Below are two prayers that may be helpful in your pattern of reading and studying Scripture. And here is a sermon Mel Lawrenz some time back about how to make prayer a practical pattern in real life. “Real Prayer: How Prayer Works in Good Time and in Bad Times”…
A Prayer Before Reading Scripture
Open my eyes, gracious Lord, as I turn to your word.
I long to know you, to understand life, and to be changed.
Examine me, Lord, by the floodlight of your truth.
Amen.
A Prayer After Reading Scripture
May the word I have read, Lord, be planted deeply in my mind and heart.
Help me not to walk away and forget it, but to meditate on it and obey it
and so built my life on the rock of your truth.
prayer is fellowship with the spirit.
I ride around on a bicycle as I got sick and had to retire
you are of course blessed as people see your wounds
my wounds came from service to our empire
wounds extreme shamed and unseen
I drive to Illinois to ride my bike around on gravel roads
alone and unseen the wounds are
comfort from the great spirit
as I am blessed
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