Personal Study Skills

1. Before You Study Know What You Want to Learn

a. Dream

b. Lay down Goals for future

c. For plans to get your from here to there

2. 2. Once you have a Goal Make a Plan

a. Once you have a plan become a person of action

b. Remember to have time of reflection

3. 3. Be Diligent

a. Make time to Study and Study when you’ve made time to

b. Be at class on time with the right material

i. (Majority of life is being in the right place at the right time and in the right uniform)

c. Remain Teachable

i. Regardless how much you know; it is never enough stop learning

4. 4. Make Time to Have Fun

a. Studying for future Ministry is serious business

b. Laughter is medicine to the Soul (Proverbs 17:22)

5. 5. Take Time for Physical Fitness or You’ll have to Take Time for Physical Illness

a. Eat plenty Fruits and Vegetables along with Low Fat Meat

b. Workout at least twice or three times a week

When I was fifteen I felt God’s call on my life to be a Pastor. Not long after that call my Youth Pastor told me that, “A Call to Preach is a Call to Prepare.” Ever since then I began formulating a plan to make God’s call a reality in my life. Though there have been some bumps in the road; I am on the path to completing my goal as I have planned. I am at GBSC (God’s Bible School and College) to fulfill the need to prepare, though I know that preparation is a continually act on my part throughout my ministry. I will never be done growing and I am thankful that many good books and wise teachers will dot my past, present and future. My action plan is as stated above; I know what I want and need to learn, I have a action plan, I will be diligent, I love to have fun and hope I always will and I must stay healthy to be useful this side of glory. I will seek to keep times of reflection in my life so that I will remain teachable and pliable; that I may be effective and contemporary to an ever changing world.