2 Timothy 3:16- 4:5 NIV ¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the servant of God^[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 

2 Timothy 4:1-5 NIV  1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: ² Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. ³ For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ⁵ But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

1. PRAY AND CHOOSE A TRANSLATION 
2. CHOOSE A TIME, PLACE & PLAN
3. UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT.
4.   READ SLOWLY AND FAITHFULLY

1. Observation
2. Interpretation
3. Application

SPECK - 

S- sin to avoid, 

P- promise to claim,

E- Example to follow, 

C-Command to obey, 

K- Something to Know about God and myself

5.     PRAY AND OBEY

Luke 1:1-4 NIV Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, ² just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. ³ With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, ⁴ so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

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