Hello beautiful, Nicki here from crazy simple truth ministries and I'm so glad you're here
today because today I want to talk about basic Bible study supplies with absolute
basic what you have to have so the very first thing of course first of all let
me tell you that if you are a Christian a true Christian a Christian a Christian
who reads their Bible a Christian who believes that Christ died for their sins
a Christian who spends their time as much as we humanly can because we are
sinners by nature as much as we human we can't please in Christ that is what I'm
talking about today so if you are then you are to be a student of God's Word
you were to be a student and when you were in school if you think about it
there were basic supplies you need that's why you had it back to school
list and you always had textbooks of some kind okay well you only need one
textbook here for this you need the Bible you need the Word of God and so my
suggestion for a very basic basic and this I had for my first 10 years of
being a Christian and this is a Study Bible I didn't know people had more than
one Bible and that they use them for different things and so this was the
only Bible I had this Bible got me through so much it has been such an
incredible Bible I'm gonna link it below it's a quest Study Bible this is an NIV
and older NIV version you can get other different translations this is a great
Bible so that is an absolute necessity you have to have the Word of God you
have to have the textbook in order to study his word and are a Christian you
study his word that's period that's all there is to it you read and study God's
Word if you are Christian that's that's that's what God calls us to do he calls
us to read his word to meditate on his laws he calls us to and so if we are
calling ourselves a Christians a Christian that's what we should be doing
so that is the most important thing now can you have an app that has the Bible
on it absolutely it's free you don't have to have a Bible in fact online you
can get all different translations you can get study Bibles you can get free
apps you can pay for apps there's tons of options if you are more of an
electronic kind of girl but I like down my hands on things I'm a touchy-feely
person and I'm a creative person it's all love to be able
to add my colorful notes and my post-it notes and things like that to my Bible
so study Bible number one most important thing number
two no but you think that when you're in
school what did you have that you hadn't had paper you had a textbook and you had
a paper you have something to take notes on right okay let me find it I didn't
really have my pile how long just a lot of times I use this old clipboard and I
use loose leaf paper that you can get at especially back-to-school time for like
a quarter like awesome I like to use loose leaf paper so when I juice loose
leaf paper then I will a lot of times store it in my Bible study and prayer
binder you can get my hair is on everything any of the else shed all the
time you can get this for free there is a whole like 11 pages I think of free
tabs and they each have each front of it has a little introduction to what's in
that section so I've been using this for a long time this is where I keep my
loose leaf paper now if you want to study with a notebook that is totally
fine so you need a book and you need a notebook or paper and I get these also
at back-to-school time and I love to get these back to school because they're so
cheap if not you could totally go to Dollar Tree to get yourself some
notebooks um these are great I like loose leaf paper because I can tear it
up and throw it out if it doesn't work if I didn't you know I messed up or
whatever and in the notebook you have all those little fringy things and so
it's just not as easy but I do actually most of my Bible study I would say maybe
half and half in a notebook or loose-leaf the other option then is hang
on the other option is to have a note-taking Bible so this is brand new I
told you that I was going to talk about this in a video upcoming actually I
think I have a video that I'm gonna post before this that I show it so I'm not
gonna talk about it cuz I already got a video I already made it just haven't
posted it yeah it takes a long time it takes a long time to record to edit to
upload to put in the description box all the leaks
and all the information it takes a very long time but God's worth it so I spend
my time extra time doing that but anyway here is what you can do if you don't
want to write in a book you can write in a journaling Bible so it gives you room
to take notes if you don't want to write in the note taking section you can do
post-it notes um if some of you have heard of a tip-in
you could tape in with like some washi tape a little bookmark type paper and
put your notes in there but that's an option for that so if you don't want to
take notes on paper you want to actually take notes in your Bible that is an
option for you so you're gonna need a book you're gonna need somewhere to take
notes now what are you gonna need next well you're gonna need this is my little
this is new this is gonna drive me crazy if I don't cut this off so you don't
have to wait just a second okay but this is kind of new not new my daughter just
gave it to me that she had it for some time so this little pencil carrier um
this is what I've been putting my supplies in if I'm just doing like a
basic Bible study so daily I've been going in and doing this new Bible study
system and I so I have been doing that during the day when I'm out in the
living room with the little one and so um if she's playing independently then I
can take my Bible and just take this little package of these things and so
this is what got me thinking about this video is what do I absolutely need cuz I
have a lot of different supplies I have a ton of different pens and highlighters
what do I absolutely need so this is the next thing you need somewhere to store
your things your absolute necessity so I can take this to church with me my
daughter my oldest daughter not all started middle daughter just gave it to
me she didn't need it anymore and I thought okay cool I can take it to
church with me too so that's awesome instead happen to dig into my purse or
my pens so that's something you don't have to have but it's so much handier
you could take this to church you could take this to your Bible study group you
could carry this if you're going to sit on your bed and study your Bible it's
just a good idea and you could also could keep this in that big notebook if
you wanted to um the other thing is a pencil and a pen so I don't have a pen
that doesn't bleed through if you know of a pen that doesn't bleed through I
don't mean bleed through even shadow even ghost okay I've heard micron pens
are archival pants are great for Bibles and I used to use them back in the
Creative Memories scrapbooking day books I have in my closet I have a scrapbook
for years and years and years not that way anyway but I had tons of those pens
I don't need more so I don't know if it goes through or not so let me know in
the comments if you know if there is a pen that does not show through on the
other side because I definitely want to get one but this one I love because it's
very precise so my husband has a bit of a pen addiction
