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Praying the Scriptures: Communicating with God in His Own Words
One of the most frustrating aspects of prayer is not being able to find the right words to express what dwells deep within your heart. Bringing the Scriptures into your personal prayer life can greatly expand your vocabulary with God.
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First published January 1, 1982
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April 7, 2020
Expectations are an interesting thing. I had a certain expectation of this book and it was different than said expectation. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I thought this book would sort of teach you how to incorporate Scripture into your prayers. It does not. Rather, it tells you ways Scripture influences prayer and gives numerous examples of why Scripture is important to prayer. All good things and I appreciated them. There was a LOT of Scripture in the book and examples straight from the Bible. That's always good.
Basically, when it comes down to it, to pray Scripture organically, you have to know Scripture. Memorization. I've never been great at retaining memorized Scripture. I can memorize it for a time, but then it leaves. So that will be interesting. For now, I've taken to trying to pray parts of my devotional time.
One big thing I did not like and a reason I would not recommend this book to new believers without a caveat - Cornwall repeatedly talks about "releasing God to work" or "granting God permission to do what He wants to do in our lives" and things of a similar nature to that. This kind of language is a huge problem for me. It puts way too much power and responsibility in our hands and I don't see Scriptural support for it.
I read this in tandem with Practicing His Presence and it was good to read them at the same time. If you go into this with the right expectation and with discernment (as we always should), then it is a very insightful book.
I thought this book would sort of teach you how to incorporate Scripture into your prayers. It does not. Rather, it tells you ways Scripture influences prayer and gives numerous examples of why Scripture is important to prayer. All good things and I appreciated them. There was a LOT of Scripture in the book and examples straight from the Bible. That's always good.
Basically, when it comes down to it, to pray Scripture organically, you have to know Scripture. Memorization. I've never been great at retaining memorized Scripture. I can memorize it for a time, but then it leaves. So that will be interesting. For now, I've taken to trying to pray parts of my devotional time.
One big thing I did not like and a reason I would not recommend this book to new believers without a caveat - Cornwall repeatedly talks about "releasing God to work" or "granting God permission to do what He wants to do in our lives" and things of a similar nature to that. This kind of language is a huge problem for me. It puts way too much power and responsibility in our hands and I don't see Scriptural support for it.
I read this in tandem with Practicing His Presence and it was good to read them at the same time. If you go into this with the right expectation and with discernment (as we always should), then it is a very insightful book.
March 2, 2020
This book has been sitting on my bookshelf with a slip of paper holding my place for years. I've only got a shelf or two left of books that I purchased and have not written, and I am glad I finished this, as the first chapter I read had a passage that very much relates to my current situation.
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December 2, 2020Slow getting into it at first but one I ended up enjoying and would read again.
December 12, 2013
Excellent book. I liked his approach in using the bible as basically a prayer book. A meaty, thoughtful, and useful book.
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