How the Lord Speaks Pt. 3

Comprehensive Reading

What is Comprehensive Reading?

Comprehensive Reading is when you go verse by verse, chapter by chapter, section by section. It’s to get an overarching theme, or an overall view of chapter or book.

Joshua 11:15 “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.”

Acts 20:27 “For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.”

How Does Comprehensive reading help you to hear the voice of God?

When you decide to read comprehensively you know God put that verse the you need for the day right there.

-or when you get an answer from God in his word.

-you know that you didnt cherry pick something by going to a certain spot in scripture.

If you aren’t reading comprehensively you will fight yourself thinking that “you’re making things up”, or “that wasn’t God that was me.”

Lets Look how Comprehensive Reading works:

Luke 4:16–19 “And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

How this worked

-every Sabbath day, every young man over the age of twelve that had already had their bar mitzvah was required to go to the local synagogue

-the adult men from that community would take turns reading the portion of scripture for that day

-then the priest or Levite in charge would preach about it

-it was Jesus’ turn and he read this out of Isaiah 61.

If you don’t know where to start, start where God starts. Find a Reading plan.