Please know that this video was created BEFORE I knew what a “Prayer Bible” is. If you watch the video I recorded directly after this, you will see my explanation and why I even created this specific video for a reason and it was not to criticize or critique the prayer Bible concept from Sisterita Club. After I watched her video, I knew what a “prayer Bible” was and I loved her idea!! So please do not take this video out of context. I am giving my opinion on my personal prayer journal and how I know the Word of God is living an active and that it can be okay and also not okay to pray scripture “out of context” Look at the dates and follow along with my prayer Bible journey please. Taking anything out of context, even a KZfaq video, can be misunderstood and misinterpreted. Praying. Scripture is a good thing. Knowing what Scripture means is vital. ❤️

I was JUST thinking about this topic today as I prepare themes and verses to make my own prayer Bible. I am so afraid of taking a verse out of context because I’m coming across verses from books I haven’t even started studying through yet, but I want to pray through scripture, specifically about praising God and healing. So, what I’m doing is going through my Bible commentary and BibleRef online just so I can have an idea of what’s going on as I try to decide if it’s what I’m looking for. I agree with what you’re saying. We need to understand the context and exert hermeneutics, but this fear shouldn’t paralyze me or anyone else from prayer. Thank you for this video.

Thanks Nicki! You are brave❣️ Yes, updating my prayer Bible recently which I started in 2019…same thoughts & questions as you said & I kept going back to Hebrews 4:12. “For the word of God is is living and active…” Lord, hear the thoughts and intentions of my heart. Also, knowing the background of who & why in the passage. God bless🤗

Hello Nicki, This was really awesome and very informative. Thank you, my dear. And your Bible is beautiful. Laticia

I have always done this and in fact it brought me closer to Christ! The word of God will only penetrate the heart, when it's read and translated personally. There is nothing wrong with putting ourselves among the Scripture, it's our own private time with God. We aren't adding or changing the actual scriptures :) We all have a need and a want for the Word and we need to find what works for us. This is beautifully done 💜

I needed to hear this message today. Thanks for sharing what's on your heart

I think your prayer journal is lovely! Such a wonderful keepsake! ❤️ Cathie

Thank you Nicki for this video! I appreciated it ❤❤

I've prayed over Scripture for many years and recorded them in a journal-notebook. You're very crafty, and it's inspiring me in many ways.

Bible journaling, daily reading, setting aside the Sabbath for study & prayer walks, plus the CSB Chronological Bible, and The Complete Jewish Study Bible have deepened insight and ignited passion for the Word. Thank you for the video!

I just ordered your old and new testament guides. Im excited to get started. Be blessed

Thank you…If I cannot apply the Word of God directly to my life, it would be a very accurate but dead history book…how else can you have a living relationship with the Lord if He cannot speak to you also personally through His word.

I love your Bible! It's so beautiful the way you decorated it and your journaling. 😍 It's such a blessing to look back on. Satan keeps stirring up problems with stuff now, but that's why we need to keep in a deep study in God's Word. Stay strong on our knees. I ❤ God's Word and so thankful I have it. Thankful for your channel--such a blessing! I need a few of those book.😊

Thank you for this insight. I believe God uses scripture to speak to us. I have let this idea of being afraid to take the verse out of context keep me from doing what God has called me to do. I appreciate your perspective as it has helped me so much. Have a blessed day!!

Thank you for this, I totally agree.

Study the Bible with me at www.crazysimpletruth.com/join We'd LOVE to have you join us!

The Lord gives each of us a message in His word. I believe He can use a scripture to speak to me and use the same scripture to say something else to someone else. I have just started a prayer Bible and a separate Bible Journal for study.

Got a little something for ya.... I disagree with your thoughts on doodling in your 2019 prayer bible as crazy or obnoxious. I think it is beautiful how at that time something in you made you express what you were feeling or thinking. I think God looks at it with a tender heart. It is awesome! Your teachings are really sinking into my heart. I am having so much fun learning and discovering God's love for me. You are doing a great job! I love this journey and the momentum I am getting from God.

Nicki you should do a flip through of that whole bible. I'd love to see your artwork in there!

Absolutely awesome

I’m going to be using my Prayer Bible only to pray not for study , I a separate Bible to do my study and verse mapping, thanks for the suggestion

I agree but we are supposed to study the Bible and carefully, without twisting it, determine what it says and obey

I'm new to colour tabbing my Bible, and have a purpose for doing it, but not writing in it or adding ephemera. I like to read the before and after verses and sometimes the whole chapter/s and can't if it's covered up. l'd feel my Bible is messed up. I do however enjoy watching others personalise their Bibles with ephemera that's meaningful and encouraging to them.

