How to Study

“Where the head goes, the body will follow.” In high school I played defensive nose guard. The position is usually right in front of the offensive center and behind him is the quarterback. Too often the center would have his head down while focused on snapping the ball. I learned very quickly that if I was fast enough to push on the back of the center’s helmet before he could look up, he would go face down into the turf while I made the sack.

“Where your focus goes, the body will follow.” Not long after I began college, a friend of mine needed help moving some furniture he bought from a family that was moving. This family lived way out in the Ozark, down a dirt road and near a creek. It had rained most of the week but when we went to pick up the couch the weather had cleared up. We loaded the couch into my pick-up and headed back to his apartment. While driving down the now muddy dirt road, I reached over to change the music in my CD player. When I turned my head to the right the truck drifted right: Right off the road that is. Thankfully, I did not drive into the creek but I did have to spend all of my Christmas money on a tow truck to pull me out of the ditch.

“Where the mind goes, the body will follow.” “The Old Testaments instructs the Israelites to write the Laws on gates and doorposts and bind them to their wrists so that they might be a reminder to them (Deuteronomy 11:18). The Purpose of this instruction is to direct the mind repeatedly and regularly toward certain modes of thought about God and human relationships. The ingrained habits of thought that are formed will conform to the order of the thing being studied. What we study determines the kind of habits that are formed.”-Richard Foster

3) Spend some time reading and focusing on the following passages:Deuteronomy 6:1-12, 11:16-23; Psalm 1; John 15:1-17.
End you time in prayer asking God to help you keep your eyes and study on Him.