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Don Whitney says you need to learn how to pray the Bible, and he says it\u2019s easy to do.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>A person who is led to Christ this morning\u2014he\u2019s never been in church a <em>day<\/em> in his life \/ he\u2019s never read one verse of the Bible before in his life\u2014he could do this. You show him, with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm, and he goes, \u201cLord, shepherd me as I grow as a Christian.\u201d Well, he got it! He may not understand many of the rest of the verses\u2014but he\u2019s going to skip those, and that is fine\u2014he\u2019s going to pray about the things he does understand. Yes, he may not pray about them perfectly; but you know what? It\u2019s going to be more biblically-sound than if he tried to pray without the Bible.\n\nWhen you pray the Bible, the Bible shapes your prayers. You are <em>edified<\/em> by the Word of God when you are praying \/ you are <em>taught<\/em> by the word of God when you are praying\u2014that doesn\u2019t happen when you make up your own prayers.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, January 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\n\n<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\nIf you would like to pray more effectively, more passionately, and more regularly in 2017 than you did in 2016, we\u2019ve got some thoughts for you. Stay with us.\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I am about to ask you a question that I hope you won\u2019t ask me in return; okay?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>No promises.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I would like to know, on a scale from one to ten, if you were rating your prayer life\u2014ten being, \u201cI could teach George Mueller a few things about prayer,\u201d\u2014and\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s a nice standard. [Laughter] In case our listeners wonder about him [George], he only had over 50,000 <em>specific<\/em> answers to prayer.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>He kept a journal of that. So that\u2019s a ten; okay? And a one would be: \u201cI need to go back to kindergarten on prayer.\u201d So where would you put your prayer life on that scale?\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, north of one\u2014[Laughter]\u2014but way south of George Mueller\u2014[Laughter] \u2014four or five. I am working on it here, recently.\n\n<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\nBarbara is much more of prayer warrior than I am. It\u2019s both convicting and comforting to be married to somebody who sets a high standard. She\u2019s not George Mueller, but it would be interesting to hear how she would answer that question as well.\n\nLet\u2019s ask our guest on the program.\n\nSo you [Bob] don\u2019t want\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Thank you; just leave me\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014you don\u2019t want\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Keep me off the hook here; will you?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I love it that you would ask me that question, but\u2014[Laughter]\n\nDr. Don Whitney joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Dr. Whitney, you teach Spiritual Life at The Southern Baptist Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> It\u2019s called Biblical Spirituality\u2014Professor of Biblical Spirituality.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> That\u2019s right; and an Associate Dean there\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014so you ought to be right up there with George Mueller\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014knocking on George Mueller\u2019s door; right?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Where are you?\n\n<strong>Don<\/strong>: You know, I don\u2019t know <em>anyone<\/em>\u2014that I really admire for their godliness\u2014who feels good about their prayer life. I think everyone says, \u201cI aspire to be so much better than I am.\u201d I think we are <em>all<\/em> aware of our lack of prayer\u2014prayer-less-ness\u2014and wonder about the number of unanswered prayers.\n\n<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\nI don\u2019t know <em>anyone<\/em> who said they couldn\u2019t pray more. What was Billy Graham famous for saying?\u2014you know: \u201cI wished I\u2019d prayed more,\u201d as he looked back over his life and ministry. What was his one regret?\u2014\u201cI wished I\u2019d prayed more.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes; you know, Dr. Whitney, here is what I want you to do at the beginning of this broadcast. If you had to share with our listeners <em>the<\/em> most important lesson you have learned in walking with God and about prayer\u2014you have been doing this now for how long?\u2014I am not talking about how long you have been teaching\u2014just tell them about how long you have been walking with God.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Since I was nine years old.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s fifty-plus years.