💖💓🙏 I have ADHD too..... You made me giggle..... I'm always going off in a tangent and then not remembering what I was talking about 😂 great job getting back on track .. I can relate so much with you and you are helping me on my journey x God Bless x

Prayer bibles - this is new to me, and I don't think its for me. I have a book called Daily Bread (Ariel Media) and I write down personal prayers in this book. Its nice to look back to see how God answered my prayers. I agree that we need to be very careful not to take a verse out of context. In my journaling bible I will note something gleaned from commentaries to better understand the scripture I'm reading. Very little artwork in my bibles :-). Just notes.

Hi Nicki, I think you spoke a massive amount of spiritual common sense in this video, and I am taking what you said on board as I explore creating my own prayer Bible. Praying Scripture is so important, to my mind, just as important as understanding the history, the context, etc. of the Scriptures you are drawn to. There are many different Christians doing similar things on YT, and sometimes there will be misunderstandings. I personally feel that if one KZfaqr thinks their content is being criticized by another KZfaqr, they should have a private conversation and iron things out. Unfortunately, instead of doing that, this all seems to have blown up publicly, and people seem to be having to apologise when they have done nothing wrong. You all give advice from your own prayer lives as to what you feel works and doesn't work. As your listeners it is up to us to listen and take on board what we connect with. And for what it's worth, your 2019 prayer Bible pages are not ugly. You were in a different season then, is all. A lot of us have Bibles that look like yours. :) God bless you!

I do have a prayer Bible, but most of my general prayers go in a prayer journal. I use the prayer Bible for prayers I felt led in when studying a passage, but everyone has a different approach.

I’m using mines as an outreach bible using the one I had 2012

Not one ounce of ugly in that prayer Bible, It's a story of your journey and how you grow over time! No amount of Bible study, prayer, or art is wasted or ugly; it's just where the story begins to grow and develop into a beautiful story of your journey to know and learn more of who God is and how to express and remember how you felt at that point in the journey. Look at David's life in the Bible; he had a lot of not so good moments, but he had a heart for God, as do you! Thanks for the tips. I'm deeply passionate about knowing the content of the whole scripture myself, to the point that I find I don't jump on the small simple devo out there, as I like to read through and study the book as a whole. I trying the monthly scripture writing prompt and I kept fizzy out because at times it felt to that the scripture being used didn't fit with the topic as I knew the context of it. It does kinda rub me the wrong way to take scripture out of context, and I have been praying and thinking on this whole "prayer bible" thing. You did bring up some great points of view and I will continue to prayer and see where God leads me on the topic. Thanks for sharing!

I keep a separate journal for notes and reminders without writing on my Bible. Revelation 22:18

Hi sister this scare me now I am not sure want mean, please explain to me , God bless you 🙏

Dr Don Whitney recommends allowing scripture to prompt your prayer. He even says that isn't really using scripture 'in context,' but it's still allowing God's Word to lead our prayer life. That is not the same as doctine-forming Bible study.

Hi Niki, How do we use your Bible outline book? Do you have any videos on this book?

I say this with so much respect to those who mean well and are telling people that they "need to take the scriptures in context". Satan has been so busy discouraging folks from picking up their Bible to read, I know this first hand as I'm one of his victims, I've struggled with that for years. I also know that even good things can be used to discourage people. Is it important to know the context of scripture? Absolutely, but is God going to cease listening to your prayers because you didn't practice exegesiswhen reading and praying a scripture?? I don't think so. We need to stop letting these things scare us from seeking and exercising the power written in God's word

Taking things out of context to become cute self-help messages can definitely hurt spiritual growth. It also leads to false teachings.

I think what you are referring to at about 06:00 is making room for a Rhema Word. Am I understanding you correctly, Nicki? 😊

The artwork makes me think of God and how beautiful God is

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There's several things to consider here. First of all, i see where one commenter said the bible is not about us therefore we cannot claim its promises. 😮 well the last time i checked thats exactly what the Bible is. It was wriiten for the jews first then the gentiles. The bible is alive and active and the only way it can be that is if we believe its instructions were written to us just as much as it was an audience thousands of years ago. Yes, we need to study, yes we need to understand background and context, but more than that, we need to understand how God wants to shape us according to what the bible teaches. We know that Jesus died for OUR sins. How can we understand that if we don't understand that the bible was written for us. If we are wittnessing to an unbeliever and we tell them jesus died for their sins. And then they want to know how we know that. If we tell them the Bible says so, but then they point out that you said the bible isn't about us, so why should they apply what you said about Jesus dying for their sins to their own lives. Yes the people in the bible had their biographies written in the bible, but that doesn't mean we cannot apply what God said to them, to us. There is not a word written in the Bible that cannot be applied to our lives to bring us closer Jesus and shape us more into the image of Christ. Not every person was born to be a theologian. Alot of people do not have to ability to ubderstand the depths of most theologians. Thats why we have those people to help us understand the bible more. But the most simply concepts found in the bible are the ones that all people can understand. And just as God has protected His Word throughout the ages, He has also made a way for the very simplest amount us to understand the ultimate love and sacrifice He made in order to have us with Him for eternity. If the only thing i ever could understand out of the entire bible is, " For God loved us so much that he gave His only Son, that who ever believes in Him, shall not perish, but will have eternal life." John 3:16 If thats all they were capable of understanding, then that is enough. Gods Holy Spring will guide us into truth from there. The Bible in context is, once we have come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, them we have the bible to teach us where to go from there and how to serve in our purpose that we were created for. We are to win others to Jesus through love. If i did not believe that God inspired the word of God with the foreknowledge that one day i would be reading it desiring a deeper relationship with him, then why would i bother. God used the stories of His children from the past, to teach amd inspire His children today. And when we read, its life flows into us. So yes, sisters, the Bible was written for us. ❤

