Just Keep Reading, Pt. 3

How to get the 

MOST

out of your scriptures!

How do I have good scripture studies where I actually feel engaged and am learning something?

So there is a story about a 14 year old boy who had a QUESTION.

         "Which church should I join?"

So guess what he did?

       He turned to the scriptures, of course. And in his own words, this is what he said.

"11 While I was laboring under the extreme difficulties caused by the contests of these parties of religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 

12 Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible."

I promise, in the name of Jesus Christ, that if you have a question, the Lord can and will answer it through the scriptures. 

        Just don't stop reading if it doesn't come right away! 

1. So the first step in getting the most out of the scriptures is to start with a question.
2. Then talk to the Lord. Pray and ask that he may guide you in your studies.
3. Start to read.
4. Show that you care what our Father is saying by writing the revelation he's giving you.
5. Don't forget to give gratitude to the one who gave you the answer to your question! - End with a prayer.

I close with my testimony, that I know the Lord lives and he answers prayers. He really cares.