In this Q & A with Dann Farrelly, Pastor Bill shares his devotional routine and how he stewards affection for the Lord in everyday life.
well bill not to get too personal but
what is your morning routine look like
with the Lord just starting your day
with him and maybe to speak to the
evening as well well my my schedule is
weird as you know because of the travel
there’s not a routine which is tragic
when I’m home there’s more of a routine
but but you know sometimes I’m up at 3
in the morning to catch flight going yes
yes seeking the Lord on my way to the
king in airplane yeah yeah so sometimes
my prayer time is on a plane I mean it’s
pitiful but sometimes that to be
practically to be practical that’s what
it looks like but routinely normally if
i if I’m able to work a routine cos I’m
home for a week or five days or whatever
I just like to get up early enough to go
in and get some coffee and sit in a
chair and and read and pray and that’s
just what I do I keep it real simple
big part of my of my life is just
affection for God and so if I’m gonna
pray for example if I’m gonna pray for
an hour probably 45 minutes of it’s
gonna be worship you know I that’s what
I emphasize I emphasize just the
adoration the affection the the ministry
to him and then and then I’ll obviously
pray for things and but it’s it’s it’s
not you know it’s it’s not impressive in
the sense of all the warfare and the
things that takes place I really for the
most part my life is pretty simple when
crisis comes up then of course you you
amp it up and and I’ll be much more
focused in in the prayer if I see
something that needs attention then then
I’ll oftentimes at the office I just I
to leave the office I’ll go out and go
to the back side of our property and
just cry out to the Lord there and begin
to pray and find some place where I can
get some solitude and and do that so
that’s that’s kind of how my left form
what role the psyche reading the
scripture have in are you reading for
quality or quantity or are you working
through the Bible here or you I read for
me yeah I mean I do I read I read for so
that I learned so that I stay healthy
and then I teach out of that but I
changed my routine some
times I will read like right now I’m
reading Kenneth we strands Latian which
is very expanded and very unusual in the
way he translated things but I’m
enjoying reading I went through the
Gospel of John I’m now in the book of
Acts and I’ll take sections usually of
the Bible it’s how I generally how it
works I’ll take the four Gospels maybe
I’ll take the Gospels and acts I’ll just
reread and reread sometimes I’ll take
the books of law or I’ll take I always
have the Psalms going that’s a
continuous I’ve had that going nonstop
for you know probably 20 years or 25
years so there’s never a break there I’m
always in the salt but but I’ll take
sections sometimes I’ll just do all New
Testaments sometimes all Old Testament
and I just just plod through great so at
night anything special or night I read
at night always always very rarely do I
not even if I land somewhere at 3:00 in
the morning and I go to the to my hotel
room even if I have to stand up I’m
going to read you’re standing up to stay
awake as I stay away yeah seriously even
if that’s what I have to do or if just
sit on the edge of my chair or something
I’m gonna read something this I want to
get the mind of Christ just I want to go
to sleep with that so I go to sleep with
this affection for God but I like to go
to sleep with this word in my mind
not so that I ask questions and pray all
night because I want to sleep so I
generally a general almost always
worried the songs because they just
ignites the affection the love love for
God so that’s beautiful yes yeah I’d
love to take spots during the day too I
absolutely love to and sometimes it
works like if I’m traveling it works
because they’ll generally be a break-in
in a conference where maybe I have an
afternoon session worm free go to the
room and just rest and get before the
Lord and you know that’s that’s what I
like