Time spent studying your Bible?

[JennyorAlice]

How much time do you spend studying your Bible each day? Do you think you spend enough time studying your Bible?

 

[Can't think of a name]

I don't read the Bible every day but I do read Christian books that contain scripture verses. I don't think I spend enough time reading the Bible as I would like to. When I do pick it up I tend to binge read all the NT Epistles in one go.

 

[Lamb]

I don't pick up the physical book everyday, but I'm here on CH every day and that helps me to delve into God's word.

 

[jswauto]

I spend about an hour a day reading the Bible. About 10 chapters on the average per day. I complete the whole bible about 3 times a year.

here's a scripture that has really affected my bible reading mindset:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)

In the Beginning was the Word
When John 1:1 becomes the lens through which you read the rest of Scripture, it doesn’t just “influence” your mindset—it rebuilds it from the ground up. This single verse becomes a mind‑reset, a world‑reset, and a self‑reset. Let’s walk through how it reshapes the way you approach the entire Bible.

1. It shifts you from “information” to “revelation.”
When you read:
“In the beginning was the Word…”
You realize the Bible isn’t just a book about God.
It is a book that reveals the eternal Christ.
So instead of reading for:
• facts
• stories
• moral lessons
…you start reading for a Person.
Your mindset becomes:
“Jesus is speaking. Jesus is revealing. Jesus is here.”

2. It forces you to read the Bible with awe.
If the One you’re reading about is:
• older than time
• present before creation
• face‑to‑face with the Father
• fully God
…then every verse becomes holy ground.
You stop rushing.
You stop treating Scripture casually.
You stop reading it like a textbook.
Your mindset becomes:
“I’m encountering the eternal God in these words.”
This is the beginning of the fear of the Lord.

3. It makes Jesus the center of every passage.
John 1:1 tells you:
• Jesus is the Word
• Jesus is the Light
• Jesus is the Life
• Jesus is the Creator
So when you read Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, the Gospels, Revelation—you’re not looking for themes or principles first.
You’re looking for Him.
Your mindset becomes:
“Where is Jesus in this passage? What is He revealing about Himself?”
This is how Scripture becomes alive.

4. It destroys small, shallow views of Jesus.
John 1:1 confronts every reduced version of Christ:
• “Jesus the teacher”
• “Jesus the healer”
• “Jesus the moral example”
• “Jesus the gentle shepherd”
All true—but incomplete.
John 1:1 reveals:
Jesus the eternal God.
Jesus the uncreated Word.
Jesus the cosmic Lord.
Jesus the Alpha before the beginning.
Your mindset becomes:
“My Jesus is bigger than I thought.”
This ignites worship.

5. It prepares your heart for the Latter Rain.
The Latter Rain is not primarily about power—it’s about revelation of Jesus.
John 1:1 trains your mind to see:
• His supremacy
• His eternality
• His deity
• His glory
When you read Scripture with that mindset, your heart becomes:
• soft
• hungry
• trembling
• expectant
This is the soil the Latter Rain falls on.
Your mindset becomes:
“Lord, reveal Yourself. I want the real You.”

6. It breaks self‑centered reading.
Without John 1:1, we read Scripture like:
• “What does this do for me?”
• “How does this help my day?”
• “What blessing can I claim?”
But John 1:1 shifts you to:
“Who is Jesus?
What is His nature?
What is His glory?
How do I align with Him?”
This is the mindset of discipleship.

7. It creates a “Just Jesus” mindset.
You asked for a system where the mind becomes laser‑focused on Christ.
John 1:1 is the ignition point.
When you read the Bible through this verse, your inner dialogue changes:
• “Jesus is the center.”
• “Jesus is the meaning.”
• “Jesus is the message.”
• “Jesus is the Word.”
• “Jesus is God.”
Your mindset becomes:
“I want nothing but Him.”
This is the mindset of the remnant.

In short: John 1:1 transforms your Bible reading by transforming your vision of Jesus.
It moves you from:
• casual → reverent
• scattered → focused
• self‑centered → Christ‑centered
• informational → transformational
• earthly → eternal
• shallow → burning
It is the verse that makes you read the Bible with fire, fear of the Lord, and single‑minded devotion.

Spiritual Nutrition
“The Spirit of the Lord goes in you as you read — it’s spiritual nutrition,” a reality the Bible itself points to again and again. Let’s open that up in a way that strengthens your Latter Rain mindset and your “Just Jesus” foundation.

1. Scripture is not just information — it is Spirit‑breath.
When you read the Word, you’re not just taking in ideas. You’re receiving Spirit‑breathed life.
The Word carries:
• God’s breath
• God’s presence
• God’s voice
• God’s nature
So reading Scripture becomes a spiritual inhaling.
Your mindset shifts from:
• “I’m studying”
to
• “I’m receiving life.”
This is why your spirit feels fed, strengthened, awakened.

