Hello beautiful!! I am Nicki Drake from crazy simple truth and I'm so glad you're here because I
have something so super cool to show you today so I've been looking into Bible
color-coding coke coding coding coding okay first of all the cat got my arm and
I have this scratch and it was like bleeding before I started the video and
oh wait I don't have a cat I don't know what got my arm
anyway have no fear because washi tape is here you guys don't have to look at
my scratch that I scraped and blend okay anyway I have this little Bible study
binder that I made with some really simple instructions for an inductive
Bible study and I haven't really done much with it but I did want to show you
that I made a highlighting guide and this highlighting guide only really
works with like history books in the Bible because it talks about the
characters with good intentions the characters with bad intentions part of a
positive events negative events time transitions locations keywords okay so
that is for like a history type book and it doesn't work I haven't done a lot
with it I did I'm a video a few videos you can get this free by the way I'll
try to link it below but I did a few videos with it how I used it and it
wasn't like my favorite things so I didn't do a lot with it now if you're
doing my book of Ephesians with me you know that I show you a really easy way
to do some really in-depth study studying the original language and
comparing translations using Bible commentary different things like that
but I have been looking into this color coding and so I've been looking at
things on Pinterest and kind of taking people's ideas and I wanted to come up
with my own because I have ADHD my brain wanders I have noticed that when I tried
to highlight a certain color that I spend so much time focusing on if I'm
getting the color right that I don't learn so I thought okay I'm gonna make
this work for me so I have these new pens
if you've seen this video these are pilot FriXion fine tip markers let me
pull them all out here and I'll show you what I'm doing so you probably saw the
thumbnail which is the picture at the front of the video and that might be why
you click on this video so here are my little oop there's a black one somewhere
black pen black pen ok so I made all these little cute labels and I picked
colors that I wanted to go with them all so they all start with the letter P and
I've labeled them all and I ended up doing it differently than what I ended
up labeling it they're coming off I ended up doing it differently so I'm not
going to show you these colors specifically I'm going to show you what
I did with them instead because I started to do this with these colors and
some of the colors stand out more than others
and some of them you're gonna use more often and so I wanted to use certain
colors based on how often I was gonna be using them and what they were gonna look
like on the page and so I ended up redoing from what I had here but here's
the thing that's cool life it out 10 words that start with the letter P so
you need 10 color so let me see if this is all ten of them 2 4 6 8 10 okay you
need 10 colors you do not have to have these pens in fact I actually like the
way that these um paper may enjoy just regular ink pens work because they're
brighter um but I also love my park ooh erasable gel pens because they're
brighter but they erase so these erase which is why I like them when they have
the cute colors and I was able to put stickers on them
I'm a redo these stickers sometime but what I found is when they're in my
little bag I'm not looking at what the sticker says anyway I'm just grabbing
the color so I made myself this awesome little card and I'm telling you this is
so fun I had so much fun doing my Bible study
this way I cannot wait to go through one of the books of the Bible with you to
show you how I do this but I'm gonna just pull out a page here that I did
look at how this is and it was so fun it was so fun
let me check the camera to make sure you guys are seeing what I'm doing yes okay
now look what the black in the little house so I have a symbol and the color
so that at a glance at a quick glance I can see what what my color meant okay
because these pens aren't going to be in my Bible so this way I can see what the
color meant if I don't have my key okay so the black is a little house and it's
the place so here they this is luke 1928 and they were in Jerusalem at the Mount
of Olives and so I drew the little house over here and I circled Jerusalem the
village Mount of Olives so over here I wrote Mount of Olives okay the next one
is orange and it is plan so the place is obvious the plan is anything that God
planned originally that is for Jesus so how do I make sense of that
redemption what's the what's the what's the what's the one that I wrote here I
think I wrote it on here planned that I read it on something the principal's
power hang on plan okay the good news the redemption things like that so I
ended up leaving the orange color the plan so good news redemption salvation
anything like that that's good news about God's plan whether it's concealed
or revealed about Jesus Christ the third one is a heart and it's a promise so
here is my little cross right over here and it says if anyone asks you why are
you untying it say this the Lord needs it so this is a prophecy here where King
David is talking and so that's why I did that in orange and then I just put the
little cross over here okay the the next one is promise and it is a pink heart
and this is anything that shows God's love promise so I've got plant place
plan promise the next one is pollution so this is anything that's sin or evil
or the devil or anything like that so originally
I had principalities as one of my words and I thought you know I would probably
use the read more often than just when we talk about the devil and I really
didn't want to give him his own color because he's just not worth it and so I
just made this completely sin this is anything sinful or evil
so that's pollution so you'll see where I use that here so I would mark it draw
my little circle with the cross out and then right over here what it was okay
the next one is pain so in this particular passage there wasn't any pain
but I also did a page in Psalms and you can see where David had a lot of
different things that he was talking about pain and so that's what I did
there so I didn't use the pain in this so you
won't use them all on every passage but that's okay the next one is praise and
that is yellow and yellow does not show up very good in your Bible but what you
can do is use a highlighter and highlight the praise in yellow and then
you don't have to write anything over here because it's obvious that it's
praise so let me go back to this one that I did in Psalms and I'll show you
what I'm talking about here so I just put like a yellow box
around it I actually didn't have my highlighter the day that I did this but
I very easily could highlight around the whole thing too now because it wasn't
just praise I used some other colors so I just put a box around it because there
were other meanings to some of the words in there and then I drew these little
asterisks so this is just showing you that it's praise it's exciting it's
wonderful it's praising God and so that's what I did with that letter P
with that color prayer look at the little dude he's praying is he not cute
okay so this is green prayer it's a dark green so Jesus wept over the city and so
I let's see where's my little prayer guide right here as he approached and
saw the city he wept over it and I thought you know if Jesus is walking up
