40 Days With The Holy Spirit Rt Kendall

What 40 Days With The Holy Spirit Rt Kendall Actually Looks Like

I picked up this devotionals program about three years ago after someone at church mentioned it. The format is straightforward: daily readings and prayers designed around the person of the Holy Spirit, structured across a forty-day period. Rt Kendall is a pastor who puts together teaching guides, and this particular series has been circulating in certain charismatic and pentecostal circles for a while now. You can find PDF copies online fairly easily, usually hosted on ministry sites or forums where people share spiritual resources. The main site tends to rotate or go down occasionally, so I keep a local backup saved. The core concept behind the program is that spending sustained time each day focused on the Holy Spirit — rather than just general Bible reading — reshapes how you approach prayer, discernment, and daily decisions. Each day has a scripture passage, a short teaching section, and guided prayer points. That is the basic structure. Nothing fancy about it. The teaching draws from Acts, the Pauline epistles, and Isaiah, with a heavy emphasis on understanding the Spirit's role in the believer's life beyond just the gifts aspect.

40 Days With The Holy Spirit Rt Kendall

Getting started is simple enough. You download or print the daily materials, set a consistent time each day, and work through one section at a time. I do mine in the morning before anything else, usually with a cup of coffee and a notebook. Writing down what the text says and what the prayer section is pushing you toward makes a real difference. Reading it passively and moving on tends to make the whole thing blur together after about ten days. Here is something most people skip over: the program assumes you already have some familiarity with basic Christian doctrine and charismatic theology. If you are completely new to the idea of the Holy Spirit being an active, personal presence rather than just a theological concept, the early days can feel abstract. I ran into that with a friend who borrowed my copy. She got through day seven and then stopped because she said the language felt too internal and vague. The workaround was having her pair each day's reading with a straightforward Bible study guide on the same passages, just to ground the concepts in something more concrete before moving into the prayer application side. That cut the confusion significantly. The teaching sections occasionally lean heavily on Greek word studies without much translation for readers who are not comfortable with the original languages. Words like charisma, pneuma, and enancheo show up regularly. The program expects you to look those up or already know what they mean. I keep a basic Strong's Concordance open on my phone during the sessions so I am not constantly searching. It adds maybe twenty minutes a day to the process but it changes how you understand what Kendall is actually saying.

One thing that caught me off guard: the program is not designed to be rushed or compressed. I tried doing two days at once on a weekend because my schedule was tight, and it did not work well. The material builds sequentially across the forty days. The later sections on spiritual gifts and discernment assume you have sat with the earlier foundational days on the Spirit's personhood and presence. Skipping ahead leaves gaps that make the later teachings feel disjointed. I ended up just accepting a slower pace and finishing in about five weeks instead of four. That was fine. There are also some practical limitations worth noting. The PDF versions that circulate sometimes have formatting issues — misaligned headings, missing page numbers, or truncated sections at the end of certain days. I hit that on days eighteen through twenty-two last time through. I just worked around it by printing from the web version when the PDF was broken and cross-referencing with the audio teaching if Kendall released one for that section. Another issue is that the prayer prompts are quite specific to a charismatic interpretive framework. If your tradition views the Spirit differently, some of the language will feel off or uncomfortable. That is not a flaw in the program itself, just a mismatch you should be aware of before committing to the full forty days. I also want to mention the cost question since it comes up a lot. The materials are generally free to download from the official ministry source, but there are third-party sites that bundle the program with other devotionals and charge for access. Those are unnecessary. I have never paid for anything related to this and I have seen no reason to start. The official channels distribute it without charge.

The most useful part of the program for me has been the prayer structure in the later days. Days thirty through forty shift toward practical application — how to walk in the Spirit day to day, how to handle moments when you feel spiritually dry, how to distinguish between your own thoughts and what feels like genuine spiritual prompting. That section alone made the earlier repetitive days feel worth it. I came back to those final days multiple times after finishing the full cycle. If you decide to go through it, I would recommend printing or saving a physical copy rather than reading from a screen. The attention span required for this kind of daily devotion work drops noticeably when you are on a phone or tablet. It is a small detail but it matters over forty straight days. Also, do not feel obligated to post about it or promote it on social media if that is not your thing. The program works fine as a private discipline. Some people treat it like a challenge or a campaign, and that can add pressure that turns what should be a quiet practice into something performative. I have gone through the full cycle twice now. The first time took me longer because I was reading everything slowly and looking up every Greek term. The second time I moved faster and caught themes I missed the first round. That pattern seems typical for this kind of structured devotion. You get something different each time you work through it.

The official download link is hosted on Rt Kendall's ministry website. It is usually under a resources or publications section. If the site is temporarily down, I have found the materials also mirror onto a couple of Christian resource forums. Just verify the file is complete before you start printing, since the truncated versions I mentioned do exist out there. A complete set should have exactly forty daily sections with consistent formatting throughout. If you are looking for something similar but from a different theological angle, Our Daily Bread or Reformed Church devotional cycles cover the Holy Spirit theme from narrower doctrinal frameworks. They lack the charismatic depth that this program goes for, but they might suit someone who finds the language too experiential. That is worth keeping in mind if you try a few days and the tone feels wrong for where you are at.