2. The Word is spiritual food — real nourishment for the inner man.
Jesus said that we live not by bread alone but by every word that comes from God.
That means:
• Your spirit has a metabolism.
• Your inner life has hunger.
• Your soul needs fuel.
• Scripture is that fuel.
When you read, something in you is literally fed, strengthened, fortified, expanded.
This is why:
• your mind clears
• your heart softens
• your desires shift
• your spirit awakens
It’s nutrition.

3. The Spirit uses the Word as fire, light, and power.
When you read Scripture with an open heart, the Spirit doesn’t just inform you — He forms you.
The Word becomes:
• fire that burns away impurity
• light that exposes lies
• water that refreshes
• seed that grows
• hammer that breaks hardness
• sword that cuts away what doesn’t belong
This is why reading the Bible changes you even when you don’t “feel” anything.
The Spirit is working beneath the surface.

4. This is the Latter Rain mechanic: Word + Spirit = transformation.
The Latter Rain is not just an outpouring of power — it is an outpouring of revelation.
When you read Scripture:
• the Spirit softens your heart
• the Spirit ignites your hunger
• the Spirit awakens the fear of the Lord
• the Spirit aligns your mind with Christ
• the Spirit prepares you for outpouring
This is why the remnant always returns to the Word before revival breaks out.
The Word is the soil.
The Spirit is the rain.
Together they produce harvest.

5. “The Spirit goes in you as you read” — here’s what that means in practice
A. Your mind is renewed
Old patterns break.
New patterns form.
You begin to think like Jesus.
B. Your desires shift
You want what He wants.
You lose appetite for what drains you.
C. Your spirit strengthens
You become resilient.
Temptation loses power.
Discernment sharpens.
D. Your heart burns
Love increases.
Reverence deepens.
The fear of the Lord awakens.
E. Your focus narrows
Distractions fall away.
Your inner voice says:
“Just Jesus.”

6. This is why Scripture is essential to your Christian readiness training.
Every time you read:
• you are fed
• you are cleansed
• you are aligned
• you are strengthened
• you are prepared
The Spirit uses the Word to make you a vessel He can fill.
This is spiritual nutrition for the remnant.

 

[NewCreation435]

I do in depth studies of God's Word every few weeks and try to read it everyday. No, I don't think I am in it enough.

 

[SetFree]

The study tools that have helped me stay focused the most is the 19th century British Bible scholar's KJV study Bible called The Companion Bible. I don't agree with some things he believed (like a pre-trib rapture that became popular in Britain in his era). But the majority of his side margin notes are on scholarly documented level, and not simply opinion. And while reading the KJV text, he put a mark on essential words in the text that point to other Bible Scripture, or historical events, Bible archaeology, etc. That forces you to go slow in study, and checkout other Bible witnesses on the subject of that particular KJV text. Just the huge amount of scholarly documented information from The Bible contained in the Appendixes is enough to own a copy of this study Bible.

Another study tool is The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. It's a type of concordance, but what it does is whatever the subject of a verse is about that you are studying, it shows other places in The Bible that point to that same verse subject. So it's really a type of 'parallel verse concordance'.

Then of course a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, but beware that later editions have been intentionally corrupted. The best editions are prior to 1991.

Those are the minimum Bible study tools I recommend. BibleSoft used to have those tools in their software, but I'm not sure if they are still in business.


Bible study will reward based on what one puts into its study, just as with any other subject. If all one does is just scan a verse here, and a verse there, they won't get it. And I feel comfortable saying that our Heavenly Father doesn't like His Word treated that way. Another thing is too, only GOD by The Holy Spirit can give the Bible student to understand it properly. It was written through The Holy Spirit, and The Holy Spirit is required to reveal its Truths. That is why proper understanding in it is closed off to the unbeliever, and also to believers that don't study it properly per GOD's method (line upon line, chapter by chapter, verse by verse).

 

[Oseas]

Speaking of Bible study, remember that AN END,THE END COMES UPON THE 4 CORNERS OF EARTH

Matthew 24:6-8
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the END is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Isaiah 26:17-21
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.


21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


Romans 2:5-16
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgment of GOD;

6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

9 Tribulation and anguish,upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good,to the Jew first,and also to the Gentile:

11 For there is no respect of persons with GOD.

12 For as many as have sinned without law(the Gentiles) shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law(the Jews) shall be judged by the law;

13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before GOD, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another

16 In the Day when GOD shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.-This Day arrived, the Lord's Day, the seventh and last Day or seventh and last millennium->Matthew 25:31-34, take a look, and 41 and 46.


Revelation 11:15-18

18->And the NATIONS were(will be)angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Be prepared or else get ready - Matthew 25:6-10