NEW CHRISTIAN HELP - What next!
Praise The Lord for you! It is exciting when you hear the call and come to the Lord, He desires to be your God and walk with you and abide with you. As all new Christians, we desire to know the Lord and that of course is the Gospels where we follow Yeshua Jesus to know Him. Most know it comes with the Bible and prayer. I wanted to tell all how I was directed feeling it was an awesome way plus now being old would add some things. Quick start knowledge before we begin.
Almighty God knows all
God not only see's all but He can see your heart and read your mind! Now Satan wanting to stop your knowledge of the LORD, he can hear and see but is not able to read your heart and mind. Satan is able to drop a thought into your mind, but he is not able to read your mind. He would see if you had a response to it if you respond. I wish I had of known this when I started.
Prayer: Father I ask you open my ears to hear, eyes to see and heart to receive your word and I thank you for it. Amen. (say it in your mind if not out loud)
New Christian - Start reading the Gospels.
I would start by listening (reading) the first 4 chapters of Matthew. Matthew addresses the beginning with birth of Jesus to baptism, being tempted by the devil and starting to choose his disciples. Book of Matthew
Then start reading the Book of John. Why John? The book of John starts with the first miracle that Christ did plus gives you the tools of understanding about the Holy Spirit and hearing the words of Christ Jesus. In John 17 you get to see the prayer Jesus prayed for us, praying out to the future for us, including us that hear by his disciples which this book and Matthew are both his disciples prayed for within that prayer. This is the perfect place to start. Now I love to hear the word read to me so will online listen to the dramatized while reading along in scriptures. For the audio online book of John dramatized I used biblegateway. Book of John
Don't worry about doing that much, if all you want to read or listen to is just one chapter start there but get in a habbit of doing it every day. You might get hooked on listening and end up listening to more than you thought. Try to though at minimun to listen to 1 chapter a day, we all have a few minutes. Father God is your Father and just like any parent they want to see their child each day. You are a child of God's. When your done tell Father in your head what you thought of it, He knows anyway but it helps getting you in a habbit of talking to the Lord.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:37 (KJV)