All right, howdy friends. Thank you for being here today. I hope y'all are doing awesome. You out there getting after it.

I want to take a little bit of time to answer a question that I get all the time from people on social media, sending me messages, asking me the same question.

How do I go about studying the Bible, studying scripture, reading the Bible?

It can be confusing. It's a big collection of books. There's a lot of stuff in there.

And yeah, sometimes you don't know where to start. So I'm going to share with you guys what I do,

and it's not a perfect system. I'm not saying that it's the only way to do it but

what I am saying this is what I do and maybe it'll benefit some of you guys think the first

thing that you need to understand is that the Bible is meant for you to read it really is

believe it or not it's it's the Almighty God's message to us. All right. So

you can read the Bible. It says what it says. It's meant to be understood. It's meant for God's

people to be able to use not only as a guidebook in life, but to reveal to us who our Father in heaven is and what his

plan for our salvation is. So you can read it. You can understand it. It's meant to be read.

You don't have to have someone who is a religious expert explain every single thing to you.

If you're able to read and comprehend what you're reading, you're going to be able to take something away from the time that you do spend in scripture reading.

So how do I approach it?

On a day-to-day basis, I like to start my day off reading in the scripture.

It's a huge, probably the most important part of my routine.

A lot of times I get lazy. I don't want to get up in the morning or early enough in the morning to spend time doing that.

You know, I want to sleep as long as I can and I want to get up and just get right into my day, whatever I have scheduled for that day, for work or family or whatever my responsibilities are. And every

time I get into that cycle and I neglect the effort that it takes to get up a little extra early

to spend some time in God's word and also in prayer during that morning time,

it significantly impacts who I am as I go throughout that day.

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