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How To Use This Online Study

Casual Bible reading uncovers valuable spiritual facts that lie near the surface. But understanding the deeper truths requires study. To help facilitate your study, we've provided you with a simple way to look up every biblical passage, and record your answers to questions. You will also be able to save your study and print it for future reference if you so desire. You will be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive and versatile Bible online other than the Ten Steps toward Christian Maturity.

Whenever the study requires you to look up a Bible passage, a link will be provided that will open a small window with the required reading. Click on this passage for an example:

John 20:31

Every lesson in this series covers an important topic and gives you an opportunity to record your answers to the questions. This is done with a series of boxes where you can type in your answers; like the one below.

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Once you have completed each lesson, you will be given the opportunity to review, save, and print your study. Be sure to save your work each day!.

Plan to spend a minimum of thirty minutes each day - preferably in the morning - in Bible study, meditation, and prayer.

Remember, the most important objective and benefit of a quiet time or Bible study is not to acquire knowledge or accumulate biblical information, but to meet with God in a loving, personal way.

Here are some suggestions to help you in your study time:

• Plan a specific time and place to work on these studies. Make an appointment with God and keep it.
• Have your Bible with you. If you don't have a Bible, use the Bible passage links that are part of this study. If you wish to buy a Bible, click here.
• Begin with prayer for God's presence, blessing, and wisdom.
• Meditate on the Objective to determine how it fits into your circumstances.
• Memorize the suggested verses.
• Proceed to the Bible Study, trusting God to use it to teach you. Prayerfully anticipate His presence with you. Work carefully, reading the Scripture passages and thinking through the questions. Answer each as completely as possible.
• When you come to the Life Application section, answer the questions honestly and begin to apply them to your own life.
• Prayerfully read through the lesson again and reevaluate your Life Application answers. Do they need changing or adjusting?
• Review the memory verses.
• Consider the Objective again and determine if it has been accomplished. If not, what do you need to do?
• Close with a prayer of thanksgiving, and ask God to help you grow spiritually in the areas He has specifically revealed to you.
• When you complete the first lessons of each study, spend time on the Recap to make sure you understand every lesson thoroughly.
• If you feel you need more study, ask God for wisdom again and go through whatever lesson(s) you need to review, repeating the process until you do understand and are able to apply the truths to your own life.

These studies are intended as a complete development of Christian beliefs. However, a careful study of the material will give you, with God's help, a sufficient understanding of how you can know and apply God's plan for your life. The spiritual truths contained here will help you meet with our Lord Jesus Christ in an intimate way and discover the full and abundant life that Jesus promises. (John 10:10 )

Do not rush through these lessons. Take plenty of time to think through the questions. Meditate on them. Absorb the truths presented, and make the application a part of your life. Give God a chance to speak to you, and let the Holy Spirit teach you. As you spend time with our Lord in prayer and study, and as you trust and obey Him, you will experience the amazing joy of His presence. (John 14:21)

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