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So what would you say is the most important lesson you could pass on to our listeners about prayer?\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>It would be the lessons I\u2019ve put into the little book called, <em>Praying the Bible<\/em>\u2014that to pray the words of Scripture is the safest ground of prayer and the way to eliminate the almost universal problem in prayer, which is to say the same old things about the same old things; and that\u2019s <em>boring<\/em>.\n\n<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\nWhen prayer is boring, you don\u2019t feel like praying. If you don\u2019t feel like praying, you don\u2019t pray with any fervency \/ with any consistency. The simple permanent biblical solution to this almost universal problem is: \u201cWhen you pray, pray the words of Scripture \/ pray the Bible.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Is this something that you have come to recently?\u2014or how did this discipline emerge in your life?\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Yes; I have pastored for about 24 years\u201415 years in one particular church, in the suburbs of Chicago, before I became a seminary professor. We had a series of meetings in our church\u2014a man was preaching\u2014you know, Sunday through Wednesday night\u2014and on the weekday mornings, he was doing a Bible study. He was going through the prayers of the Apostle Paul. Many of us have heard that kind of teaching before, and it was very good\u2014he was encouraging us to pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul.\n\nAt one point, he held up his Bible and said, \u201cFolks, when you pray, use the Prayer Book.\u201d\n\n<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\nIt just suddenly dawned on me\u2014the <em>whole<\/em> Bible was a prayer book. We could pray, not just the prayers in Ephesians; we could pray the whole <em>letter<\/em> of Ephesians. From that point, I began to pray the Bible; and I then centered pretty much on praying the Psalms. It was <em>years<\/em> later before I discovered this was an ancient Christian practice. Then I discovered the places in the Bible, in the New Testament, where Jesus and the Apostles prayed Psalms. That was transformational for me.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It just so happens that my Bible opened to Ephesians, Chapter 5\u2014I had something about prayer in that section of my Bible.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and he also had some ministry on marriage and family\u2014so Ephesians, Chapter 5\u2014you\u201dd think it might flip open to that one.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; I want you to go to verse 22 of Ephesians 5. I want you to demonstrate what you are talking about, because you just said the most important lesson you could pass on to our listeners is to be more intentional about praying the words of Scripture.\n\n<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\nI could almost hear a mom, a dad, a single person, listening to this broadcast, going, \u201cSay what?\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cHow do you do that?\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cWhat does that sound like? What does that mean?\u201d I am kind of teeing it up for you\u2014I\u2019m sure you know what to do.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Can he go back to [verse] 21?\u2014because I think, if you are going to start this, you ought to start in 21. Isn\u2019t that where it says, \u201cSubmit yourselves one to another\u201d?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You can go back there if you want, Bob.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay; if I\u2019m going to start this prayer, I\u2019d start at 21.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> This isn\u2019t the place where I normally illustrate it for people the first time.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> But I\u2019m happy to\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> But we\u2019ve put you on the spot.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Hey, you\u2019ve put me on the spot. I\u2014usually after illustrating it in one of the Psalms, usually the 23<sup>rd <\/sup>Psalm\u2014then go to one of the Epistles. I think that is the second-best place in Scripture from which to pray Scripture. Turning the words of Scripture into prayer really is just talking to God about what comes to mind when you read the text.\n\nVerse 21 says,\u201d Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.\u201d\n\n<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\nFirst of all, I would pray something about: \u201cLord, I do want to show reverence for You. You are my Lord; You are my Savior \/ my King, Lord Jesus Christ. I want myself \/ I want my spouse to have a reverence for You in my life \/ in our home. This text tells us to submit to one other. I want to do that \/ we want to do that. As Christians, help us to understand fully what that means in our home and to submit to one another.