how do you develop for a young person i'm getting a lot of questions about developing devotional habits developing time in the word and you know working with high school students all of their homework is on a device everything is interactive everything is sensory overload all of their entertainment is quick it's it is meant for a stupider generation and is it to entertain this we don't hold our attention spans longer so now you come to something like this it's black and white and it's hard to understand and you know you start a bible reading plan and
once you get to leviticus you're ready to die kind of thing and so how do you how do you help these young men to see this is what the psalms call a treasure and a delight and and even how can dads help young men uh understand the practices of being in this book and how to delight in this book yeah um the first thing that you have to realize is when you see someone who seems to be given to prayer and the study of god's word don't buy into the lie that they do that because
it's easy for them that they have a special gift [Music] when i woke up from whatever i was coma or whatever i was in after my heart attack and one of the first things i noticed was the pain was unbelievable they had pounded me with that machine so many times that it felt like all my ribs were broke and to breathe i wanted to scream every time i inhaled it was horrible to breathe but what's the option die and that's that's where you've got to come to that point i read three chapters this morning and
i read in spanish i read out of my spanish bible i read three chapters i have a discipline of three chapters and this before i go do my studies but just devotional reading with the lord and i can't tell you how many times i had to repeat a paragraph because i read it and it was like what did i just read still today it's a fight it is a fight everything in my life is a fight but but the option is die [Music] and that's what you have to see young man you have to cultivate
discipline you have to create it i remember when i first i was learning martial arts and i thought i was gonna you know just go in the first day and get to punch somebody or something and they made me stand in a certain way i don't know for how long and then they made me move my hand the same way every time and it was just getting boring been there for months and then one day i walked in and the professor or whatever all of a sudden i saw a punch come straight at me i
mean out of nowhere i didn't have my ghee on as a punch just flew across my face and i remember cross blocking like that wow that was that's pretty cool and the thing is it's developing discipline but the real issue is you haven't come to the point where you truly believe if i don't consume this book and i don't learn to pray i'm gonna die and you will
