Prayer, Scripture and Soul
Prayer, Scripture and Soul
This week’s blog is meant to help us prepare to lean into God and find our home. It is our prayer that you will be edified and equipped. We also ask that share our blogs with others, tweet, repost, email to your friends, or just tell someone about them. Enjoy the read!
Read & Meditate
2 Chronicles 7:14:“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Reflect & Restructure
Prayer is, at its heart, the communication that is the fabric of the human being relationship with its Father, God. Praying together was one of the hallmarks of the church from its start. In Acts, they gathered to pray in the days after Christ's death -- this is even before the big event in Acts 2 that started the church. Then right after that first event, they devoted themselves to prayer. How do we start? Just pray, offering whatever we're thinking and feeling to the Lord. Whatever we bring, it's a start. As we pray more regularly or more often, the usual experience is that a strange thing starts happening to us. We start being more truthful in prayer, we start turning away from what we did wrong, our attitude become more confident, we start taking the time to listen, we start looking for the signs of divine dialogue in our daily life, we start hungering to read the Scriptures, we start wanting to pray with others, we also think less and less about ourselves.
This year, in 2025, why don’t we start with inviting God to speak into our spirit to help enable full surrender of our souls. This year start with what we could call “extended time of soul searching”. Start with focusing more on soul searching with God is always a good thing and will bring ourselves to a place of awareness of the need to guard our souls. This is accomplished through more time alone with God and is not because lengthy confession or repentance is more acceptable than brief confession or repentance, but because we need time to dig into our souls with scripture and The Holy Spirit in order to discern where did that response come from? Why is difficult to forgive? Why does that keep showing up in our life? It does take time to mediate on how scripture that will divide and dive into our souls to help us discover those things and begin to get free from them.
Utilize your time in prayer and reflection, meditation, lingering in the presence of God to lead to change rather than trying. This will assist us with recalibrating our minds for another battle and other challenges that will come our way. We must schedule time for it, even in an extremely busy schedule, late at night or early in the morning.
God is no hurry, He wants to spend time with us and knows our heart. Why don’t we seek out the still, quiet moments to allow Him to show us our heart?
Respond and Implement
Read the scripture and pray it back to God before you start your day without cell phones, ipads or technology.
Pray when we have trouble concentrating or have a decision to make
Send an email prayer to a family member, coworker or friend
His Grace and Peace Be with you!