 Should I keep my hair about how many years? No. That's like three times already, so here we are everyone. Hey guys, what's up? It's Kinsey and welcome back to my YouTube channel, as you guys are new here. My name is Kinsey. I normally make really normal videos, like they're not like this at all. Do a lot of vlogs and like lifestyle stuff and I'm going out with something cool on Thursday. Stay tuned for Thursday. In today's video, I'm going to be talking about how I do my devotions, my morning reading. I never plan on doing this video, but so many people have asked me a billion times and it's something that has made such a huge impact on my life and just like my day to day. I'm just going to film it today, but if you guys don't believe what I believe, that's so okay. Believe in a God who's like super accepting and loving of everyone. I don't care like what your religion is, where you come from, like race, sexuality, literally do not care at all. I love all of you guys the same. That's it. All I have to say. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you guys don't believe what I believe in, normal videos are coming literally right after this. I promise you it's not all going to be like this at all, but yeah if you guys are interested, just keep watching. So the first thing I get asked a ton of the time is a ton of the time. That sounds so weird. I don't know what that means. A lot of the time. How to make time for your devotions. I have really lived by the rule that we don't have time to not have time. It has become such a huge part of my life, way bigger than I ever thought it would be because I put it in my life. You have to be intentional. You have to make time for it. You have time for what you want to make time for. No one is too busy for this. You can always wake up a little bit earlier. I know that people's schedules get crazy. There are definitely days that I miss. I am not perfect at this by any means, but my days that I do it are so much better than the days that I don't do it. So again we just like we don't have time to not have time. If you guys have to wake up an hour earlier, do that. That's what I do. Night time. It works different for everyone. I think some people do better at night and some people do better in the morning. It's so chill. Even in the middle of the day. I don't know. It can be any time. But I do better in the morning. I wake up. I go to my kitchen. I make some coffee. I do those cute Instagram stories that my dads are too blurry and you hate them. But on the 8mm app by the way. Super cute. I love those. So I'll do that. Talking about my devotion and here we are on my Instagram. My Instagram is kind of the other way. I post more stuff about this on there if you guys are interested though. Then I make my breakfast and I go back to my room. I normally wake up around like 6, 6, 30 to do this though and I will say waking up early and doing this has really also made a huge difference. I love being up in the morning but I'm also a morning person. So it so depends on you. Just pick a time when you want to do it and make it a routine. You don't want this to become a routine to you. When you go into this and you're looking for God, you're going to find God and you're going to get so much more out of it. If you're looking for Jesus it's going to stick. If you're just kind of reading through it like it's whatever, you're not coming expected so it's just probably not going to be as crazy. Who knows? It still might be. But don't let it become a routine but I'm super for making it into your routine. Making it a routine. There are days that I don't want to do it and I still do it and the more you do it the more you want to do it. So I think it's super important even on days that you don't want to do it to do it and make it a routine but don't make it a routine. That probably doesn't make sense but if you get it you get it. You know what I'm saying? I'm so sorry everyone. So what is a devotion and what do you do in a devotion? A devotion is basically just like timing a spin with God. So I guess that's my answer for that. I don't know. I guess. And then what to do in a devotion? There's so many things that you guys can do. A lot of people just pray. That's awesome. That was my answer. We love Jesus on this channel. You know, my character is still developing. You know, there's things that we all can learn. You love all of us. Even my roommates can make noise when I fail this. I have to remember that. Okay, but anyways. What to do in a devotion? There are so many things you can do. You can watch a sermon on YouTube. You can, which by the way, Zoë, my church, it's spelled Zoë, but it's Zoë. It's very important that you know that, but Zoë just means abundant life in the Bible. That's why it's named that. So we have a YouTube channel and we also have a podcast. So the sermons each week are on the YouTube channel and the podcast. If you guys are in LA, definitely check it out. But if you're not and you're looking to like listen to something, my pastor, Chavich is amazing. So I would definitely check that out. Also Judas Smith is amazing. Carl Lentz is amazing. Love Tim Timberlake. Yeah, there's just so many people and the more you find, the more you're going to find through that. With that being said though, I'm super for the local church. I think finding a church is so important for like community, for growing in your faith, for growing as a person, for safety in the house. I am so for the local church that's like where my heart is. So with that being said, sermons and podcasts are really awesome, but also like find a church. But for devotions and stuff, that's cool. There's also devotional books that they can lead you in a devotion. So if you guys like, I like more structure too. So that's helpful. I also will just read random books throughout it as well. So two that I could just kind of recommend to you off the bat, uninvited. So good. Present number perfect. So good guys. Two of the best books ever. Uninvited sells itself short by the title and like the cover. There's so much more to that book than just dealing with like insecurity. Like that's not really necessarily like something I would have read about, but like it has made it like I learned so much from that book. I'm like leading a diva group and we're reading it again because it's so good. And then also I always listen to music. So typically like what my devotions look like is I normally will have this cool Christian music playlist playing. My friend Dylan made. Guys this playlist is so good. It is like normal music. It does not sound like it's like you're like in