Posts with the tag “praying-the-scriptures”

Yesterday I wrote about Paul praying for “fullness,” and I want to come back to that.  When you read the book of Acts, the Spirit of God comes into people, and everything changes.  The church booms, t...  Read More

I closed yesterday’s sermon with Ephesians 3:19, “and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fulness of God.”  I said to you, but please understand I w...  Read More

One page of my Prayer Journal simply had the prayer of Paul in Philippians 1:9-11.  Years ago, I memorized it in the NIV and that tends to stick with me as I come to this passage.  I absolutely love p...  Read More

This morning, I found myself in the midst of James 1 where he speaks about temptation…basically he says, it doesn’t come from God; rather, it comes from the desires that are inside of us.  As I wrote ...  Read More

The pages I’m sharing from my Prayer Journal are the ones I start with after reading the Scripture.  This morning, I read Hebrews 13 and spent a while in the writer’s benediction.  In verse 21 he remi...  Read More

Got back from Southeast Asia yesterday…from the time we left the hotel to the time I arrived back at home only took 32 hours!  Jetlag does a lot to the body, but one of the best parts of it is that I ...  Read More

As I read the Word of God, the Holy Spirit often takes me to other passages and those passages often lead me to prayer.  For example, I was meditating on Romans 8 and came across these words, (vs 5) “...  Read More

So, this is how I've learned to read the Scriptures and pray them as I'm reading.  I'm reading 2 Thessalonians 1 in the NLT and come across verse 3, "Dear brothers and sisters, we can''t help but than...  Read More

I hope you are already putting yesterday’s sermon into practice.  I want to challenge you to make praying for the lost a priority in your day-to-day lifeAs I was reading my Bible this morning,...  Read More