Praying Scripture - A Short Example
It is recounted that the great 18th Century preacher, George Whitefield, fashioned his devotional reading time in a rigorous manner as a young believer. He would spend an hour on his knees pouring over the Greek New Testament, then read Matthew Henry's Commentary , and finally he would pray over every line and word of both the English translation and Greek New Testament "till the passage, in its essential message, has veritably become part of his own soul" (Arnold Dallimore, " George Whitfield ," Vol. 1, pg 83). It's a milder form of this last part of Whitefield's early habit that has become something of my own practice, which I am sharing with you in brief. As I read through the Psalms daily, I find them inviting me to follow Whitefield's fashion. Thus, to read Psalm 5 ( you can pull it up here ) one notices that it voices a treacherous situation going on in David's life. And so, here's how my prayer from Psalm 5 looks. See if it fits your...