{"id":3926,"date":"2015-12-16T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2015-12-16T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T20:00:07","slug":"praying-with-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/12\/16\/praying-with-scripture","title":{"rendered":"Praying With Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(the fol\u00adlow\u00ading is adapt\u00aded from an email I sent to our stu\u00addents and to our prayer team recent\u00adly):<\/p>\n<p>I encour\u00adage you to make it your goal to grow spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly as we cel\u00ade\u00adbrate the birth of Christ. Come back to school more on fire than when you left!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources to help you grow in your prayer life by root\u00ading your prayers in God\u2019s Word.\u00c2&nbsp;Tim Kerr explains the pow\u00ader of this very well in his book\u00c2&nbsp;<em>Take Words With You<\/em>\u00c2&nbsp;(avail\u00adable online as\u00c2&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.desiringgod.org\/pdf\/blog\/3183_TWWY_3rd%20edition_online%20version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a free PDF<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two words that are very pow\u00ader\u00adful when used in\u00c2&nbsp;prayer. These words are sim\u00adply, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you said\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. In Gen\u00ade\u00adsis 31:2, God makes a promise to Jacob. Involved in that promise is one of the most faith-giv\u00ading promis\u00ades in Scripture\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I will be with you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. A promise that means God will do us good and pour out his favour upon us! Then lat\u00ader, when in deep crises, Jacob cries out to God in\u00c2&nbsp;prayer\u00c2&nbsp;and reminds God of his promise to him. Lis\u00adten to what he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But\u00c2&nbsp;<strong>you said<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI will sure\u00adly do you good\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and Jacob said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153O God of my father Abra\u00adham and God of my father Isaac,\u00c2&nbsp;<strong>O LORD who said to me<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcReturn to your coun\u00adtry and to your kin\u00addred, that I may do you good.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Gen 32:12, 32:9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fuel of an inter\u00adces\u00adsor is the promis\u00ades of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The fuel of an inter\u00adces\u00adsor is the promis\u00ades of God. <\/i>Wow.\u00c2&nbsp;Isn\u2019t that inspiring?\u00c2&nbsp;Here are three arti\u00adcles that have helped me root my\u00c2&nbsp;prayer\u00ads\u00c2&nbsp;in the Word.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeemer.com\/learn\/resources_by_topic\/prayer\/prayer_and_fasting\/speaking_gods_language_how_scripture_can_add_power_to_your_prayers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speak\u00ading God\u2019s Lan\u00adguage: How Scrip\u00adture Can Add Pow\u00ader To Your\u00c2&nbsp;Prayers<\/a>\u00c2&nbsp;(Joni Erick\u00adson Tada)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeemer.com\/learn\/resources_by_topic\/prayer\/prayer_and_fasting\/a_prayer_life_that_nourishes_your_relationship_to_god\/\" target=\"_blank\">A\u00c2&nbsp;Prayer\u00c2&nbsp;Life That Nour\u00adish\u00ades Your Rela\u00adtion\u00adship To God<\/a>\u00c2&nbsp;(Tim Keller)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/kevindeyoung\/2013\/01\/04\/how-to-pray-using-scripture\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To\u00c2&nbsp;Pray\u00c2&nbsp;Using Scrip\u00adture<\/a>\u00c2&nbsp;(Kevin DeY\u00adoung)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope these arti\u00adcles (and Ker\u00adr\u2019s book) are as much of a bless\u00ading to you as they were to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(the fol\u00adlow\u00ading is adapt\u00aded from an email I sent to our stu\u00addents and to our prayer team recent\u00adly): I encour\u00adage you to make it your goal to grow spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly as we cel\u00ade\u00adbrate the birth of Christ. Come back to school more on fire than when you left! Here are some resources to help you grow \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/12\/16\/praying-with-scripture\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cPray\u00ading With Scrip\u00adture\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-11k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3928,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}