The Bible Reading Order That Actually Changes You
Most Christians read the Bible randomly and wonder why they're not growing.
Here's the battle-tested reading plan that builds warriors, not wanderers:
Phase 1: Learn How to Fight
Start with 1 Peter. It'll teach you what suffering as a Christian actually means. It'll kill your selfish ambition and show you why following God for personal gain is spiritual suicide.
Then hit these in order:
1 & 2 Corinthians (church mess and how to fix it)
Ephesians (spiritual warfare manual)
Philippians (joy in prison)
1 & 2 Thessalonians (end times reality check)
1 & 2 Timothy (leadership under fire)
James (faith that actually works)
2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude (false teachers exposed)
These books don't just tell you stories. They teach you:
How to BE a Christian, not just play one
Who God actually is vs. who you think He is
What He'll do for you (and what He won't)
His promises that never fail
His personality that terrifies demons
Phase 2: Learn How to Worship
Psalms. All of it.
This is where you learn God's emotional range. His fury. His tenderness. His jealousy. His love. This is where you learn to pray like you're in a war zone, because you are.
Phase 3: Learn How to Conquer
Joshua and Judges.
Watch what happens when God's people obey.
Watch what happens when they don't.
Watch how quickly victory becomes defeat when you forget who's really in charge.
This isn't a reading plan for information.
It's a training manual for transformation.
Most "Bible reading plans" are designed to make you feel accomplished.
This one is designed to make you dangerous.
Stop reading Scripture like it's homework.
Start reading it like it's intel for tomorrow's battle.
Your enemy reads it too.
The difference is, he believes it.
Time you did the same.
Hello !
You might just need this.
Please Read.
When you work with a leader or someone that stretches you beyond your comfort zone, and truly wants you to be a better version of yourself,
You have no idea what God is doing for you.
My late mentor, Pastor Eskor Mfon was never really
a professional musician per se, but was a great worshipper and one that had an ear for good music.
He would come into our choir room after we had spent hours rehearsing. He’d sit, cross His legs, rest his jaws on his palm, close his eyes and listen to what we had done. After a while, he’d shake his head, smile and heave an interesting sigh “aaaaahhhh !”, and then say to us “okay okay well done o, but we can’t give God this kind of worship tomorrow, let’s start again…” And believe me, another 2-3 hours of work…. He’d tell us, “you know we can’t take people to a place we have not been to ourselves…”
He would share scriptures, explain what ministry was all about, then sit with us as we slugged it out.
Anyway, those days would later become the foundation of my music ministry today.
Hmmm, There were days I thought “this stress is just too much” just to lead worship ??? But what did I know ? Poor boy ! My eyes opened one day, and I caught it.
The inheritance I got from him was not money and material things, even though he took good care of us. But the values, principles, work ethic, mind shift, wisdom, spiritual intelligence and understanding, emphasis on prayer, word, purity, integrity, character, excellence etc.
Today I honour him everywhere I go, because in hindsight, He was God sent - To a young man who only had talent, but with very little or no sense of direction.
So, to anyone out there, connecting with this post and perhaps in a similar place, I say receive GRACE to maximize the moment. Learn and glean all you can now, never despise the process, instead appreciate and honour it. For not everyone is privileged to have another man or woman who leave their own thing to sit on your matter, just to make sure you excel in life. It is a blessing !
And in case it appears to be taking longer than it should, may be, just maybe. you are cut out for the BIG TIME. And in no distant future we would be reading your own inspiring story.
But Please note ! Only make sure the person or leader is one that meets the criteria above - I.e, one who truly desires to see a better version of you and wants you to fulfill your prophetic destiny. And Not just one who seeks to hijack your life, control it and put in under lock and key.
Blessings
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@Ihunanya_chi Apostle Peter, I love how he had fully given himself to the teachings of a “young Man”, young enough to be his Child. I love his loyalty and ability to never take offense. Following through it all.
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Sin is deeper than how it is pronounced, the consequences of sin are generational and the enemy is never after YOU, he is after your SEED, those generations after you.
Hence Psalm 112:1 - 2 says; "Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed [children/descendants] shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.