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POTTERS TOUCH DEVOTIONAL. SUNDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2017. TODAY'S DEVOTION.QUALITY READING OF GOD'S WORD.

POTTERS TOUCH DEVOTIONAL.

SUNDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2017.

TODAY'S DEVOTION.QUALITY READING OF GOD'S WORD.

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE. “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24 NIV)

Yesterday we learnt the three basic steps for quality quiet time which are relax,request and read. Today, I will outline some basic ways that can lead to an effective daily quiet time with God's word.

1. Read the word slowly. Don’t be in a hurry; don’t try to read too large an amount; don’t race through it. 

2. Read the word repeatedly. Read a passage over and over until you start to picture it in your mind. 

3. Read without stopping. Don’t stop in the middle of a sentence to go off on a tangent and do a doctrinal study. Read that section for the pure joy of it, allowing God to speak to you. 

4. Read it out quietly. Reading it aloud will improve your concentration. It will also help you understand what you are reading better because you will both see and hear what you are reading. Read softly so that you don’t disturb anyone. 

5.Read it systematically. Don’t use the “random dip” method  a passage here, a chapter there, what you like here, an interesting portion there. Read through the Bible as it was written  choose a book or letter at a time in an orderly method.

Your quality of life depends on the quality of the word you are able to access by reading and internalising same. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall mediate on it day and night(Joshua 1:8).

TODAY'S QUESTION.
Why do believers not give quality time to the reading of God's word these days?

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