Set apart at least ten minutes (longer if possible) each day. Choose an hour for study when your mind is clearest. The writer finds the first thing in the morning, his best time. May the first four words in the Bible be your motto, “In the beginning God.” THE Lord God has given me the *tongue* of the learned, *that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary*: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. _Isaiah 50:4._ AT that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and *hast revealed them unto babes*. _Matthew 11:25._ AND now, brethren, I commend you to *God*, and to the *word* of His *grace*, which is *able* to *build* you *up*, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. _Acts 20:32_ STUDY to *shew thyself approved unto God*, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, *rightly dividing the word of truth*. _II Timothy 2:15_ Scriptures, The. *How to study them.* *1st*. When you open your Bible never forget that *it is God’s word*, not man’s word. FOR this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye receive the word of God which ye heard of us, ye receive it *not as the word of men*, but as it is in truth, *the word of God*, which effectually worketh also in you that *believe*. _I Thessalonians 2:13._ FOR the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but *holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost*. _II Peter 1:21._ *2nd.* Read your Bible as if it were written for *you only*. FOR whatsoever things were written aforetime were written *for our learning*, that *we through patience* and *comfort of the scriptures might have hope*. _Romans 15:4._ ALL *scripture* is given *by inspiration of God*, and is profitable for *doctrine*, for *reproof*, for *correction*, for *instruction* in righteousness. _II Timothy 3:16._ *3rd*. Study with *prayer*, making the *psalmist’s prayer* yours. OPEN thou *mine eyes*, that I may behold *wondrous things* out of *thy law*. _Psalms 119:18._ *4th*. Study with *meditation* expecting help, comfort, blessing and success in living for God.