In normal friendships, relationships change as you go through different stages and experiences. God never changes, but you do, so your relationship with God today likely doesn't look the same as it did a week, month, year, or decade ago. And that may be just fine!

We should be striving to grow closer to God all the time as we seek after Him with our whole heart. I'm hoping you're reading this because you want to know God more deeply and intimately.

Each of the Bible Study approaches below has helped me grow closer to God. Each was more helpful during some phases in my relationship with God than others. I pray that God may guide your heart and mind as you read through the ideas below, so that you can find an approach that God might bless in the coming days as you seek God more and deepen your relationship with Him.

The approaches below can be used with ANY Bible reading plan. If you already have a plan of what to read, you can incorporate any of these approaches to help you focus on the text more relationally. If you don't have a reading plan, you can check out these reading plans to see if they help you.

• Highlight God in the Bible - Seek God in the pages of the Bible.
• Pray the Bible - Turn Bible reading into a conversation with God.
• Listening to the Bible - Instead of reading the Bible, listen to it.
• Highlight the text based on grammatical concepts - Focus on what the text is saying by highlighting words and sentences based on how they function.
• Write the Bible - Slow down and think through the Bible differently as you write it out
• Fast through the Word - As a reminder of how the Word feeds your soul, replace eating or consuming entertainment with the Word.
• Highlight what sticks out - Just highlight what sticks out to you

• Ask God what He has for you - Ask God to guide your reading