A Week of Weeks With God

A 49-day devotional on spiritual habits, wise living, and the design God built into us.

Welcome

Welcome, or welcome back, to A Week of Weeks With God. This is a 49-day devotional aimed at improving your relationship with God, but also connecting those habits of faith to psychology.

I’m not aiming to connect positive well-being with Scripture in a forced way. What I really want to show is that, when it comes to positive psychology, God, our Creator and designer, got there first. Positive psychology can help explain why things happen, but the Bible shows us the blueprint, and when we do things that improve our mental health, we are often operating within the design parameters God built into us.

How to Use This Seven-Week Devotional Journey

This devotional is based on a book I am working on built around seven spiritual pillars: Humility, God’s Word, Prayer, Wise Counsel, Long-term Consequences, Integrity and Justice, and Trusting God’s Sovereignty.

The devotional is written with the purpose of helping you live out these Seven Pillars, not just understand them in theory. Over seven weeks, we focus on one pillar at a time. Each week includes seven daily readings that follow the same pattern:

• A brief story that relates the pillar to everyday life.
• A Scripture passage to meditate on and pray through.
• An application that connects truth to your current habits.
• A simple daily challenge with an action and a prayer.

Building a Routine

• Each day, read that day’s devotional for the current week and follow the action and prayer as your response.
• If you miss a day, don’t panic. Simply pick up with today’s reading and keep going.

Using This Journey Alone or with Others

You can walk through these seven weeks on your own, but I think they would be even more helpful in community. You might:

• Go through one week at a time with a small group, discussing what God is showing you.
• Pair up with a friend or mentor and share briefly how you lived out each day’s challenge.
• Use the seven weeks as a focused season of retreat, returning to this material periodically through the year.

The goal is not to get through all forty-nine devotionals perfectly like a checklist. If you miss a day, it’s not a big deal. My goal in writing this is to help you walk closer with God, one decision at a time, as these pillars become part of the way you think, pray, and live.

We’ve all spent time in our personal wilderness, and we’ve all made decisions we wish we hadn’t. I want to help you build a set of habits to help you maintain your walk with God while considering decisions a little deeper and improving your spiritual and mental well-being.

And When We’re Done with the 49 Days?

We start again. It’s about building habits, and there’s always something to work on. This means if you’ve found us during a cycle you can join without missing anything. Although there is some reasoning behind the order of the pillars, it’s not critical, it’s ultimately about building habits, and there’s no better time to start than right now.

If you find this interesting, I am currently working on a book to provide more detail from research and Scripture to show how Biblical choices are not simple commands from God for the sake of it. They are guidance for improved mental health and happier living.

The Seven Weeks