Praying the Scripture

Tonight at our prayer meeting we will be attempting to pray through selected Psalms. Our prayers often seem cold and ineffectual. If we pray the Scripture, we will have greater assurance our prayers will be effectual. The revealed will of God read and meditated upon will calibrate our prayers on the True North of Christ and His Word.

Like the regulative principle of worship, maybe we should also practice the regulative principle of prayer. God's Word, the only certain rule of faith and obedience, should regulate our cries to God. There are times of groaning and pleading that arise from are circumstances. We should allow the Truth to be the response to our circumstances. Too often, our circumstances govern our thinking instead of the Truth as revealed in His Word.

May the Lord be pleased to visit us in prayer as we affirm His Truth.