he works in like law enforcement and he writes reports a lot so he loves that
pens and so he has he has random ones that I'll be like snag and try it and
this one has very very fine tips so I love that because I can write little
tiny on my post-it notes pencil is great because it's not gonna bleed through you
can erase it if you mess up and so it's a good thing if you want to write in
your Bible or even on your notes so a pen or a pencil some sort of writing
utensil the next thing is highlighters you do not have to have these and you do
not have to highlight in your Bible but you can highlight on your notes or you
can take notes with colored pens instead of highlighters so these are my absolute
necessity these are through purple planner love these highlighters used to
hate them used to hate them they are a bit messy kind of not messy but they're
waxy they're a bit waxy um but they just flow smoothly and I love them so these
go in my absolute necessities Bible study bag the other thing I have in here
is post-it notes and that's because I can take notes on these and put them in
my Bible even if you didn't use a journaling Bible you could put these in
your Bible and it wouldn't cover up the words so you could you know put it in
the margin and wouldn't cover it up you can open it or you can take it off
really easily so these are great too so those are absolute necessities now let
me tell you one more thing that if I if this is all I had if this is all I can
have what I will bring what I would have and that is um the strongest concordance
app so the Strong's Concordance I need to do another video it's been a
long time and show you exactly how I use it it is a necessity for me it's not a
necessity but I love it I love it I love it I love when I can look up the
original language definition because the Bible wasn't written by Americans in
English and so I love to look at the original language definition and that is
how I do that use that tool you can also use a lexicon but I find that a bit
confusing and the strongest concordance app is free and I use that so that's
something I use almost daily in my Bible study and I have been studying my Bible
daily I have needed I have so needed it and so that is what I've been doing um
the other thing that I like to have is access to the Internet this isn't an
absolute necessary either is strongest concordance all you need is a Bible
paper and writing utensil that's it that's all you need Bible paper writing
utensil let me tell you why let's back up a minute let me tell you why if you
are a Christ following Christian it you and the Holy Spirit in you and you know
if you do you know if you do it's never like hmm do I have the Holy Spirit no
you have the Holy Spirit in you if you follow Christ if you live by your Bible
if you don't live by what your pastor or your priest or your preacher tells you
if you live by what the Bible tells you what God communicates to you you are
most likely a Christ follower a Christian I don't know maybe not there
are other people who read the Bible and don't quite understand it I don't know
but if you have the Holy Spirit in you spirit in you you know it I'm not gonna
get into all that today you know he's there and he is a teacher God put part
of God his not in part of God it's all of God that God is a part of God it's
that's confusing to God Father God Son God the Holy Spirit we have an oyster in
us so we have part of God in us and he can teach us and guide us in everything
we need to know we have all of the wisdom from him that we need to study
the Bible so we don't need internet or apps all we need is the Word of God
paper pencil let's write it down and the Holy Spirit that's all we need
he's wiser than any sort of Bible scholar there is so you've got him um
but but I do like to have access to the Internet because then I can look on
other translations of the Bible and compare them so the Bible was written in
different languages in different eras thousands of years ago and sometimes
it's translated a little bit differently in different Bible
translations Bible versions and so it's fun to compare those and see how the
wording is different and then I take that to my Strong's Concordance and
figure out if one of the word stands out to me if I can define it so I know this
is confusing if you're a beginner but just know all you need is a Bible paper
pencil and the Holy Spirit that's it that's all you need that's the absolute
necessity the absolute necessity and I'm gonna try to do a video coming up of
what I personally use when I'm studying the Bible so you know because I am since
I started this ministry I have an accent I have access to a lot more things that
I didn't have before but I just want you to know for 10 years for 10 years
this was all I had I had this I had a pen and I had the Holy Spirit and I went
to Bible study groups at my church um that's what I had so don't worry if you
don't have the other things but someday coming up I will try to do a video of
the things that I use I want you to know that a lot of times I say in my videos
I'm gonna do a video on that or again I wanted to start a podcast I wanted to do
this with the little one and I'm and and so I'm trying now to say I'm gonna try
to because God has me on a path where he wants me and sometimes I get ideas that
aren't necessarily in line with his plan for me and so I need to start saying I
I'm hoping to do this if it's God's will if this is where God leads me right now
God has me writing a book so that is what my extra time before my husband
comes first God comes first my husband comes next my children come next
I'm unless obviously they need something they can't do for themselves then they
come before my husband but that's the order of my life that's the order that
God calls it to be that's the order my life and then after that after that then
I have time for my ministry and right now in my ministry I'm writing a book
God God said no to the podcast he said no that's not where I want you right now
and went you're writing this book there are women who are hungry for the word
for hungry for the Word of God and they need you to show them the way and so
that is what I'm doing so I will try to make a video coming up with my my
specific Bible study supplies that I use so I
won't say today be watching for that because I don't know if it's coming but
if it's God's will and he puts it on my heart I will because I think that you
would like to know what I use what I personally use so I will see you later
you're beautiful God loves you make sure you let me know what kind of pen you use
and I also would love to know what kind of colored pencil or highlighter that
you use I want to know your favorite sorry I've learned so much from you
ladies in the comments I've learned so much about what you use and then I look
into it I'm like oh yeah that's a great idea so I apologize do you have be able
to see my eyes in this whole video I have my glasses on hmm
probably should've taken them off sorry um anyway I've learned a lot from your
comments so let me know what kind of pens and colored pencils highlighters
whatever it is that you use in your Bible study what do you think is
necessary what are your top 5 things what are your top 5 Bible study
necessities and I'll see you later bye you're beautiful