want to get to know her or even when your children, when my children, come home, I still cannot wait to see them. I’m delighted to see them. So, we have an initial encounter with someone and our hearts are tendered toward that person, whether that results in marriage or just a sweet friendship. After that initial encounter, the coffee dates, the play dates. Oftentimes we say, I love that person, I want to get to know them more because, we had that initial encounter and then, our hearts are like, that was so fun, let’s do that again, but the opposite approach is that when we do have intentional time with people, we do love them more.

We never exhaust knowing our friends, our kids are our spouses and the more time that we spend with those people, the more we know them and the more we love them and that’s how we have to feel about our approach to these spiritual disciplines. They’re the coffee dates and play dates and intentional time that we’re spending with other people that we’re not willing to invest in our relationship with a holy creator. So, I’m challenging us here today to fill that about spending time within knowing God and the practical way to do that is through these practices. So, knowing that fellowship brings closeness and intimacy. Why do we feel so much resistance practicing these disciplines? Well, first, I think last night, Anna Rose did an amazing job in her session that she mentioned we were talking about the supremacy of Christ in our passage, in Colossians and even last night, the Lord was just continuing to work through my own session here and just connecting the dots for all of these and we don’t all sit down and plan together as women, because who has time for that, but the way that the Lord has made the connections through each session and we’re hearing each other’s. We’re hearing things for the first time and we’re like, oh my goodness, I’m touching on that too, but with Anna Roses last night.

She mentioned the supremacy of Christ and how we want to be supreme over our own lives and dictate our own choices and we have to allow him to reign and for our will to be in line with his. So, that must be in place. So, I think that’s our primary issue with I don’t want to do that, I want to make my own choices and I want to decide what’s best for me and we’re not allowing that supremacy of Christ, but I wanted to know specifically what women would say their hindrances were to practicing these spiritual disciplines. So, I used a very scientific data known as Google survey, but I will tell you that the results were truly sobering and eye opening. So, I ended up surveying around 40 women, completely anonymous, who all profess faith in Christ. The youngest believer had been following the Lord about a year and the oldest had followed the Lord for 63 years. That’s quite the lengthy faithfulness. So, it ended up like I said, it was about 40 women. 35 responses stated that they had gone anywhere from a few weeks to years without reading or studying the word. Only five mentioned practicing regular, intentional times of Bible study or Bible reading daily and consistently and so, within that question, I asked, what are the reason for not having consistent time and so, I gave some options and allowed them.

To write their own answers so, I’m going to share the top three. The first one, distraction and I got to thinking about how that plays in the way that we intake and gather information in today’s world is not very conducive to us being a Proverbs 2:1 – 5 believer and that passage says, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding, yes, if you call out for insight, raise your voice for understanding, it you seek it like silver and search for it as hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. That was hefty, wasn’t it? But, our attention spans are changed because information is a click away and our ability to do something longer than just a few minutes is waning, think about I can have a recipe, directions to the store and a cart made and purchased all within a few minutes and of course, quick clicks can be helpful in a lot of situations, I would have given anything if there was Walmart pickup or Kroger click list when my kids were babies, but we were just making everybody else’s grocery experience miserable. So, but so some quick clicks are helpful in situations, but that cannot be our approach to Bible study and distraction is, every age every day issue. So, a lot of times we talk about attention spans and phones and things like that with that younger generation, but it’s an everyday, every age issue. So, what that helps me to think and see is young moms like, there’s never going to be a time when we’re not distracted and a lot of times, the enemy likes to keep us in this belief that, you’re going to have more time one day, young moms, you’re thinking, oh, I’m going to have more time, I won’t be distracted when I have empty nest. Yes, you will, because I’m fighting every day to be in the word and to memorize scripture and to spend intentional time praying, college students I’ll have more time when I’m not in school anymore, I won’t be so distracted. Yes, you will, because when we exit one season of life and enter into another, the enemy doesn’t care in all of those things, he’s just going to find a new way, a new way to present information to us and to keep us locked in away from these disciplines. So, how do we battle distraction? We could list 100 things. The most obvious, put down your phone, but the word that the Lord kept giving me my thoughts was fight and then, again, these connections that the Lord just keeps doing are so awesome because Amy gave that picture of like going to war and what that looks like, like the Patriot or something. It was so encouraging, because I thought, yes, women, mamas, seniors, college students, single women, married women, fight for time, meaningful time. So, when I think about being fit for battle.

