My birthday is this Friday and I want to take a moment to thank God for this journey I’ve been on since getting baptized last August. It took me 27 years to finally understand that God loves me… And here I am turning 28, still pursuing Him just as I had last year when I discovered His love.

Recently I found myself asking God to help me with managing my time so that I can build my relationship with Him. I realized that I was making excuses because of work, friends, and (don’t judge) video games! I was spending way too much time doing other things and less time with God. However, the desire to know Him was always there… I just kept falling into old habits.

I realized that this was a constant struggle for old and new believers. So I reached out to God to guide me because I never want to stop seeking His face.

Then a bible study friend of mine recommended an app called Read Scripture. This app helps you to spend 10 – 20 minutes a day with God using their videos and scriptures in chronological order of the Bible. It is basically a year long Bible plan so that you’d read the whole Bible in one year! I absolutely love it and I recommend it to people who struggle with understanding the stories in the Bible.

I really love how this app tells each book of the Bible as a story. It gives me a better understanding of all the people and events mentioned in the Bible and helps me to remember their names. Also, you can set notifications on your phone to receive reminders so that you never miss a day!

Another app that I discovered is called the Bible app. I’ve sure you’ve all heard of this one since it’s the most popular app out there for people who love devotionals and the “Verse Of The Day”. Because of this app, I am able to commit to devotionals with friends as we do them together. You can do this by setting up a profile and adding your friends from your phone’s contact list. Once they accept, you can complete devotionals together and keep track of each others progress.

The Bible app has really great devotionals for depression, anxiety, love, hope, and so much more! This app is great for people who want to be inspired by the word and build a closer relationship with God using devotionals with your friends or by yourself.

“O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.” – Psalms 63:1, NKJV

So those are the two apps I’ve been using to build my relationship with God. While these methods are very useful for our busy schedule, there’s also another way that is much simpler and familiar for most of us.

Every morning on the way to work, I turn on my worship music that I’ve saved on a Spotify playlist. I have the music play on shuffle because I always feel like God choses just the right song for me on the way to work. I drive listening, praying, and just talking to God as if he were sitting right next to me. I’m sure the drivers around me are concerned that I may be talking to myself, but that’s okay! Music is a great way to escape from the noise of this world and just be in tune with what God is trying to say in our hearts.

I pray that we never stop seeking Him.

I pray that we keep asking questions.

I pray that God speaks to us in ways we would never imagine.

What are some ways that you’ve been building your relationship with God?

(1 Chronicles 16:11)