This is Billy Graham’s Bible reading plan:
Read 5 Psalms every day.
** Multiply today’s date by times 5, and that will give you the psalm you should read today and the four previous Psalms. So if today is the 10th of the month, 10 times 5 is 50 , which means that you should be reading Psalms 46-50. So in a 30-day month one can get through the Psalms. In a 31-day month, save Psalm 119 (its that long psalm that is the longest chapter in the Bible) for the 31st day.
Read 1 chapter of Proverbs every day. There are 31 chapters in Proverbs so one can get through that book once a month too. So if today is November 10, so read Proverbs 10. Proverbs will teach you about wisdom, anger, dealing with difficult people, money, temptation, humility, God's will, and a myriad of practical things.
** The combination is wonderful. Psalms feeds one’s soul and Proverbs will feed one’s mind. Psalms speaks to us about our relationship with God and Proverbs will speak to us about our relationships with people.
Read 5 chapters in daily reading through the Bible. If one reads 5 chapters a day, a person can read through the Bible in a year this way. Try in it in a different Bible translation each year (RSV, KJV, NIV, NASB, NKJV, The Message, ESV, TEV, and many others.
Spend several minutes in prayer:
· praising God
· confessing sin
· remembering others
· giving the Lord your needs, problems, loneliness, and hurts.
Meditate on the goodness of God. Write down what you learn from God in a journal. If you journal the inspirations you get from God, you will be able to go back and re-read them for furtherstudy and your ministry.
End each devotional time with a hymn or song.
All this takes will take an hour a day. But you will more productive, more enthusiastic, more kind and loving to others, and more able to handle the daily irritations of modern life. Martin Luther once said: "I am so busy that I will have to pray an extra couple hours to get my work done." Your days and nights will seem to go better if one is drawing on the strength of God. When you get down, you might find that there is a direct correlation between neglecting your devotional time and your discouragement.
Commit to this plan and it will change your life!
