Best Bible Reading Plan?

[Nathand]

I haven't read my bible in a really long time and most of the time find it either confusing or boring now that I'm trying to start reading again Can anyone recommend a good bible reading plan for me?

 

[drich0150]

Ask God to give you an earnest want and desire, for everything he has written, ask him to change the way you feel about reading his written word, and to do what ever it take to get you to want his word. And keep asking everyday 5 or 6 times a day till you get it. Once he has put this thirst into your life then the only reading plan you need will be one that makes you find time for sleep.

 

[janny108]

Would you believe I never read the whole bible in 28 years?? Well, I started around Jan 1 using the Daily Bread outline. I'm halfway thru! It's the only way I've been able to be faithful to do it.
Jan

 

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[mont974x4]

I did the Bible in a year reading 3 chapters a day.

I did take a break and just read a few small NT books now and then just to keep from getting "dry" being on a rigid schedule.


Now I'm doing the NT again doing 2-3 chapters a day.

 

[latebloomer]

Try googling "bible reading plans". There's straight through, alternate OT & NT, Genres (different type of Bible literature every day--law, gospel, history, etc), OT & NT at the same time, chronological order of events, order the books were written....You can also find "sampler" plans where you read parts, but not all. Try some out, if you don't like them, try another plan.

I pick one out, print it, then use the printed sheet as a bookmark. Some days I might read more, others less, than is on the plan, and I ignore dates. If I don't understand something, I read it again, maybe in another translation, and then I might check cross-references or study notes or a Bible commentary or handbook. Then, as Martin Luther said, praise God and keep on reading. Some Bible editions have introductions that tell when each book was written, who wrote it, and some historical notes. It helps me some to know the "original audience". I find it helpful to skip around a little sometimes, for variety. I like to read a whole book at a time, but not necessarily in the order they are printed. No matter how many times I've read a passage, I always find something new. But one suggestion--do not start with reading in the Old Testament prophets. Start with Genesis or the gospels.

 

[cyberlizard]

this is slight deviation, but is likely to have been the reading plan jesus used, which was instituted following the time of Ezra.

it is actually a torah reading schedule, and focuses on the Torah in a year, if you get the Torah into you, much more of Jesus teaching makes sense, as Jesus said Moses' teaching was authoritve.

I anyone want a reading schedule, PM me.


Steve

p.s. almost all observant Jews and Messianic Believers will follow this schedule, and the readings will be read in each of the synagogues each week.

 

[Sammygirl76]

I read the niv bible only because I find it the easiest to understand but I did hear somewhere that it is a good idea to read from all different bibles, I don't know if this is correct or not. But my brother who is dyslexic and had trouble reading the bible, I bought for him the message bible, because it reads like a novel, he really found that was a great starting point. I have just started reading the bible all the way through, but what I found helped me to start reading it, was to start with reading a psalm and a proverb every day, then as I developed that I would pray before reading it and ask God to show me another scripture, I would go to what I felt God was saying and read and underline that scripture, until I found that i had read the whole chapter. The other thing that helped me too, and this only works if your a hidden nerd like myself lol, is that I would read a chapter then sit down and write about it for ten or so minutes sometimes as long as an hour, just about what it meant to me, and what God was saying to me through it. I still find myself doing that, because then I wasn't just reading it for the sake of reading it, but I was really getting in there and studying it.

Well I hope some of that helps.