There are numerous scriptures, I don’t have any time to go over what that looks like, but think about or the actual references, but what it looks like is, how many times do we hear, ready yourself for battle, put on the whole armor of God, victory, perseverance and God doesn’t use imagery and metaphor carelessly. So, if he says it, we better listen. he isn’t giving us a pretty picture to say, oh, that’s good. he means you’re going to need it so, fight. So, that was the first reason. Was distraction. The second answer, most said, was apathy, just I don’t want to do it, it feels boring, I have no desire to do that, I want to do other things and motivation is a huge component, because our flesh hates discipline, whether that’s deciding how to be healthy through diet and exercise, or learning a new skill, we just want an easy mindset and the world is perpetuating that. The world is perpetuating an easy mindset. My husband I were watching a commercial came on the other day and it was for an automated app, controlled lawnmower. So, we’re not even cutting our own grass anymore and it was shocking to me and so, we like to be entertained, we are so easily bored and that means that our motivation is driven by our emotions and how we feel. So, I don’t want to do it because I don’t feel like it. I’m really tired today.

I don’t feel like it. So, our motivation is driven by our emotions instead of our obedience, we do it because we’re commanded what we read earlier through those commands or these practices, we’re commanded to do it, so we’re committed. That means we’re commanded to be obedient, whether we want to, whether we feel like it and we have to push against what the world says, like it should be easy and sometimes, ladies even Bible study, I’m a fan of, hard core books, I don’t like a Kindle, I want to research, we don’t even want to research anymore in our phones and things make it easy and I want to encourage you use your digital things as little as possible when you’re spending time with the Lord, that temptation to flip back to the next thing or that text message comes through, it’s just an immediate hit for our distraction. So, how do we battle that lack and that apathetic feeling? We battle it with praise. Psalm 34:1 says, I will praise the Lord at all times, his praise will always be on my lips. So, according to that verse, that doesn’t sound situational to me, does it to you? That doesn’t sound like you know, I had the best day, I got up on time, I had my time with the Lord at precisely at six a.m. and I did all the things I’m feeling good. I’m going to get out my scripture memory cards tonight that it’s not situational, it says all times always be on my lips. So, that’s in joy, in sorrow, in busyness, in plenty, in lack.

We have to do it in those times too and then, the last answer on the survey was skill, I don’t know how to do it, I want to practice these disciplines and maybe that desire is there, but I don’t know how and I don’t know where or what and that’s so valid. That’s the reason that we had a workshop option for today, because we want people to have the knowledge to do these things that we’re telling you and sharing with you. So, how do we battle inability? We battle that through humility. James 4:10 says, humble yourselves before the Lord and he will lift you up in honor. So, we have to admit, we have to humbly say, I don’t know how to do this and there are plenty of us, guess what, it’s okay to be a long-standing believer and ask for help. A lot of us didn’t grow up in circles where expositional preaching and teaching were even a thing, or for us to be studier than presenters of these things, that was for the pastor and for somebody way smarter than me. So, we didn’t grow up in those circles and so, it’s okay women, if we’ve been following the Lord 10 years or 20 years or 42 years, to say, you know what, I want to know more about that. So, first humbly, confess that to the Lord to say, I want to know how to do this. Lord, I want to know more about you, I desire, but I don’t have the skill and then, secondly.

To ask a trust, friend, these women that you’re here with, whether someone may be younger than you in their faith, but it’s okay that they have more skill than you and a lot of times, we don’t want to humble ourselves as someone who’s walked with the Lord for 20 years, because we think and what younger women should look up to us, but it’s okay to say, you know what, I don’t could you actually help me do that, could you show me, 20 year old how you do your interpretation and your observation? So, don’t be afraid to ask for help. A great resource that’s going to be on the handout is called Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin. Anybody read it or it’s amazing, that’s what they’re using for the basis of our workshop. So, that’s where we are in Bible study and reading. Next for prayer and for scripture memory, I just want to go through what I asked on the survey. What are hindrances to your prayer life? Again, these responses were all anonymous, but I’m just going to read a few of these to you. Distraction, putting other things first. This is for prayer, specifically. Attempting to do things in my own strength. Sometimes I know it will take a while, so I don’t do it. Laziness, busyness, I forget, it’s an option, I think God doesn’t want to listen to me, not wanting to submit, feeling rushed, lack of desire, my phone.

Comfort habits, most often my time feels like a checklist, feeling unworthy of bringing my issues to him, not really knowing How to expand a prayer past a couple minutes, just let that sink in for a second. That’s all of us, that’s not strangers on the street that don’t know the Lord. That’s the women in your circles, in your Bible studies that are all in here with us today, scripture memory. What are your hindrances to memorizing scripture? Overwhelmed with what to memorize, I forget about it, just lazy, choosing to do other things more important, I’ll do it for a while, then forget and stop, I feel like, since I have the word with me most of the time, I don’t need to memorize it. No one pushes or encourages it. My mind is not what it used to be. That’s valid. Don’t know a method, school, I don’t make time for it, not committing to it, no accountability. So, again, hearing those things, we could sit here and feel really discouraged, because this is us and we’re out here smiling and doing all these things, but internally, we’re having a conflict with spiritual disciplines and what I want to think about as we’re sitting here is to not be discouraged by these responses, but let them be a motivator, let them push us to the fight and push us to think differently. So, we’ve talked about this sort of struggle, so let’s move into the success.

