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| www.PrayerMeetings.org Supplying resource material for praying believers and their leaders on: Prayer and The Prayer Meeting Other Subjects: The Attributes of God, The Death of Christ. |
| Scripture Praying |
| Scripture Praying “Scriptures for Worship Based Prayer” Some Scripture Texts are revised for personalization. Also there outlines that help use the Scripture for Prayer. Instructions for Use Scripture Praying make us more Biblical. What could be more appropriate? Using God’s Word as a base to interact with Him assures that our communication is successful and honors Him. Scripture Praying is not just reading the Scripture in a spiritual frame of mind. Scripture Praying is not like reading a prayer. When Scripture Praying we put ourselves into the Scripture and the Scriptures into ourselves and let what it is saying become our heart felt desire that we then express as from our heart to God’s heart. If using the prayers written by man can be helpful how much more so what God has written. Personalize the Word as you read it. Ponder the Word. Internalize the Word. Mediate on its personal meaning. Own it and Express it as our own. Scripture Praying uses the Scripture as an outline for our prayer. What it says about God – we say. What the writer of Scripture says in the prayer we make that out prayer, i.e. follow his example thought for thought make it fit our life circumstances. When we Scripture Pray it will cause us, and those who hear, us to grow in our knowledge and appreciation of God. Using God’s Words in prayer is necessary for both private prayer and for corporate prayer. This method has extra benefits when used in corporate prayer. It sets the tone for the meeting, gives the Holy Spirit more liberty to use the Word, and it teaches others (especially those immature in prayer) how to worship in prayer. When we use the Scripture to give us content for our prayer we then are able to extol God as He really is and to acknowledge ourselves as we really are. It is important that we pray out loud. Doing so puts more of our sensory faculties to work giving us greater concentration and more through expression. The table of contents in Judson Cornwall’s book Praying the Scriptures is: Praying the Scriptures Introduces Us to Prayer, Invites Us to Prayer, Involves Us in Prayer, Instructs Us in Prayer, Illustrates Prayer, Initiates Our Prayer, Inspires Our Prayer, Illuminates Our Prayer, Increases Our Prayer, Insures Our Prayer, Becomes an Ingredient of Prayer, Gives Intelligence to Our Prayer, Gives Imagery to Our Prayer, Gives Identification to Our Prayer, Gives Intonation to Our Prayer, Gives Intensity to Our Prayer, Gives Intimacy to Our Prayer, Gives Incense to Our Prayer, Gives Intercession to Our Prayer, Gives Immorality to Our Prayer It is recommended that you print this list of Scripture Prayers and take it with you to both secret prayer and corporate prayer and use it to pray with God’s thoughts. It is hoped that the user will add his own personalized Scriptures to this list. Ultimately the believer needs to use the entire Bible for “Scripture Praying”. |