How to Plan In The Bible Reading Planner
- Jessica Hutton
- Apr 14
- 4 min read
If you've ever started a Bible reading plan with the best intentions, only to lose momentum somewhere around Leviticus, you're not alone.
The problem usually isn't commitment; it's not having a realistic and manageable Bible reading plan that helps you show up consistently and finish what you’ve started.
The Bible Reading Planner™ by The Bible Study Tutor™ is a handmade, undated 12-month planner built specifically to solve that problem. Every section inside it exists for one reason: to help you read the Bible consistently until the day you finally finish what you started.
If you want the full breakdown of what's inside and which layout is right for you, start with our complete guide here.
But if you're ready to open your planner and get going, this step-by-step walkthrough will show you exactly how to use it.
Step 1: Choose Your Layout
The Bible Reading Planner™ comes in four weekly layout options: Daily, Horizontal, Horizontal Dashboard, and Vertical, each designed for a different kind of planner. Before you write anything, pick the one that fits how you actually plan your days and weeks, not how you wish you did.
Not sure which Bible Reading Planner Layout is right for you? Take this quiz:
Step 2: Pick A Reading Plan That Fits Your Life
This is where most people go wrong. They choose the most ambitious reading plan they can find and burn out before they reach Exodus.
Your reading plan should fit your life, not the other way around. The Bible Reading Planner™ includes Bible Reading Plan Options pages to help you think through whether a yearly, quarterly, monthly, or custom plan makes the most sense for your schedule right now. Use them. A plan you can actually follow will always outperform one that looks impressive on paper but leaves you feeling behind by February.
Step 3: Map Out Your Bible Reading Plan for The Year
Once you have a plan, transfer it to the Monthly Vertical Reading Trackers. Write in the passages or chapters you'll read each day of the month so that when you sit down to read, you already know exactly what's next. If filling in the whole year at once feels like too much, do it one month at a time. The goal is simply to make sure your next reading is always ready and waiting for you.
Step 4: Set Up Your Monthly Bible Study Goals
At the start of each month, open the Monthly Bible Study Goals and Action Plan spread and build a real plan for the weeks ahead. This isn't just about setting a goal; it's about thinking through everything that will help you reach it.
You'll work through six things: your goal and why it matters to you, where you do your best reading, when you'll carve out time for it, who can support or guide you, and how you'll handle the obstacles that will inevitably come up. This spread is what turns "I want to read my Bible more" into something specific, realistic, and doable.
Step 5: Set Up Your Weekly Spread
At the start of each week, open your weekly layout and get it ready before the week begins. Write the Daily Passage you plan to read each day and fill in your appointments, tasks, and anything else your week holds. If your layout includes the Spiritual Disciplines Tracker, choose up to five practices you want to track this week, whether that's Bible reading, prayer, worship, journaling, or anything else that matters to your walk with God.
This weekly setup is a small habit that makes every single day easier. When you sit down to read, everything is already decided. You just show up.
Step 6: Track Your Bible Reading Progress Every Day
Read today's passage. Mark the checkbox. Check off your spiritual discipline for the day.
That's it. That's the whole habit in its simplest form: one passage, one checkbox, one day at a time. And as the weeks go by, use the rest of the planner to go deeper: capture key verses on the Key Verse Pages, build your biblical vocabulary on the Vocabulary Pages, color in your Bible Bookshelf Reading Tracker as you finish each book, and revisit your monthly goals to see how far you've come.
The small wins compound faster than you think. Before long, you won't open your planner because you have to; you'll open it because it's become the part of your day you actually look forward to.
Who Is The Bible Reading Planner For?
The Bible Reading Planner™ is for the believer who is done starting over.
The one who wants to open their Bible every day, build a habit that actually sticks, and one day look back and realize they did it. They finished.
Whatever your schedule looks like, however your brain works, and wherever you are in your faith journey right now, there is a layout in this planner that was made for you.
(Re)Start today and finally finish what you’ve started with The Bible Reading Planner™.
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