Q: Help Reading the Bible
Helps as you read the Bible
How often should a Christian read the Bible?
Answer: Daily.
Reading Scripture every day is a basic practice of a Christian. God uses the Bible to communicate with us. We have conversations every day with our spouse or our best friend. Imagine never talking to the person you claim to love. Would you go a day or week without talking to your spouse? No way. They would think you do not really care about them if they never had conversations with you or werent allowed to talk to you, because you cut them off. Keeping the Bible closed is equal to saying I dont want to hear from you! No Christian would do that. No Christian would only be open to hear from their spouse 1 day a week either. That would be a horrible relationship, and would show there's something really wrong with me if I did such a thing towards God.
If you have been neglecting God and keeping a wall up and communication off...you might want to re examine yourself to see if you really are saved / if you are a false convert.
Scripture is the way God speaks to us, and prayer is how we speak to God. Both are essential daily. God is not some genie you rattle off a list of wants and expect to get things from like a santa claus, and just live how you want to. The new nature compells us to long for God and his Word.
Ensure you obeyed the real Gospel.
Examine yourself to see if you are saved.
Bible Helps and Resources
What English Bible should I be reading? >> Helpful guide
How to read Daily?
Set aside a quiet time every day, set a daily alarm on your phone, and stick to it, without fail. Best time to read is just after you get up. Use the bathroom, grab coffee, tea, water and go sit and read for 20 to 30 minutes. Read Mon thru Sat, and let Sunday be a focus at Church. Or move Sunday reading to evening before Bed if you want to read a full 7 days, in your reading plan. Start and end your reading time in prayer. Meditate on what your read, during the day. Optionally, also Listen to that portion on audio Bible in the car on the commute to reinforce what you read. But focus on the road and dont get destracted while driving 🙏.
Recommended Reading plan
There are several reading plans you can go through when reading Scripture. This link offers various ideas from plain reading from cover to cover, to unique plans, to fun plans, and even by doctrine. Best to start John to Revelation and then go cover to cover, before starting a diff plan as you begin a lifetime of daily reading.
Studies through the Bible?
You can take advantage of sermons, by well respected biblical preachers. One huge resource is at gty.org you can study by topic, verse by verse and even book by book. Over 54 years of messages are archived here, (that is over 5,000 sermons), created by in depth study. While the best place to access all these are on the gty website directly... you can go thru a sample study; The Gospel of John on youtube. In fact, you can even go through this series daily ....even apart from your daily reading in Scripture. It is a fantastic series, so I do recommend it. And it gives you a taste of the great resources gty offer through the sermons there that double as Bible studies. It is also connected to the below app.
Help with Difficult passages ?
There are resources to help with this.
Sermons on that section of Scripture, faq's, or topic, & cross references in Scripture to help on the topic
* the above are also available thru a free app from StudyBible.org
This is an area where if the above doesnt address something this search site can help GotQuestions.org
If all the above dont answer it, try this archive.
Interpreting Scripture rightly
Some articles here [on this site] are written to help non Christians, but this one explains this topic well.
⭐All of these helps and much more are linked here at Bible Resources
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