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If you have not already noticed, there will be fewer and fewer instructions and plans for your study over the next two weeks. You have all the basic skills for Bible study from the previous eight weeks, it is time that you put them into practice. For the next two weeks you will be studying the book of Jeremiah. It would be a really good idea to find out some information about the time period, author and recipients of this book. Jeremiah is important to you because it is a picture of a faithful servant that lived in a time when not many people followed God. Jeremiah had many great blessings from God, but also many difficulties with some of the people around him. As you read Jeremiah, learn all you can about what God requires of those called to ministry and what it means to follow God in your calling.

Pray this simple request: "God teach me today more about you and how I can follow you."

Jeremiah 1

Read carefully, listening to the Holy Spirit.

STUDY
Highlight and/or underline your Bible. Write questions that you may have in your journal.

MEDITATE
Spend time listening to the Holy Spirit. Record what you hear.

EVALUATE
You can learn from continuing to journal that you have experiences, victories, and struggles like Jeremiah. Spend some time looking back over your journal from the past week. What do you see happening in your spiritual life?

What does God seem to be teaching you? What other patterns, trends, etc. do you notice?

PRAY
Spend some time in open, honest prayer with God, talking with Him, responding to Him, and loving Him.

Title your Bible study.

God teach me today more about you and how I can follow you.

Jeremiah 2

STUDY
Highlight and/or underline in your Bible. Record your thoughts in your journal. Write out any questions you may have.

MEDITATE
Meditate on today's passage, recording your thoughts.

Circle key words. Listen to the Holy Spirit. Record your thoughts in your journal.

EVALUATE
Evaluate today's Bible study. Do your findings check out against scripture?

PRAY
Spend some time in open, honest prayer. Look back at the prayer instructions from the first few days to make sure you haven't slacked off in any area of prayer over the last few days. Record your thoughts in your journal.

Title your Bible study.

Jeremiah 3

STUDY
Study your Bible the same way you did yesterday. Record your thoughts in your journal.

Here are some other study techniques to help you better understand the scripture you read: Try two of them.

1. Read the margins/footnotes. If you have a study Bible (a Bible that has notes and study helps), you may find some of the scripture that you read is explained either in the margins or footnotes (at the bottom of the page).

2. Cross-reference. Some Bibles provide cross-references for the passage you are reading. Cross-references are suggested verses for additional reading. For example, if you are reading a quote from Paul, you may read a "cross-reference" for another verse that sounds like or has the same topic as the verse you are reading. Cross-reference Bibles mark their notes in different ways. Typically there is a number or a letter near a verse and that number or letter matches the same symbol somewhere else on the page where the cross-reference verse is marked. You can check the front of your Bible to see if cross-references are included in your Bible. If so, practice using them .

3. Use your concordance. Many Bibles have concordances, reference sections where you can look up key words and find a list of verses dealing with that subject. Reading those verses may give you additional insight into what you are reading.

4. Read the same passage of scripture in another translation or version. Different versions of the Bible (i.e. Holman Christian Standard Bible, King James, New American Standard, New International Version, Contemporary English Version, The Message, etc.) use different words to express the same message. Reading several versions of the same scripture may help you think about the scripture that you read in a different way.

Journal any questions that your Bible study raises.

MEDITATE
Using previous Bible studies as a guide, meditate on Jeremiah 3. Record your thoughts in your journal.

Circle key words. Spend time listening to the Holy Spirit and record your thoughts in your journal.

EVALUATE
Evaluate your Bible study today. Review previous Bible studies to remind yourself of ideas for evaluation.

PRAY
Spend some time in open, honest prayer.

Title your Bible study.

Jeremiah 4

Mark your Bible.

STUDY
Study your Bible, using all the methods that you have learned. Journal.

MEDITATE
Meditate on your Bible study and spend time listening quietly to the Holy Spirit. Journal.

Finish marking your Bible.

EVALUATE
Evaluate today's Bible study. Journal.

PRAY
Spend some time in open, honest prayer. Journal.

Title your Bible study.

Jeremiah 5

Mark your Bible.

STUDY
Study your Bible using all the methods that you have learned. Journal.

MEDITATE
Meditate on your Bible study and spend time listening quietly to the Holy Spirit. Journal.

Finish marking your Bible.

EVALUATE
Evaluate and check today's Bible study. Journal.

How are you doing studying on your own? Where do you need to improve and/or review?

PRAY
Spend some time in open, honest prayer. Journal.

Title your Bible study.