the Bible about going to college everyone's wearing like chocolates and you know it seems like elevation. That's awesome. It's not my vibe. You know what I'm saying? Like this playlist is amazing. Also I love elevation. It's nothing compared to that. I actually listen to elevation too. But yeah if you want music that just kind of sounds more like music that you listen to on like your everyday life. Check it out. I'll have that link down below. Dylan's also a pastor actually in Dallas so check that out. But yeah it is like literally the best playlist ever. I have it on loop all day every day pretty much. With that being said though I think if you're looking for God also the Bible is a really good thing to do. My director in school is always like really weak theology. He's like podcast and sermon theology like strong theology is like reading your Bible and he's super for like podcast and like videos, sermons, whatever I just said. Like that's super awesome but also at the same time like making your own reading it for yourself like you will if you're looking for God like you will find him in there. I think that's super important as well. Also with that being said people who are really unfamiliar and have heard like crazy things about the Bible. Reading the Bible in context is so important when you read it and it sounds crazy. It's because at the time that made sense so there's so many stories that have been taken out of context and used against people which you're not supposed to do anyway so it doesn't matter. But so many things have been taken out of context that like make it look bad and that just like literally is not right. So reading it in context is really helpful. That just means reading it and knowing what was going on at the time so it makes more sense. Um yeah. I do all of these like I really switch off all the time so I can't really tell you exactly what I do because it changes from day to day. I'm gonna wait for this plane to pass. I hope they're on the way to Jerusalem or something. Gosh. Any day now. I know, I know. How to read the Bible. This is something that is super overwhelming. It's really super overwhelming for me. I didn't grow up in a family that wants to church all the time by any means. I went for a little when I was younger. I was super involved when I started going for a few years and then I like fell away and now I'm like back obviously. But yeah that was super overwhelming for me because I was like how do I read this? It's like very very confusing. So it can be really overwhelming. It's super weird. Like this book can be like really crazy and you're like what does this even mean? I promise it makes sense. It just sounds like crazy. There is this tool that they've taught us like in school and whatever on how to read it and they teach us like other places that's pretty popular but it's called SOAP. So it's an acronym. S stands for Scripture. O stands for Observation. A stands for Application and then P stands for Prayer. So let's say you are reading the book of John. Like you're gonna read like five chapters out of John and the verse that stands out to you is John 316. I'm so original today. Really I am. John 316 the SOAP would be John 316 or the S would be John 316. O would be what you observe from that verse. And when you do it in a group of people it's so cool because everyone takes something different from it and everyone learns something different from it. So it's cool to like share your SOAPs with someone else because like you learn things. And you pick up on things that maybe like they wouldn't have or you didn't or whatever. Application is how you're gonna apply to your life. P is how you prayer is how like your prayer for over that verse for your life. Books of the Bible if you're new to this that I recommend reading will be the Gospel. So that's Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. That's just a pretty good place to start because that's Jesus' life on earth. But also you have things like Proverbs. Proverbs is good because there's 31 Proverbs. So like people will be like oh what's your Proverbs of the day or whatever. So if it's August 8th read like Proverbs chapter 8. That's helpful. It's just like really really short. If you're reading the Bible it can be overwhelming. It can be weird but it can also be awesome. If you're like looking for Jesus you're going to find Jesus that's what this is about. That I don't know my pastor told me that and he was like you just you have to be reading and looking for Jesus. And then things will stick because it's super easy to like read and then just like read through it and just like not really pay attention. Soap is something that has made me get so much more out of Bible reading than ever before. I was never necessarily like really good at it and I would not say that I'm good at it now by any means. But soap has made a huge difference to me and I'm a big fan. I get questions about my Bible all the time where it's from yada yada yada. So I've actually answered this a ton of times but people ask all the time because I'll post things on like Instagram stories or whatever. And then people will ask what it's from. My Bible is the Message Remix Bible. The Message translation is awesome especially for people our age because it puts it in something. Like it's not like King James version like King James version is really old. If you guys are not familiar by the way there's different translations of the Bible. They all mean the same thing. They're just put into different words that make you understand it better and get the same thing out of it. So like what King James version of the Bible is the same as like the Message or like the Passion translation or whatever translation it is. But it's just like finding a translation that works for you. I love the Message. That is really it for my devotion kind of like Bible morning reading. I hope you guys enjoyed. Again if you guys don't believe what I believe that is so okay. I love you guys all. If you guys do these let me know. If you guys are new to this or whatever and I need to cover some more things I can like answer in the comments down below. If you guys start to do stuff and you post Instagrams like tag me in there or something I want to see. If you guys have any book recommendations or anything like that let me know. Also if you guys do devotions and you guys have more tips leave them in the comments down below. I love you guys so much. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I will be back to normal regular schedule programming in like a few days. Love you guys so much and I will see you soon. Bye.