READ God’s word as He has written it, for the Bible means what it says. Read the Bible as God’s word to you, your own self, for God is speaking to you by His word. Read the Bible prayerfully, for we cannot understand it save as He teaches us its meaning by His Holy Spirit. Read the Bible frequently, for the more often it is read the more joy do God’s children find in reading it. There was a little boy who lived in the days when it was not lawful to read God’s word. He learned five chapters by heart, and then his Bible was taken from him, when he said, “You may take away the book, but you can never take away from me the five chapters, for I have those in my heart.”