Praying through the scriptures

Prayer is something I sometimes struggle with.  I lose focus when I pray or I don’t know what to pray sometimes or I don’t always feel anything so I get discouraged.  Prayer is not about feelings anyways.  It’s about communicating with the God of the universe.  It’s about obedience.  It’s about confessing your sins to God and being in a right relationship with God! Something God has been reminding me lately is the importance of praying through God’s Word.  The Psalms especially are so good to pray through.  Here is an example.

“God you are good and you are Holy.  Help me to understand and discern my sin.  Show me my secret sin that is hidden to me and cleanse me from all that is evil within me.  Keep me from sinning intentionally and let me sin not rule over me but help me to put it to death that I might be blameless before You!  Help the words that I say and the thoughts that I think in my heart to be pleasing to You, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer!” Psalm 19:12-14

Romans 8:26-27 says, "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intecedes for the saints according to the will of  God."

We may not always know how to pray but we just need to be listening to the Holy Spirit and He will show us how to pray.  The Bible is the Word of God and if we don't know what to pray we can always pray His Words back to Him.  He knows what we need and He knows what we desire.  He is a good good father.  Psalm 139:23-24 is also a good prayer to pray.

Psalm 139:23-24-"Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way."

Praying for you and with you that God would draw us closer to Him every day, moment by moment! 

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  1. NinaOctober 4, 2018 at 10:38 PM

    Prayer is an essential part of my life and when i fail to pray I lose focus on what God wants me to do and be. I think one of my favorite verses is Phil. 4:6 : Be anxious about nothing... it helps me "being in a right relationship with God." I like your reminder of "the importance of praying through God's word".

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