A reading plan assigns a passage to each day. FerventWord App carries the plans published on ferventword.com, and you can build your own.
The Plan That Is Already There
A reading plan has been set up for you: Bible In 2 Years, started on January 1st. It is there to show how the schedule works — open Today's Reading and you will see the passages it assigns for today. Delete it and add your own whenever you are ready.
Because it started in January, it is already partway through its two years. That is simply where the calendar is; there is nothing owed and nothing to make up.
Choosing A Plan
Open the menu and choose Reading Plan Setup. Pick a plan, give it a name if you want one of your own, choose the day it starts and the version it is read in, and Today then shows whatever it holds for today. You can follow more than one at once — a plan through the Bible in the morning, a Psalm in the evening, a Proverb at lunch — and Today shows all of them.
Every plan tells you roughly how long its daily reading takes before you start it.
Order
Order decides which sequence the books are read in. Plans covering a whole testament offer two.
Fervent Mix is the arrangement the plans on ferventword.com use. Three things are arranged rather than printed in order: the Psalms are woven through the Old Testament at their own five divisions instead of being read in one long stretch; Chronicles moves from just after 2 Kings to just before Isaiah, so the narrative is fresh again before the prophets; and the New Testament is read as a narrative — Luke and Acts first, then Paul's letters, with the other Gospels placed along the way.
Traditional is Genesis to Revelation, in the order the books are printed.
Passages A Day
Separately from the order, you can choose how many places you are reading at once. One passage a day reads straight through. Two or three run alongside each other, so a single day holds different kinds of writing — which is how the plans on ferventword.com are built.
How many you can choose depends on what you selected: the whole Bible offers up to three, the Old Testament up to two, and the New Testament one, because its arrangement is a single thread.
Choose three passages over the whole Bible and it opens where Bible In 1 Year opens — in Genesis, in the Psalms and in Luke, on the same first day. That is not a coincidence: the place the Old Testament divides was chosen so a plan you build yourself begins the way the published one does. Each passage can have its own reminder, so one can be a morning reading and another an evening one.
Building Your Own
Give the plan a name, or leave the name blank and FerventWord App names it after what it covers. Choose the whole Bible, a testament, or any set of books — the full list of books stays out of the way until you open it — then how many days you want and how many passages a day. FerventWord App divides the reading at natural breaks — paragraphs, poetry stanzas and section headings — so a day never starts or ends mid-thought.
If your selection is smaller than the number of days you asked for, the setup screen says so before you save, and how many days will have no reading.
You can also set a single passage to repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, for as long as you like — useful when you are preparing to teach something.
Changing A Plan
Open Reading Plan Setup and choose one of your own plans. You can rename it, move the day it starts, change the version it is read in, change its reminders, and — on a plan you built yourself — change the books, the order, how many passages a day, and how long it runs. A published plan keeps the books and the length that make it that plan.
Changing the version changes the words and nothing else: which passage falls on which day stays exactly as it was.
Some of those change which passage falls on which day, and FerventWord App says so before you save. Changing the order or the books rebuilds what every day holds. The day numbering stays as it is — if you are on day 140, you are still on day 140, and it holds something else. Moving the start date moves the whole span with it, so the plan's day 1 lands on the day you chose.
Nothing is lost either way. FerventWord App works out each day's reading from the plan and the date whenever it is asked, so putting a setting back puts the readings back with it.
Removing A Plan
Open the plan and choose Remove Plan. The plan and its reminders go, on this device and on your other devices. The passages you read stay in Recent — removing a plan is not the same as forgetting where you have been.
If You Miss A Day
Nothing happens. The plan does not shuffle, nothing accumulates, and the app does not mention it. Tomorrow shows tomorrow's reading.
There is no way to go back and read what an earlier day held, and that is deliberate rather than missing. Today's reading is worked out from your plan and today's date; the app keeps no list of the days behind you, so there is none for it to show you.
When A Plan Ends
FerventWord App says so, and offers to start it again or choose a different one. It does not keep a record of what you read, so it has nothing to score and nothing to report.