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I take Tuesday afternoons to pray from 2-5 hours. This has
been my habit for over forty years.
The core of my daily praying life centers around reading
Scripture.
I start the morning off by reading Psalms and Proverbs.
I am now using the Kindle
version of the NIV Cultural BackgroundsStudy Bible. This is the best Study Bible I have ever seen!
I also read out of The Message.
I take small pieces of Scripture. My reading is
qualitative, not quantitative. Often I get stuck on one verse, or one section.
I come back to it day after day until God releases me from it.
In the evening I am slow-cooking in the book of Acts. This
is because of what God is now doing at Redeemer. I am slowly reading Acts as if I have never
read it before. in Acts we see the Prototype of what Normal Church should be.
As I read Scripture and often meditate on it, God speaks to
me. When God speaks to me, I write it down in my journal.
Since praying is essentially a relationship, and not a duty, my prayer relationship with God is grounded in intentional times with God. These carry me throughout the days.
