@caitlinbarbery5260

3 months ago

This is precisely what I’m struggling with. Because on one hand I completely believe what this video is teaching, and on the other side of that coin, I’ve had so many people at church tell me they read their Bible etc even though they didn’t feel like it or didn’t feel led to so they forced themselves to set a timer (for example, 15-30 minutes) every day. And while I understand building a habit can be good, I don’t want my desire of spending time with God be based on trying to “build a habit”, I want to actually learn how to genuinely be there in my heart reading the Bible and praying to God and everything. I don’t want to feel like I’m doing a homework assignment or just trying to get by or would rather do something else other than reading the Bible. I want that desire to change, I want to always crave the Bible like I did in the beginning of my faith. I’ve tried listening to what some people at church recommended me (setting a timer and doing a little bit each day), but within a few days, I lost the whole “trying to build a habit” thing, because when I was reading the Bible, I didn’t heed onto the words when I was forcing myself to read it. I have a study Bible, I’ve read the notes and everything and they make sense but I didn’t have a deeper understanding of it that I feel that I need…I’ve tried Bible studies they’ve invited me to, that didn’t help either. But, there are certain days where the Holy Spirit urges me to read todays devotional or to read the Bible that day, and when I listen to the Holy Spirit telling me to read certain things, there’s things that I needed to hear, that I read that God told me to read, I’ve had realizations when I listen to what God tells me to read in the Bible or in a devotional or on when there are times where I need to hear a message from church, I have never had a revelation from people who have told me to build a habit to read the Bible everyday, I’ve had a revelation from when God tells me to read scriptures at certain moments. It’s less about how much or how many pages and chapters can we read each day just so we can say “I read the whole Bible”, and more about being slow of reading the Bible and more about studying every scripture in due time really heeding onto what things mean

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