January 11 — Step 11: Deepening Conscious Contact with God

Step Focus

Step 11: Sought through prayer and contemplation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Scripture

James 4:8 (NIV): “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”

🌤️ Theme Overview: Moving From Noise to Stillness

Step Eleven invites a shift from reacting to life’s pressures to responding from a place of spiritual grounding. In our Book of James study, we often reflect on how the ego thrives on noise—distraction, worry, busyness. But conscious contact with God grows in quiet spaces.

This step reframes prayer from “God, fix this” to “God, align my heart with Yours.” Contemplation becomes the practice of listening rather t ...