A study on the holy spirit

http://www.globalchristians.org/ebooks/Holy%20Spirit%20Bible%20Studies.pdf

And notes on Quiet time

It is amazing how having someone else with us can completely change the passion and realness that we pray with. Meeting with God is such a living thing. It does not stay the same from day to day or week to week. Sometimes I will be reading a book of the bible and will overflow with excitement and joy and a few days later I could have dry feelings or distraction from the same book. I think God does this to keep reminding us that we are not spending time with a book or by ourselves or with some sort of method. We are meeting with a person. The book or the method only set the boundaries for us to meet God through.

I've often needed help out of the valley or dry spots. I don't think that is unusual at all. Friends' prayers help a lot. In fact Jesus talks about how important it is to come together to pray. (Mt 18" For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.") Books like Sacred Rythms and Way of the Heart can also help us reconnect with our longings for God.

One of the most interesting things for me to think and learn about lately has been motivations and desires. It think you will really enjoy SR since it talks so much about this. Other passages like Mt 6 or Psalm 42 speak on motivations as well. It might be interesting to ask yourself, if you haven't already, if you process information better by yourself or with people, if you are relationally driven or if you are motivated in other ways, how you connect with God the most (Through Nature, tradition,your senses, activism, celebration, intellectual ideas, or contemplation). We all connect to God in different ways. We all are motivated in different ways. Most of us connect to God in several different ways.

Jesus says that "eternal life it to know God and Jesus" by experiencing him.
Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart."