How to use the
119 Assistant

Open Talk from the Assistant menu and sign in with your 119 Ministries account. Bring a quick question or explore a topic through follow-up questions.

• Before you begin: use a reliable internet connection, allow microphone access, and run the microphone and speaker check. Headphones can help reduce background noise. Voice previews and audio checks are free.
• Choose your session limit: Talk uses 3 credits per connected minute, including research. Connected time is measured by the second and rounded up to a whole credit when you finish. Your selected limit is reserved at connection; unused credits return when you pause. The page keeps your balance and remaining session time visible.
• Set the response length: open Conversation settings and choose Short, Balanced (the default), or Detailed. You can also say “keep it brief,” “go deeper,” or “back to balanced.” Every length uses the same 119 sources and reasoning standards.
• Pause or change to text: Pause conversation closes the connection. A minute of quiet also pauses it automatically. If your connection struggles, use Continue in text. Return to saved transcripts and study notes when you are ready.
• Test everything: the Assistant is an AI study tool and can make mistakes. Read the supporting passages in context and examine the reasoning against Scripture.

Use Ask a Bible Question unless a specialized workflow below fits what you are trying to accomplish. In Chat, find Task, click Advanced Tasks, then select the tool you want. Opening the list alone does not change your Task. The control shows Advanced: Review Content, for example, when that Task is active.

If you use Advanced Tasks often, Chat also offers an optional setting to reset back to Ask a Bible Question after each reply. Leave that setting off when you want a multi-turn advanced conversation.

The Translator is designed specifically for Bible- and faith-related content, with special support for taking 119 Ministries teachings into other languages.

In Chat, choose Task → Advanced Tasks → Translate to open the Translator panel. Choose Upload document, Paste text, or 119 teaching inside that panel to begin. To return to normal chat, choose Ask a Bible Question.

Each newly translated part uses 1 Standard credit. Translation uses its own workflow rather than the normal chat Response Power selection.

Signed-in users can bring a document into the conversation without pasting the entire file into the message box.

• Supported types are PDF, DOCX, TXT, and Markdown, up to 3 MB.
• Use Attach beside the composer, then ask questions about the document in the same conversation.
• Attachments work especially well with Review Content when you want a sermon, article, manuscript, paper, or study evaluated.
• Uploaded source files remain separate from the shared 119 knowledge library and expire automatically.

The Assistant is more useful when you verify what it says. Several tools are built directly into Scripture references and teaching pages to make that easier.

When a Bible reference appears in Chat

• Open the Scripture preview: click or tap a Bible reference to read the World English Bible text without leaving the conversation.
• Read Context: expand a verse reference to the full chapter, then return to the original passage when needed.
• Ask 119: place a ready-to-edit question about that passage into the composer. It is not sent until you choose to send it.
• Related Passages: prepare a prompt asking the Assistant to show connected Scriptures and explain the relationship.
• 119 Teachings: search the teaching library from the Scripture pop-up and open relevant 119 Ministries teachings.
• Copy full passage: copy the passage or expanded chapter currently being displayed.

When you open a teaching

• Verified teaching transcripts can be read on the teaching page and opened or downloaded as PDF when available.
• Related Teachings can suggest closely connected 119 content for continued study.
• Numbered series can provide Previous, Next, and expandable series navigation.
• Study guides appear directly on their matching teaching pages when a verified guide is available.
• Ask 119 Assistant about this teaching opens a fresh chat with the teaching already identified in the composer so you can ask a question about it.

Browse the teaching library at Teachings.

Prompts can now move directly between the Prompt Hub and Chat, which makes them useful as reusable study tools instead of just examples to copy manually.

Open the Community Prompt Hub.

Treat each chat as a focused study thread. Good chat organization improves both usability and answer quality.

