To make the most of this series, we encourage you to follow this daily reading plan with us, be a part of the online service where we explore each area, and discuss your experience with your community in your Connect Group. Together, we all discover the rhythms of life God has laid out for us. 

 HOW TO SOAP

SOAP is a simple and easy approach to studying the Bible. Just grab your journal and follow the steps!

 S - SCRIPTURE

What stood out to you?

Take time to go through today’s Bible reading and minimise distractions to allow God to speak to you. Look out for a verse or word that particularly speaks to you and write it in your journal.

O - OBSERVATION

What is God saying to you?

Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal himself to you and teach you in this moment. Why do you think that verse or word spoke to you? What do you feel God is saying to you in this scripture?

A - APPLICATION

How can you apply it today?

Ask yourself how this applies to your life right now and write down what this means for you today. It could be instruction, an encouragement, a promise to hold on to, or a correction for something in your life.

P - PRAYER

Ask God to help you use what you’ve learned.

This could be asking for greater insight on what He is revealing to you, or perhaps it’s simply asking for God’s help to use this scripture. Remember, prayer is a two-way conversation, so be sure to listen to what God has to say! Now write your prayer in your journal and speak it out.

Faith in Action

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

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38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

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17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

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4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

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7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.

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A psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

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7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

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