Highlight what sticks out

This one is very basic - take a highlighter and just start highlighting everything that sticks out to you as you read. The goal here is to just pay attention to how your spirit, heart, and mind are responding to the Word.

After highlighting what sticks out, go back through and pray over the highlighted text and talk to God to figure out why the highlighted text stuck out. Is God revealing something about Himself to you? Is He revealing something about how the world was designed to work or how it's brokenness functions? Is God showing you a command you need to obey? Think of what questions rise up from these highlighted passages and pray these questions to God.

Your spirit seems to pass thoughts on to your mind. So the thoughts you think could be coming from God, even when you can't easily put into words what is being communicated.

Consider using this exercise when you need to work on hearing the Spirit speak to your spirit so you can hopefully become more aware of when He speaks to you.