• Start a New Chat when the topic changes: use the prominent New Chat action in Chats / Folders or the second New Chat action above the composer.
• A fresh draft is not saved until you send: opening New Chat gives you a clean composer without immediately creating an empty conversation in your history.
• Rename chats: use the chat menu to give important studies useful names.
• Create folders: group related studies such as Torah, Eschatology, Biblical Calendar, Family Study, or teaching preparation.
• Move chats into folders: use the chat menu or bulk controls when organizing multiple conversations.
• No folder: quickly find conversations that have not been organized yet.
• Full-text search: Search chats finds words and phrases inside stored user and Assistant messages, not only chat titles. Search results can surface matching conversations across folders and show a short preview to help you identify the right one.

Response actions let you reuse a good answer without manually reformatting it.

• Listen / Pause: hear the response read aloud and pause or resume playback.
• Copy: copy the reply in Markdown, Plain text, BBCode, or HTML format.
• Save Text: save the response as a Markdown file for your own notes.
• Print / PDF: open a clean print view and print the reply or save it as a PDF.
• Share on Facebook: open Facebook sharing for the response.
• Save Prompt: save the prompt that produced a particularly useful answer into My Prompts for reuse later.

Credits cover the paid AI and retrieval infrastructure used to generate replies. Different Response Power levels use different amounts, which is why the site now talks about credits rather than simply counting messages.

• New accounts receive 10 free credits to try the Assistant.
• Standard uses 1 credit, Boost uses 3 credits, and Super Boost uses 5 credits.
• The Account page shows your current plan, monthly credit allowance, remaining credits, available add-ons, billing controls, and the plans currently being offered.
• Starter, Basic, Pro, and Add-on 100 options may be shown depending on the current account offerings; use the Account page as the source of truth for current prices and availability.
• Gift codes can be purchased or redeemed from the Gift area, and your referral tools are available from your account when eligible.

Visit Account for your current balance, plans, and billing controls.

The 119 Assistant is intended to be a narrow Bible-study tool rather than a general-purpose internet chatbot.

How a normal reply is produced

1. You ask a question in normal language.
2. The Assistant retrieves relevant material from the approved 119 knowledge base.
3. Your selected Task and Response Power shape the workflow and reasoning depth.
4. The answer is generated under the Scripture-first and 119-specific instructions.
5. You can then verify, ask follow-ups, open Scripture context, or continue into related teachings.

The Assistant is software. It can misunderstand a prompt, retrieve incomplete context, make a reasoning error, or phrase something too confidently. Treat important answers as material to test, not as a final authority.

• Test everything against Scripture (Acts 17:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:21).
• Ask for an audit: if something seems wrong, ask the Assistant to re-check its answer, show the Scriptural support, identify assumptions, or compare the answer with the relevant 119 teaching.
• Watch recency: brand-new 119 material is not available until it has been added to the system.
• Watch scope: when the ministry has not established a position, the Assistant should say so rather than present speculation as 119 doctrine.
• Review child-facing material: parents and guardians should review Kids, Family Study, and simplified material before sharing it with children.
• Report reproducible problems: include the prompt and the exact excerpt that concerns you so support can investigate the same behavior.

• Ask one focused question at a time. “Explain Romans 3:31 in context” is easier to answer precisely than “Explain Romans.”
• Give the angle you care about. For example: “How does 119 understand Matthew 5:17–20 as it relates to whether Torah remains applicable?”
• Use the right Task instead of overloading the prompt. Passage Study, Word Study, Build a Study, Review Content, and Translate already provide specialized structure.
• Ask for sources and context. Request key passages, connected Scriptures, relevant 119 teachings, major objections, or a distinction between the biblical text and interpretation.
• Continue follow-ups in the same chat while the subject remains the same. Start a New Chat when you move to a different subject or bring in substantially different context.
• Use Boost or Super Boost for reasoning difficulty, not simply for length. A simple question can still use Standard even if you ask for a detailed answer.

• Light and dark appearance: use the site's appearance control to choose the view that is most comfortable on your device.
• Add to Home Screen: on iPhone/iPad, use Safari's Share menu and choose Add to Home Screen. On Android, use your browser menu and choose Add to Home screen.
• What's New: check the What's New page for release notes, newly added features, known issues, and upcoming work.
• Need help: use Contact Support for 119 Assistant technical or account problems.

Use the least power that comfortably fits the question. More power is helpful for difficult reasoning, but it also uses more credits.