I love this 30 day challenge that Leah  has on her blog.  It is an encouragement to read your bible everyday.  I used to struggle with this a great deal, however I begin praying a couple of years ago now that God would give me a love for his Word.  Now, I have always loved God's Word-without it I would simply be lost, however, I didn't always LOVE reading it.  I would do my obligation read when I could and go on.  Now the Lord still spoke to me through it many times but it wasn't what my heart longed for.  I wanted to thirst for it.  I wanted to not be able to hardly put it down, like when your reading a great book of some other kind.  So I began to pray for a love for the Word, and guess what- God gave it!  I started reading the message from Genesis 1 and you know I fell so in love with the stories-I have now read Genesis-2nd Kings- all of Psalms, All of the gospels in the New Testament and Proverbs at least twice.  I'm loving it.  At first I thought it must be the Message version that made such a difference but I find I can pick up any version and I still love to read it-that is the Lord for sure! Somedays I only get in 5 minutes but somedays when my husband gives me free time to do whatever I want or he takes the kids out I have been known to read for over an hour.  It has really helped me to put away the schedules.  I had tried so many bible reading schedules but always felt I was behind, once I ditched those I had freedom to read when I could.  Sometimes I don't get as much in as I would like.  So I thought I would do this challenge and it would help me stay accountable even more!  We make time for everything else when we need to and this is a great way to start a new habit in making time for God first!  Come join Leah and do the 30 day bible reading challenge.                             

Hopefully I will be catching up some great things about convention and I want to tell you more about a personal Bible study I have started my Beth Moore this week-I know it will help me in my reading as well!

Angela