Questions to ask yourself while reading the Bible during your devotion time...

Questions to ask yourself when reading the Bible during your devotion time

1. What is revealed about God in this story?

2. What is the main point of the story?

3. What character do you relate to the most in the story? Why?

4. In what ways do you relate to each of the different characters found in the Story; whether protagonists or antagonists?

5. What is God be speaking to you through this story? What is God trying to affirm in you about who you are as His child through this story?

6. What areas of life may God be calling you to move forward in?

7. What sin areas may there be in your life that God is using this story to cause you to confess?

8. How do you think this story might cause you to more fully experience the healing, freedom and life Jesus came to offer us?

9. What is the "call to action" for me or the church to accomplish?

Compiled from "A story approach to understanding scripture" by Mark Krick with some additional points added by me, Bill Meli.

My example after reading Hebrews 11:8-12:

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹ And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. ¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

 1. What is revealed about God in this story? Sometimes God calls us by faith, to do something, or to go somewhere, that we don't fully understand in the beginning. Walking by faith in the land of obedience takes faith and determination.

2. What is the main point of the story? God calls us to do impossible things that can only be accomplished by faith and trust in God.

3. What character do you relate to the most in the story? Why? Sarah, she held onto God's promises when it looked like all hope was gone.

4. In what ways do you relate to each of the different characters found in the Story; whether protagonists or antagonists? Sarah realized that God did not give up on her even when the world did and she impacted future generations!

5. What is God be speaking to you through this story? What is God trying to affirm in you about who you are as His child through this story? God calls us to obey and to "go" without giving us the whole picture. God wants me to develop my "faith muscles" and to get to the point where I don't care where He takes me as long as He is the one guiding me there.

6. What areas of life may God be calling you to move forward in? God is faithful to the promises He has given my family. I need specific promises from God, from the Bible, that I need to believe God for. Jesus asked God to answer specific prayer requests when He was here on earth; I need to be more specific as well.

7. What sin areas may there be in your life that God is using this story to cause you to confess? I need to move in instant obedience and not allow a debate in my mind. God knows more than I do and His commands are for my benefit. God has the benefit of seeing my entire life in one thought so His commands are for my benefit.

8. How do you think this story might cause you to more fully experience the healing, freedom and life Jesus came to offer us? God is taking me and my family to a land of greater promise and my obedience will have results on generations to come.

9. What is the "call to action" for me or the church to accomplish? This experience I am going through is temporal. Follow God through instant obedience even when I can't see the big picture.

 What are some other questions do you ask yourself after reading the Bible?