So, how are we going to delight in spiritual disciplines?  Well, first of all, we need to do a rebrand. Rebranding, if you ever seen like, oh, Dunkin Donuts has a new logo. Rebranding doesn’t change the company. You’re still going to get your really cruddy coffee or maybe your favorite donut, whatever, but rebranding doesn’t change a company, it really changes how the company is perceived. That’s the same cup of coffee that you had four weeks ago before they had their new logo and new tables and new mission statement, it changes how the company is perceived and so, with that in mind, I want us to think through this lens of delight and how that’s going to be our rebrand, is to go I’m coming at this with like drudgery, I need to get my Bible out, I haven’t done it today. I’m tired and we’re never going it like I am tired, but I get to get my Bible out and still fellowship with the Lord. So, let’s look at our biblical commands to delight. Psalm 1:1 and 2 said, blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law, he meditates it day and night. Jeremiah 15:16 says, your words were found and I ate them. Your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name.

Oh Lord, God of. Ghosts. Psalm 37:4 delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart and lastly, Psalm 112:1 praise the Lord, blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments and again, that was four or five verses, that is not the entirety of scripture where we are commanded joy, dancing, delighting, singing before the Lord. So, how do we marry discipline and delight, where are my planners, wo loves to plan, plan things out? One of the number one way that we can marry discipline and delight is to plan ahead, we easily plan things in our lives all the time, don’t we? We plan for meals, we plan our work schedule, our work responsibilities, we plan around sports schedules, we plan hey, you want to get together those going back to like, getting to know someone and being knowing them deeper and more fully because we spend time with them, those coffee dates didn’t make themselves, you have to make that effort and so, we’re planning that. Would you like to get coffee this week, let’s have some friends over for dinner? So, why don’t we make that effort with the Lord? Obviously, a morning set time is wonderfully ideal, certainly our goal, but the reality is, no two days are the same, think about what we’re all doing as women. No matter what season you’re in, but by planning ahead and looking at our week, we can say things like.

Tuesday is super busy, so I know for sure I’m going to have to make that my early morning to spend time with Jesus, to pray, to meditate on his word. Wednesday after dinner is completely open so, I’m going to mark this time off for prayer, maybe one day of the week, maybe on Thursday, you’ve got an open lunchtime. So, I’m going to take my scripture memory cards or notebook and I’m going to flip through that, just while I’m sitting at my desk eating lunch, or I’m sitting in the workroom, break room eating lunch. We don’t have to fit every one of these practices and disciplines into one block of time and if we can shed that very rigid view of okay, this is my block of time, I cannot change it, if we can shed that and start looking at our entire day as minutes to be with the Lord, but if we now, let me say this, don’t let your pendulum swing the other way as well. We’re like, God now I got to plan my time with Jesus, how am I going to get… You can we’re a mindful approach to planning out those things, versus over planning and not becoming now a burden to you, but if we leave our walk with the Lord up to the fate of the day, then it’s never going to happen. So, if we wake up and we’re like, well, I’m not, hopefully I’ll get some time with Jesus today, maybe, well, I didn’t really get up early, but maybe after school.

Then day and day and that’s where those gaps happened, that these women were sharing with me on that survey. So, if we’re going to be plant planners, we want to be flexible, because we might oversleep, but what do we do? Well, that’s not that time’s gone, I can’t do that. I’m not going to have any time today, be flexible. Regroup as needed. Don’t dismiss a whole chunk of time with the Lord, just because you slept through your alarm, or maybe you were going to do it at lunch. In the lunch meeting, you ended up having a lunch meeting, your kid woke up early from their nap and you were going to do it then, be flexible, which leads me to number four, grab the minutes. Obviously, our goal is that daily, consistent, intentional time with the Lord, practicing our disciplines. This is where the shift really happened for me because, what I started doing was I got in my car to go to Murphy, which, if you’ve ever I don’t know which direction you guys come, but it’s about 20-ish minutes, I started using that as my prayer time, because I was my phone’s not near me. I’m forced to be still and undistracted and I started using, that time in the car with the Lord for prayer and it became, the more I did it, the more I desired to do it and my car became my prayer closet, it didn’t matter if it was my little two-minute commute to work from my house.

