Hi and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Welcome to the first Friday five in September, what we do every Friday as a kind of a break from our usual week of daily inspiration,

lists of all kinds

of randomness, always five things. And today, I have a really great Friday five for you because

it involves two things I absolutely love. Studying God's Word and, for the first time on this

show, a giveaway. Yep, you heard it right.

We are giving away a Bible to one of you listeners,

and how many of you know a Bible isn't cheap, right?

So don't miss the show notes where it will tell you

exactly how to win this Bible and get a pen ready

because I'm about to tell you five of my favorite ways

to study God's Word.

It's no secret to any of you who know me or listen here that I love the Word of God

and advocate for us to be reading more of it, but not only reading it, studying it,

really diving in, learning what verses mean, and in what

context, and taking it all in. So today's show is dedicated to some practices that makes

studying the word hopefully easier for you and richer, and here we go. Number one in the Friday

five, five ways to study the Word of God. Number one, memorization. Memorizing the word

is a powerful way to study the word I've found. In fact, I think it's the most powerful way to

study the Bible and learn God's word, truly hide it in our heart. There are different methods

to follow online. You can Google scripture memorization literally,

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