Begin with prayer that God will bless his Word through the Spirit.
Read through the day’s passage prayerfully, asking God to help you understand as you read.
You should always follow a plan of reading that takes you right through a book, starting each day where you left off the previous day.
Never plan to read too much, or there will not be time for the meditation. Ten to fifteen verses is usually ideal, depending on the kind of book. In the Epistles it may be less because there is so much content; but in narratives such as in the Old Testament it may be more.
It’s wonderful to live under Grace and not Law, but sometimes it can leave us with a level of confusion. —Is God pleased with me right now? —Does it matter what I do? What God actually wants from us is not what most of us think!
The most amazing promises of God being with people run through the Bible. If we can truly get hold of these promises and allow them to sink deeply into us, it will be a huge strength for us as we go into the New Year
Most of us have an inner voice that is constantly telling us that we should be doing better. This has been called ‘the inner bully’. There is an answer in Matthew 11.