“The Bible is one massive Prayer Book. Virtually every page contains prayer prompts. As you take time to soak in His word, not only is your meditation sweet, but you find yourself spontaneously expressing your heart back to God in response to the text.

“Prayer, in the true biblical sense, is the full spectrum of human expressions to God. Prayer is the all-encompassing title to describe the entire gamut of expressions we offer up to God. Therefore, prayer includes praise, thanksgiving, adoration, intercession, worship, supplication, shouts of joy, lifting of hands, bowing, honor, exaltation, intimate affection, repentance, surrender, dancing, mourning, contemplation, spiritual warfare, prophesying, etc. So when the Scriptures begin to prompt your prayers, you can expect your prayers to cover a wide gamut of expressions.

“As you pray the Scriptures, don’t be afraid of repetition. The repetition of meaningful words and phrases works powerfully to lodge them in your spirit, and causes truth to have its full impact in your heart and mind. We want God’s word to enter our hearts, grab our attention with its impact, enlarge and expand our hearts with passionate longing, enter into the fabric of our speech and actions, and bear fruit unto eternal life.

“I hope you exercise yourself in praying the Scriptures until you’re sold! Once you come alive to this secret, you will want to take your Bible to every place of prayer. You’ll take it to your secret place; you’ll take it to your home group; you’ll take it to corporate prayer meetings. You’ll even find yourself praying the word while driving your car!

“What a mighty gift God has given in His word. He has given us a way to bypass the self-centered, human-based, pity-filled praying toward which our souls want to gravitate. We can step into His mind, His thoughts, His expressions, His priorities, and pray according to His will from His word in the power of the Holy Spirit. Awesome!”—Bob Sorge

My Prayer

“Infuse my prayer life Lord, with Your very Words. Fill my heart and words with Your thoughts and burdens. I don’t want to pray my own priorities. I don’t want to follow my own desires and the demands of my flesh. I want Your Words to fill every aspect of my being so that in reality, I’m not praying, but You are praying Your heart through me. Amen.”

The Challenge

Be more vigilant in how and what you are praying. Always ask, ‘Am I praying according God’s Word and God’s heart?”