Yes, we learned by taking scripture out of context to directly apply to our lives. It is important that well it is taken out of context. It is also in context at the same time. So that we are not deceived by statan.

I believe that the Holy Spirit will talk to me at particular times in my life. But the message is for ME to help me get through that valley and not for everyone else. I will later see something I wrote next to a certain Scripture and wonder, what the heck? I used to stress over taking Scripture out of context, but now it no longer bothers me. It bothers me when a Pastor/Preacher takes Scripture out of context and teaches it that way to his flock. That is blasphemous, to me. God's Word teaches and guides us by giving us examples of weak men who missed the mark several times in their lives, but He chose to use them for His purpose. I can identify with the flesh because God isn't finished with me!

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Scripture - truth is truth. As it was in the beginning, is now, and every shall be. God’s truth is unalterable! And we are not permitted to alter one letter of it.

You’re right, Nikki. The name it and claim it false teaching is someone trying to be God in their own lives. Using God’s Word rightly with faith and belief in His truths, is never wrong. God’s Word may not be written to us in those time periods, but it is God’s truth and still applies to us today. Living and active for all time. Some use the Bible simply as an educational tool and end up with heads full of knowledge (which puffs up) about God and the nations etc., but no real growth in faith and trust in Christ bc they are afraid to use it in faith for themselves. The danger for them is a life of religion and knowledge, but not that deep personal loving relationship of faith and belief in Christ, like a small child has, which a Christian must have.

Why is it dangerous if you don’t understand the context?

We can do all things through Christ. That's not wrong at all claim that that's one of those things that the lines with the Bible ended the lines. With our lives, i'm here.

God is the same God then, now and forever more. He has not change he is the same.

Looks gorgeous to me! That gene skipped me and hit all three of my siblings! lol

That is not an acceptable approach to scripture. I'm truly saying this with love. The HS will speak to us but not when we are changing the meaning because we "feel led to." God's word is alive and is deep in meaning, but it is not interpretive literature nor can I say a verse about someone else is about me. Without context, we easily welcome in heresy. I can cling to who God is for me, but the Bible is not about me.

Wait, I don't understand. You're saying that prayer Bibles/journals can be dangerous because of verses taken out of context? 🤔 I actually think prayer Bibles might be slightly different (Bibles specifically used for praying verses corresponding to prayer topics) Do you mean journaling Bibles? Like the NLT Inspire or the illustrators Bible? (Bibles over saturated with artwork?) Thanks for the video, God bless!

We all should know by now that the enemy wants us to either jump over the horses back or land under it's belly on our back... when we quote scripture, we should know the conext, but as you say, you also know that "I can do all thing through Christ" has the obvious addendum "that is pleasing to Him or He would love for me to have or experience". I mean duh. We get all legalistic (enter the devil) and freeze - just what the enemy wants. How many times have you been going along and a scripture pops into your mind and it speaks perfectly to what you need. Did the Holy Spirit just speak 'out of context'? No. He applied it.

Lol! You are just scanning the room. It's an ADHD thing. My eyes are always all over the place when I talk.

I make prayers out of scripture all the time.

All these negative comments. All this negative disparaging a joyful moment you had with the Lord and calling it ugliness. The disrespect to your younger self. The lists of do and don't. The whole heavy burden placed on someone trying to read the Bible and hear from God. I don't know what you were trying to say in this video but I don't have a desire to listen further. I hope this isn't what Bible journaling is about. This all just made me feel sick to my stomach. 😢

Jesus started one church The Roman Catholic Church

This is not biblical, context is very very important and it will hurt when you use it out of context....please please stop!

Literally just see a trend in my opinion 😮‍💨 Give it a few months…Our relationship with Christ is not a trend. Many people channels are reflecting what I’m saying. Content is not about that…Praying or anything and you just see “prayer bible” video. Some women do mean well I’m sure. As a woman of God. We need to do better. But anyways lol I’m just here to say…I like your video lol 🤭 And ladies do what the Holy Spirit leads you to do. Use discernment please 🩷