Destination Tracking chart to see where your maps have taken you and the revelations Scripture has provided over the course of your journaling expedition. We just have to come hungry to the table every day—He’ll handle the preparation for the feast ahead of time. Because learning to study this way had such a profound effect on me, I began to share it with others. The benefit to this is that writing verses down plants them more firmly in your heart and mind than just simply reading them. Here’s a good rule of thumb: everything is fair game in studying and verse mapping as long as God said it first.

You just want to have a picture in your mind about what’s going on in scripture as you begin to study. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.

Consider: Use the senses to uncover new meaning in the verse: What would it look, feel, smell, taste, or sound like to have experienced what’s happening? With editions for both adults and girls ages 8 to 12, families and study groups can experience the Bible together. A wonderful way for parents and daughters to dig deeper into God’s Word together, the NIV Verse Mapping Bible and NIV Verse Mapping Bible for Girls give readers the Bible study tools they need to better understand Scripture. Study on your own, gather with a study group, or round up the kids and study as a family at the kitchen table. A Bible in your preferred translation—An NIV Verse Mapping Bible, your own Bible, or a Bible app on a smart device.

Do whatever works to invite Him into your study space (listen to worship music, close the door, turn off all sound). What matters is not how much knowledge you have before you begin but where the experience takes you. If you have been doing topical verse maps, I pray you will consider my advice and change up the way you study. Compare: Record this verse from two or three other Bible translations and underline key words which are the same or different between translations. Let me take you through the process step-by-step so you can see for yourself how fulfilling verse mapping is!KRISTY CAMBRON is a vintage-inspired storyteller writing from the space where beauty, art, and history intersect. She's also been featured at: Cosmopolitan, Publishers Weekly, Once Upon a Book Club Box, Frolic, Book Club Girl, BookBub, Country Woman Magazine, and (in)Courage. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Developed by Biblica, formerly the International Bible Society, the New International Version is the result of years of work by the Committee on Bible Translation, overseeing the efforts of many contributing scholars.

I have created a verse mapping template (available in our Free Resource Library) to help you keep your thoughts together. I cannot recommend the NIV translation highly enough for individual reading, group study or preaching. The NIV Bible for Journalliing and Verse-Mapping is a beautifully presented Bible for you to treasure. Wherever you choose to connect, the point is, we're verse mapping through our days and finding inspiration in the Word— and doing it together!Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Can’t you slowly, carefully, prayerfully work your way through a book of the Bible in multiple sessions?

I love the versatility, and how I can stop when I need to and pick right back up where I left off without missing a beat. My favorite App is Bible Hub and my favorite concordance is Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance. The companion Verse Mapping Bible Study Journal includes Verse Mapping instructions, 50 blank maps, suggested verses to map with Topical Map Journeys, and a Destination Tracking chart to see where your maps have taken you and the revelations Scripture has provided. The Bible Project is one of my favorite places to go when I want to understand things like themes, audience, and history.On rare occasions we may not be able to fit your full name and may contact you for alternative options. Take your chosen passage and turn it into a prayer asking God to help you apply what you have learned. The best advice I can give to you as we walk through a verse together is this: don’t be afraid to start small. Maybe it’s for when you might go back and look for it and you just need to see your final step - I really don’t know. I began to feel convicted of telling them whatever they wanted to do was fine because there wasn’t a wrong way to verse map.