{"id":5932,"date":"2020-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:55:02","slug":"day-21-the-secret-of-praying-the-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/13\/day-21-the-secret-of-praying-the-scriptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 21: The Secret Of Praying The Scriptures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrayer, 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs you pray the Scriptures, don\u2019t 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\u2019s 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hope you exercise yourself in praying the Scriptures until you\u2019re sold! Once you come alive to this secret, you will want to take your Bible to every place of prayer. You\u2019ll take it to your secret place; you\u2019ll take it to your home group; you\u2019ll take it to corporate prayer meetings. You\u2019ll even find yourself praying the word while driving your car!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat 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!\u201d\u2014Bob Sorge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInfuse my prayer life Lord, with Your very Words. Fill my heart and words with Your thoughts and burdens. I don\u2019t want to pray my own priorities. I don\u2019t 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\u2019m not praying, but You are praying Your heart through me. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be more vigilant in how and what you are praying. Always ask, \u2018Am I praying according God\u2019s Word and God\u2019s heart?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe 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. \u201cPrayer, in the true biblical sense, is the full spectrum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-50-days-pilgrim-challenge","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t