Answer: Bible-Enriched Prayer gives some good guidelines.
- Pick a passage. (for example start with the Psalms.) It's good to follow a particular book of the Bible from 1st chapter to the last.
- As you read a phrase or sentence of the passage, be asking (i.e. keep in mind) the questions below and add your own as well.
- If the Scripture supplies an answer to one of those particular questions, then immediately raise a prayer to God. It could be a prayer of Adoration (praise), Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication (asking for something for yourself or someone else) or Surrender (promising to change an area of your life with God's help). This is the ACTSS formula
- Then move on to read the next phrase or sentence. Pray as the Spirit brings to mind something in answer to the questions, and proceed all the way through the passage you've chosen for that time of communication with God.
Questions:
Is there a note for praise or thanksgiving?
Is there a sin for me to confess or one to avoid?
Is there a promise for me to claim?
Is there a command for me to obey?
Is there a bad habit I need to break or a good habit I need to establish?
Is there an attitude that needs changing?
Is there a new thought about the Father, Christ, The Holy Spirit, the Devil, or some aspect of my life in Christ that I need to correlate with other practical knowledge of the faith?
Is there someone for whom I need to intercede?
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