I’d be like, lord, thank you, I just praised him for two minutes and then, I was like, gosh, I am enjoying that. So, where are other minutes in my day that I’m wasting and go like, well, I don’t really have 30 minutes, or don’t have an hour for prayer, I have two minutes, so use it and just thinking mindfully of that, I began to trade those mindless things for intentional things that are disciplines in practice and my delight increased as my time increased. So, one of the biggest things that will help us practice these disciplines is accountability that’s going to help us be successful, we heard from the panel today. Wasn’t that panel awesome? So, much about community and having someone asking you, tell me about your time in the word and I want to point out just a difference in that question. What did I say? Tell me about your time in the word. Did I ask, how was your time in the word, why do you think the difference is between Tell me about your time in the word and how is your time in the word? Because, if I ask you, how is your time in the word, you could say, good, you could say, it’s been pretty good, okay you’re going to give me that one-word answer that might not truly be accurate, but if I say, tell me about your time in the word, you can’t say good. So, you’re going to oh. So, that helps hold each other accountable, say oh, I know Tiffany’s going to ask me, tell me about my time in the word.

I need to have something to say, but it’ll give way more depth to our conversations and accountability. Have a scripture memory partner. Have a prayer partner. You can even, it doesn’t have to be like, now I got to plan a time to get either. Text each other prayers, I have so many women in this room and I’m so thankful they’re here, I have current people and people from my church back home, every one of those women currently continually text often and say, how can I be praying for you this week, what are you praying for this week and it is the simplest response to be able to do that and I have accountability, because guess what they’re going to do when I see my friend Tara in person, I’m going to say, how are things going with  that situation and it gives us that accountability. So, as we finish up in thinking about the time, the direct correlation is, we’re talking about these minutes and grab minutes like the more time is more desire it’s equal the opposite way. The less time, the less desire we’re going to have, I don’t crave things I’ve never eaten, I don’t say I’d love some beets today, I have never eaten a beet, I don’t care about a beet, I don’t know where they are in the store, but guess what, I do know, I know where the ice cream is. I will pick up the Ingle cell paper to find out exactly which brands are on sale.

Because, I love it and I’m thinking about it and it’s dwelling in me. I’m not saying that’s healthy, but, if we take that approach to tasting something in it being good and wanting more of it, that is how we approach our practice of spiritual disciplines and we want our disciplines to become habit, our habits to become instinct and our instinct to become delight. So, as we’re leaving, I want to leave you with just some practical ways that we can do what we can practice these disciplines and I would encourage you all to ask each other that tonight at dinner and when you’re sitting down later on tonight, how do you delight in the Lord, what are some cool creative ways that you’re practicing prayer, what are some cool creative ways that you’re practicing memorizing the word? Some of these came from the responses I asked that in the survey. Some of these are my own. Some of these are from the ladies. So, for Bible study, handwrite entire chapters that you’re studying, read a Psalm or Proverb with a family at dinner. These, again, are just grabbing those minutes. When you wake up in the morning, if that’s not your time for the day, pick up a prayer, valley of vision, Puritan prayers. Read a prayer that morning. Read one before you go to bed, instead of sitting on the scroll. Listen, I call it a task study.

Like while I’m doing yard work or folding laundry, listening to the word being spoken into my ears for prayer, prayer partners, prayer journals, writing out your prayers, prayer plans. Tuesdays, I’m going to pray for missionaries. Wednesdays, I’m going to pray for my lost friends and family. Another resource is called Praying the Bible by. Donald Whitney totally changed how I approach prayer and it is a tiny, little, wonderful book that packs a punch and then, scripture memory, songs to scripture. This is probably the one discipline that I know some of us are like it’s just hard for me to memorize, my brain is taken up with school and kids and all that, sing your scripture, it doesn’t have to be on an index card in a box labeled out. Sing it and there are so many cool resources, Shane and Shane, Ellie Holcomb, Mission House. These are all great resources where the entire Psalm or an entire passage of scripture is put to music and also Anna Rose mentioned the kids, slugs and bugs, I had never heard of that, but I’m about to check about to check that out. Taping scripture while I’m brushing my teeth, every morning, we have a little thing in our bathroom that has three verses on it and I can do that. I’m brushing my teeth, guess what you’re doing, memorizing scripture. Did you have to trudge and oh, I can’t remember it, I can’t you’re just looking at it every day and it’s going in there. Use, apps again

I limit the amount of stuff that I use, but that might be the way that helps you remember. Use apps for memorization, but ultimately, we just want to fight for delight in these spiritual disciplines in these practices and so, that we can know him more fully and know him more intimately and he also delights in us, but just women, let’s love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, all right thanks for coming.