Reading the Bible - when - planning
READ THE SCRIPTURES DAILY
Do it first thing in the morning before starting your day.
"No Bible, no breakfast, no read, no feed."
- Ray Comfort
Some people get overwhemed when it comes to figuring out how and when to read the Bible.
The Scriptures is God talking to you & prayer is you talking to God.
You cannot have a relationship with someone if you never let them speak, and you never learn things. Especially true when it comes to God. He gave us the Bible to be a light to our path as we walk in this sin stained world and fellowship with Him. It helps us walk the faith and grow in holiness. And also tells us how to share the gospel so others get saved too.
If you claimed to love someone but never let them communicate with you daily, and never read love letters they sent you, that person would think you don't actually love em.
If you do love God & Jesus your Savior, you would obey Him as your God, Creator, master and the bridegroom that he is.
So set your mind on God the one you love, and sit down to plan a way you will be in the Word daily.
The State of the Church research shows the importance of reading and studying Scripture because it drastically determines if your worldview is biblical or not. And that determines how you live day by day & hour by hour. If you rarely read, you have more of a worldly view but if you read daily you have a biblical worldview 👉and your life aligns to it.
Theres another important quote
"Sin will keep you from this book, and this book will keep you from sin."
For new believers or new to reading the Bible, I suggest you read through the Bible 2 times like below example, before you move to a studying of the Bible plan.
Consecutive read through the Bible
1st: Read John to Revelation: 15 - 30 min read thru daily only.
2nd: Read Genesis to Revelation: 15 - 30 min read thru daily only.
After you do the above you can move to other ways to study and reading plans thru the Bible.
Studying during fellowship with God in the Word:
Below are some ideas for ensuring your daily time in the Word and fellowship with God are beneficial. 😊
First, you need to Kill & conquer the sin of distractions so you can impliment this plan.
Do a trial run on Saturday and Sunday and Monday to see the best way to ensure it works, and tweak what you need to, to make it work. Then stick with it.
Single or married without kids
Night before:
Pull out your clothes.
Pull out your towels for shower.
Preset your tea kettle or coffee maker.
Pre prep lunches & pre pack em, including verse of the week in the lunch lid.
Pre prep dinner (fridge thaw, soak beans, mix/prep dough for bread, etc).
Pre prep breakfast
Dishes done & trash tied
When you get up, if you need a shower first to wake, do so. But if you dont need to, just
*go get your tea or coffee, grab your Bible and journal notebook. Start with prayer, Read 15-30 min, journal (optional), write verse of the day, close in prayer.
*Breakfast, Eat & meditate on what you read.
*Take verse to bathroom, put on mirror & memorize it while you get ready.
*Take a photo of it to look at on break during the day.
*Screen shot it for memorizing game: White out the words you know by heart, erase more as day goes by. (When home screen shot orig again and erase the words you havent memorized well yet. Try reading it a few times and put on bathroom mirror to memorize while getting ready for bed.)
*Before heading home, queue up a bible audio app for listening to Bible reading portion of the day on way home.
Married with kids at home
Similar to above.
Have father have them get their clothes out for next day
Have father help them get all their school stuff in their school bag, unless homeschooled.
Get up earlier than the kids, if they are under 8 years old.
If they get up early, have the father help them get ready, make sure they are doing teeth then washing up.
During that time mom is doing her Reading & prayer. Then dad is doing his while mom makes breakfast and gets lunches out.
Kids also reading or audio of their daily Bible time. Then,
Say meal prayer,
All eat at same time.
Dishes in sink, rinsed & head out the door
As needed.
Try to keep weekends the same, even if the Bible time is only 5 minutes. Stay on 7 day schedule.
Complicated season you are in?
Taking care of an elderly or sick family member that requires a lot of attention and care from the moment you get up?
Put charger/charged up earbuds next to the bed and your phone on night stand or charge station, open Bible app and select book you are on if it needs queuing up; hit play for a few seconds, then pause. When you wake up, before you get out of bed, put buds in, turn on the audio Bible. If using LBS playlist fm on yt; go to history and click play.
Get up, get ready, and go make meal. Then start attending to your family member. You can do this hearing of the Word when cooking, cleaning, buying or putting groceries away.
You should be able to get in about 30 min to 2 hrs of the Scriptures daily.
If your family member is Christian, tolerates the Bible or is deaf, you can play it on home speakers to focus on attending the person.
Try to keep weekends the same, even if the Bible time is only 5 minutes. Stay on 7 day schedule.
Here are Journal samples for adults for youth
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