This one picture here speaks so loudly to me, right when I came across this so much just flooded my mind.
How many of us pick up your Bible on a daily bases or just pick up on Sunday mornings for church or just let it collect dust? I am guilty of just letting my Bible collect dust and never pick it up, even when I would go to church I never brought it. Now I read it almost every single night and bring it with me every Sunday and everywhere I go if I am staying overnight. On road trips with the family, I will bring it and read it as much as I can before we get to our destination. My in-laws and my husband will tell you that my nose is pretty much in my Bible and have a pen or highlighter in my hand and paper by my side. I even call or facetime my aunt to ask a question or tell her about what I have learned or as we call it "Church on the phone"
When you read your Bible you are always going to get a different experience, you could read the same scriptures over and over again and there will be one that will pop out at you that didn't before.
When I first started reading my Bible, there were family issues going on so any verse that spoke about issues popped out at me and especially the ones that were about accepting the Lord. Now every time I am going through something that day and I pick up my Bible there is always something that sticks out.
Out of all the books, I have read, the Bible is the one book that I love and will keep reading. I have learned so much and in the process, I have learned so much about myself, the Bible has helped me change my life for the good and better understand how to handle when things go wrong. I have learned not to stress out as much and how not to let the little things bother me as much.
So at night when my husband and kids are all in bed, I will gather all the things that I will need and start studying and talk with the Lord.
This is what my nights look like and sometimes I will have all my other versions of my Bibles out and my other books that help me. When I started I didn't know where to start reading until my aunt suggested that I start reading all of the New Testament. Starting with the New Testament, it will lead you right. It will help you understand all Jesus went through for us.
If you have a Bible in your home, go and get it, sit down in a quiet place and start with the New Testament. This past summer I read the New Testament and I am now I am starting the Old Testament and in between that I studied topics like emotions, fear, change and so much more I relate to and was still struggling with. This really all helped me better understand things, and I heard from listening to Joyce Meyer that if you don't know what to study, just open the Bible up to Proverbs, Proverbs has as many chapters in it as there are days in one month. For example, today is the 14th so you would go to Proverbs 14 and ready that chapter and study it.
Take the time to sit down and read the bible. It takes 21 days to get in the habit of doing something, I have been doing this habit for 7 months now and it is the best habit to have to be truly honest with you all. My family will tell you I am one to never stick with something for more than a month but this I have stuck with since June 10, 2018, and I plan on sticking with for the rest of my life.
Lord,
Thank you for your guidance. Touch your people tonight, give them the guidance that they need to get through the hard times in life. I speak healing on all the need it. I love you Lord and Praise you.
In Jesus' name
Amen


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