and onto this city and he's seeing what he's seen and he's crying over the city
he is praying he is crying out to God and so that's a good example for us
we see how Jesus prayed and so that's why I wanted to draw this little guy
pray and then I can put the note over there the next one is power this is a
king's crown obviously and this is all things God's attributes so this is all
things powerful about God his name's Lord Jesus Savior I am
beloved I mean all of his different things that we can call him the king the
Lord the Blessed One God Jesus Lord him he was teaching Jesus he teacher him
detecting their craftiness the reason why I did that one is because he's so
powerful he's so God that he can detect their craftiness and so that's why
there's no right or wrong here like you can do whatever you want so that's why I
did that one and then I just did this for fun the King and then I just draw
little crowns every so often by them so that I know that's what I'm talking
about it's like over here you'll see where it says Jesus was teaching and
then it goes on and then it says Jesus teaching and then it goes on detects
their craftiness okay the next P so these are 10 P's a Bible
color-coding and I absolutely am in love with this the next P is principles so
these are laws commands rules to live by principles for life and I did a blue
heart because they are important God's promises and his love are important and
what what we need to do - what we need to live by are important and so those
are going to be the light blue and you can see where I don't have any of those
on this particular study there were none that I could come up with anyway like I
said there's no right or wrong answer but here I have one over here I need to
keep the ways of the Lord on my mind so I can keep myself from sinning and then
this one says I must be faithful blameless and pure so on that whole page
those are the only ones that I came up with that were principles to live by so
that you can see where some passages will not have these on them the last one
is people and this just is a little light green guy and when you're doing
history books like this you can see where you use people and places a lot
and so I have a whole lot of little people
marked off and drawn and then if you kind of read through it you'll see that
it goes kind of in a story so their map Mount of Olives Jesus he's talking to
the disciples and the Pharisees in the village there's a donkey there's
miracles the Lord the king the Blessed One the Pharisees are complaining Jesus
wept over the city Jesus has planned concealed so this is
David's prophecy about Jesus and that's his plan so I put the cross with the
orange the Pharisees are doing hit are being hypocrites and so that is sin the
temple complex is the place those selling in the temple those are the
people down here den of thieves so Jesus called the the den of thieves and so all
of this is in red taught in the temple so that's his plan that's his plan he
was he was made to teach in the temple and teach his people this thing now you
could have also made that his power but I made it his plan there's no right or
wrong and then there's the leaders the people and he wanted to just they wanted
to destroy him so that is sin too so that's the way I did it I absolutely
love it now let me tell you something these are not my absolute favorite pens
and they don't write free right so over here I actually ended up using either my
Park who gel pen or my ink Joy Paper Mate Paper Mate ink joy paper mini joy
and I traced over this to make it brighter because I didn't like the way
it looked now I was in the laundromat when we were
doing this because we live in an apartment but so I didn't have all my
tools with me but you could do that use the highlighters I'm instead of the so
like there was no dark blue on this one so I'd have to go over here where I had
dark blue and then I could do like the ropes of death I could use my blue
highlighter because David was sad that's a pretty dark highlighter but you can
still see through it so you could use a highlighter you could use these pens the
reason why I like to write what the erasable pens first is in case I mess up
because I have ADHD my brain wanders and so I mess
a lot so I like these and then it seems kind of like a waste of time but I guess
it just helps me meditate more on his word when I take one of these darker
colors and trace over it so it wasn't a big deal to me another thing you could
use our Crayola twistable you could use just regular old cheap colored pencils
let me see if I can find one right here so for the orange I could have did this
instead of with a highlighter I could have just used a colored pencil which
obviously is erasable which is handy so I cannot wait to go through a book of
the Bible with you at this process it's so fun so fun so fun so fun and I'll
tell you that you still could do this in depth because there were some words that
I came across I think it was when I was doing Psalms and I thought wow I'd love
to know what that this is @ HC sb so I remember thinking I'd love to know what
that the King James Version says in that or I'd love to know what the original
language says in that there was one word delights he delights wears it that he
sees me he's faith those billina's pure somewhere I don't know where it is but
somewhere it says that he delights in us and so I thought delight I would love to
look that up I didn't do it because I was at the laundromat
I didn't have my little app with me that I could look up the original language or
compare the versions but you can still do the in-depth study so you could still
learn about who was writing this book who they were writing to you could
research the history of the people of that time you could look up certain
words and compare them with other versions but it's just a super fun way
super visual super hands-on I think it's great for people who are visual learners
who are tactical learners just just a great way to really dig into it I think
this would be great for kids there's no right or wrong so you can't go wrong
whatever color you use you can't go wrong you just try the best that you can
to do that the things that you have so like my 13 year old son has autism and
he's delayed in some areas in some areas he's completely
advanced and so maybe for Bible study for him something that I could do is
teach him to do the people and the place and maybe we could do the praise and so
he could go through and find those things and he could put the circles and
whatever and then you know as as I taught him this more than I could
advance that more and so I mean one that he could do really easily would be power
so anytime he heard the name of God or his power like here it says he part of
the heavens he's soaring on the wings of the wind
like that's God's power and so you could use this for anyone I think it's great I
can't wait to use it let me know if you have a color coding system and what your
system is what color you use for what and remember that we will do some more
with this the 10 piece of Bible study color coding and I made it up I'm almost
positive I made it all completely up like it was totally just me thinking
this through so some of the other some of the icons I suppose you could find
somewhere else I think Kay Arthur teaches inductive
study with some icons and I don't know if I used any of her or not
I think the crown might have been I can't remember but anyway I just got I
got ideas from all different things on Pinterest and I made up the 10 piece so
and the colors I just chose based on like how I thought they would look on
the page together so there you go hope you love it I can't wait to do more of