\u201d\n\nWhat we are doing here, mainly, is <em>praying<\/em>. We\u2019re praying, while secondarily, we are glancing at the text. My argument is: \u201cWhatever comes to mind, turn it God-ward; <em>because<\/em> the Bible teaches us to pray about <em>everything<\/em>\u201d; right? So everything that comes to mind is something worthy of prayer. I do know this\u2014that if people make up their own prayers, which is what they usually do, and they pray without the Bible\u2014they are certainly going to pray off base and some strange things.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You know, I am listening to you and I\u2019m going, \u201cI need to be more intentional about doing that.\u201d\n\n<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\nWhen I read the Bible\u2014instead of just pondering what the Bible says\u2014but instead, begin to express it back to God about how it applies to my life and what I want to take away. You said this isn\u2019t Bible study\u2014but in a way, it is the ultimate Bible study\u2014because you are calling on God to <em>apply<\/em> what you are hearing and reading to your own life.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis <\/strong>I am reflecting back, now, to back last summer. We are, here, at the beginning of a new year\u2014this is a time when people do a lot of reflecting on things. Well, back last summer, I was reflecting on FamilyLife\u2019s 40 years of ministry. I had a number of hours\u2014Bob and I would sit down here in the studio\u2014we reflected back upon God\u2019s goodness over the past 40 years. Barbara had been in here with us \/ we\u2019d done video. I actually had the privilege of probably doing 15-20 hours of reflection, verbally, of the goodness of God.\n\nAfter our 40<sup>th<\/sup> was over, back last summer, I read the last verse of Psalm 45, which says this:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\n\u201cI will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore, nations will praise you forever and ever.\u201d I sat there reading that\u2014I\u2019m going: \u201cI don\u2019t know all of what that means, but I have just had the privilege\u201d\u2014because there were people from 20 nations, here in our offices, celebrating 40 years. There were a number of other nations, from five continents \/ 3,900 people who watched, online, our 40<sup>th<\/sup> celebration\u2014I felt like: \u201cYou know what? I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations.\u201d When you pass on the reality of Jesus Christ to a family, you are making an impact in generations.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I can imagine, Don, there are times when, as you are praying a passage of Scripture, you wind up with one verse\u2014maybe even a phrase from a verse\u2014\n\n<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014and that is really where the meditation takes you \/ that is where your prayer is focused. It\u2019s not like you have to pray through a chapter or even a whole Psalm.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right. I was teaching this once out in Santa Rosa, California, and gave people an opportunity to try it\u2014and suggested they do so with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm because that is where I like to go first to show people how to do it with a few verses. I then gave them a chance to try it, and they carried it on through. A woman came back; and she had prayed 25 minutes and never got past, \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd.\u201d\n\nI don\u2019t think the Lord was up, there, going, \u201cYou didn\u2019t finish that Psalm!\u201d I think He was delighted she could find so much delight in Him as her shepherd \/ she could talk to Him 25 minutes about being her shepherd. But, Bob, the very next day, she may have been up in Psalm 22\u2014that has 31 verses\u2014maybe only half a dozen things came to mind that prompted prayer\u2014that\u2019s <em>fine<\/em>. The great thing about this method is: \u201cIf you have more time, just turn the page.\u201d\n\n<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\nYou never run out of anything to say. And here\u2019s the best part\u2014you <em>never<\/em> again say the same old things about the same old things.\n\nI have discovered, in teaching this, literally, over 500 times, that people will find themselves praying much longer than they are used to \/ they intended to; whereas, often, they might struggle for five to seven minutes\u2014their mind is wandering half the time. They\u2019ll suddenly come to themselves and say:\u201dWait a minute! Where was I? I haven\u2019t been thinking of God for the last several minutes.\u201d They find themselves with these reminders in the text\u2014that if their minds do wander, and we are human, eventually we will \/ we are tired or whatever\u2014that we got something to come back to\u2014the next verse. Because it\u2019s fresh\u2014it\u2019s not the same old words we always say\u2014it tends to keep our attention and our focus longer and continue the prayer.\n\nThis week, when I was teaching the class, I gave students an opportunity to pray for 20 minutes. They all said they could have kept going.\n\n<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\nIn fact, I give them an assignment, as I do in all my classes, where the students are to spend four consecutive hours alone with God. At first, they kind of gulp and think, \u201cWhat am I going to do for four hours?