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GROW Model | Nurturing A Devotional Life: First Love

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We don’t drift into intimacy with God. We drift away. Slowly. Subtly. Often unnoticed. The devotional life isn’t about checking boxes—it’s about returning to our first love. It’s about choosing presence over performance, communion over consumption. Spiritual disciplines are not spiritual chores. They are sacred rhythms that reorient our hearts to the One who never stops pursuing us. They are how we say, “I still want You.”
10 Nov English South Africa Christianity · Christianity

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