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How to Create A Daily Bible Study Routine

I’ve never been a stranger to the Bible. Growing up, it was expected that we spend time studying the Bibles on a daily basis. I didn’t always live by what I learned. Rather, there was a season of my life when I did pretty much the opposite. But what I have come to love about how my parents raised us (my 6 siblings and me) is that no matter what sort of mess we were in or what hurt we were feeling, we always knew how to open up the Bible and hear from God. I believe our daily Bible study routine is partly responsible.

Simple Tips For Daily Bible Study

What I didn’t realize when I started “Let’s Talk Bible Study” is that not many women shared the childhood Bible study “experience” that my parents gifted our family. So when it came to studying the Bible as an adult I found a lot of women had the desire to learn about the Bible and study and grow from it, but have no idea where to start. It’s something they were never taught. If you’re in that boat, hang in there. We’ve put together some simple tips that can make daily Bible study a reality for you no matter how new (or veteran) you are to this Bible study thing.

Every valuable thing I have learned about life, relationships, parenting, and marriage can be traced back to the Bible. This is why I think it’s so important that women learn how to study and navigate God’s Word. Here are some simple tips that can help you get started now.

How to Plan A Personal Bible Study

When it comes to creating daily Bible study habits Bible having a plan you can reference each day can make all the difference. You’ll want to plan you’re where and when (am or pm? bedroom or kitchen?) along with your “how”.

1. Pick a time and place and schedule it in. You might find it helpful to create a reminder on your self phone or write it in your planner. I keep mine on my tending list (it’s kind of like a habit tracker for spiritual growth) that stays on my refrigerator.

2. Choose your study plan and style. I’ve always found it really helpful to have an actual reading plan for my study time. It helps keep me focused instead of wandering aimlessly. My favorite Bible reading plan to date has been the One Year Chronological Bible reading plan from Tindale. On occasion, I’ll choose a book study (this one – Armor of God – is my favorite) to go through with friends. You can also find Bible reading plans on apps like She Works His Way, First 5, Dwell, and You Version. My friend Rebekah has an awesome Bible study on YouVersion called Lies Moms Believe and How the Gospel Refutes Them. Go check that out!

3. Gather your supplies. I find it really helpful to have all of my Bible study tools in one place so I’m not running around at the last minute trying to find things. These are the tools I use for Bible Study.

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    • Bible Study Key (a color-coding and highlighting key that helps me break down scripture. Download it free here).
    • a notebook or prayer journal,
    • reading plan, or study guide.
    • Inductive Bible study cards (it’s a printable Bible insert that has all of the Inductive Bible study questions on it, plus questions that help me do a quick scripture-based heart-check.
    • Inductive Bible Study Bible Insert (an alternative to the Bible study Cards – get all the study questions on one sheet designed to fit snug in the pages of your Bible. )

Depending on what you’re studying it might also be helpful to have a concordance with you. The main job of a concordance is to help you capture the original Hebrew or Greek definitions of words. It’s great for deep dives but can also be really intimidating if you are new to studying the Bible. This is the concordance I use. It’s thorough, yet simple to navigate.

Including Prayer In Your Bible Study Routine

Prayer is a great way to prepare to hear from God as we study. What trips a lot of people up, is not knowing what to pray prior to their study. In the book, Transforming Prayer: How Everything Changes When You Seek God’s Face, Daniel Henderson teaches about the power of worship-based prayer.

Worship-based prayer is the practice of allowing scripture to lead you into a time of worship and prayer. It’s about coming to God in reverence and wonder based on who He says He is in His word.

One of the “challenges” I took up from Henderson’s book was the practice of opening to a Psalm and allowing it to lead me into worship and prayer prior to my actual Bible study. Can I tell you, there is nothing more incredible than letting worship set the stage for your Bible study. In those few moments while I’m worshiping and meditating on God’s character, holiness, love; all of Him, I become so eager to hear from Him and learn at His feet.

How to Study the Bible for Yourself

1. Start with worship-based prayer.

2. Pull out your Bible study plan and read through the assigned reading.

3. Use the Bible Highlighting key to highlight key scripture that stood out to you.

4. Circle any words you aren’t familiar with and look them up either in the concordance or online using Blue Letter Bible or Bible Gateway.

5. Work through one or two of the questions from the Bible Study cards (or the Bible Questions checklist).

6. Journal additional thoughts.

7. Close in prayer. This is the part of prayer where aside from just worshipping, I seek God for His will and provision in my life. Somedays it helps to use a guided prayer journal. Other days it’s just me, my pen, and a simple page of a prayer notebook. Do what works best for you and the season you’re in.

8. Meditate throughout the day on what you’ve learned.

Why I Include Meditation In My Bible Study Routine

When we study what it actually means to abide in God’s Word, it’s not necessarily that we are reading chunks of it every day, but that we are MEDITATING on God’s Word every day. This is a discipline that stood out to me while studying the life of David and reading the Psalms.

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 1:1-2

I will meditate on Your precepts
And regard Your ways.
I shall delight in Your statutes;
I shall not forget Your word.
Psalm 119:15-16