Sometimes we are too intense to track how often we read the Bible and try to read a devotional every day to check it off our list. We focus for a time, miss a day, get a new verse or verses tomorrow, and start all over to try for a reading every day. What if we could work on the same reading for a week--same verse or verses, same application--and transform our lives to follow God through his Word one week at a time?

We can set a foundation of a manageable list of verses to pray through and memorize, learn the overview of the verses or chapter, and find an application for our lives to...