A Daily Practice to Connect with God
7 minutes to become still, turn toward God, and rest in His presence.
When Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, He addressed God with these words:
“Abba, Father.” — Mark 14:36
ABBA begins there, with the relationship between a child and the Father.
Jesus taught us to approach God with trust, humility, dependence, and the openness of a child.
ABBA is a daily practice of returning to that posture: becoming still, releasing our need to control everything, and turning toward the Father with childlike trust.
What happens in 7 minutes?
ABBA gently guides you from the noise of the day into a quieter, more attentive relationship with God.
Become still
Step away from distraction, slow down, and bring your attention into the present moment.
Turn toward the Father
Through prayer and Scripture, deliberately turn your attention toward God — not as an abstract idea, but as Abba, Father.
Trust and surrender
Bring Him what you are carrying. Release the need to control, solve, or understand everything, and practice the childlike trust Jesus taught.
Rest in His presence
There is nothing to achieve and nothing to perform. Simply remain with God — receptive, attentive, and at rest in His presence.
Just 7 minutes. Practiced daily. Carried into the rest of your life.
Ancient practice. Explored through modern science.
Prayer, stillness, trust, surrender, gratitude, and contemplation long predate neuroscience.
ABBA does not derive its spiritual practice from science. Its foundation is the teachings of Jesus and biblical Scripture.
What modern neuroscience can offer is another perspective: an increasingly detailed view of what may be happening within the human brain and nervous system when we repeatedly direct attention, become still, pray, contemplate, trust, and release what we are carrying.
Research into attention, neuroplasticity, emotional regulation, stress, and contemplative practice can help us ask deeper questions about the human side of prayer — and better understand some of the changes that repeated practice may produce within us.
Science does not explain God.
It can help us understand the human being who turns toward God.