\u201d But after I have taught this\u2014and about how to meditate on Scripture\u2014<em>most<\/em> of them will simply alternate between the two. Almost every student always writes that they spent more than four hours, not because they had to\u2014they were enjoying it so much.\n\nIf you have four hours to pray, you just keep turning the page and you never run out of anything to say, and you don\u2019t repeat yourself. But another good thing about this method is\u2014if you only have four minutes to pray,which is going to be closer to reality for most people most days, this still works. You just don\u2019t get as far in the text.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And as you are reading the text, if God brings to mind a person\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014a family member\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014maybe an enemy\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014there is an opportunity to take that person and that relationship before Almighty God and say to Him: \u201cYou know, God, You have said here that You cause my enemies to be at peace with me. I don\u2019t know how You are going to do that\u2014\n\n<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cbut I ask You to bring two friends of mine, whom I know quite well, who are really in a major disagreement with each other. I ask You to work out this Scripture between them.\u201d Use the prompting of those people, who come to mind, as you are reading the Bible, to, as you pray the Bible\u2014pray for them.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; here\u2019s what happens\u2014people always discover that they will pray about things they would <em>never<\/em> have thought to pray about. If they had a prayer list as big as the New York City phone directory, they would have never thought to pray for this particular thing. But it\u2019s on God\u2019s heart, and it\u2019s prompted by the text. On the other hand, people find that they pray about the things they normally <em>do<\/em> pray about, but in fresh ways.\n\nMy argument is that we pray <em>about<\/em> the same old things all the time.That\u2019s not the problem\u2014the problem is we <em>say<\/em> the same old things about the same old things. I find most people pray about six things every time.\n\n<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\nIf I ask them to go pray, and do not prompt them, they will pray about the same six things: their family, some broad sense or another; their future, some decision maybe that\u2019s before them\u2014their family; their future; their finances, God\u2019s provision for bills or whatever; their work, or if they are students, their schoolwork; their church, or ministry, or Christian concern; and the current crisis in their life, the thing they don\u2019t need any reminder to pray about. Well, if those six things dominate your prayer life, that\u2019s <em>normal<\/em>; because, <em>thankfully<\/em>, those things don\u2019t change dramatically very often.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Those are the areas where life is coming at us.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s where we live; yes.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>There is almost nothing in your life that is not related to those six. Thank the Lord they don\u2019t change dramatically very often. If you are going to pray about your life\u2014and these six things <em>are<\/em> your life and these six things don\u2019t change dramatically very often\u2014it means you are going to pray <em>about<\/em> the same old things all the time. That\u2019s not the problem\u2014the problem is that we <em>say<\/em> the same old things. But when you pray the Scripture, those things will come to your mind; because that\u2019s your life. But when you pray them through a different passage of Scripture, it\u2019s a different prayer. Instead of just \u201cBless my family,\u201d\u2014if I pray through Psalm 23\u2014it comes out as: \u201cShepherd my family today.\u201d\n\n<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\nThe shepherding imagery just changes everything.\n\nIf it is Psalm 139: \u201cLord may my family sense your presence wherever they go today.\u201d See, it\u2019s still the same prayer, \u201cBless my family\u201d; but it\u2019s a <em>different<\/em> prayer when you pray it through a different passage.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You are coaching men\u2014husbands\/dads\u2014to know how to pray for their wives and for their children. I know there\u2019s got to be dads right now, listening to us, going, \u201cOne of the most threatening things I do is pray with my wife.\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Can you tee it up, almost like a golf ball on a wooden tee, for a husband to go home tonight\u2014-\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014maybe it is at the dinner table, maybe it is when they go to bed \/ maybe it\u2019s as they are lying there in bed, about to doze off and go to sleep\u2014could you give a husband a great prayer to pray over his wife that comes out of Scripture?\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> There are a number I suppose, like Ephesians 5, we could mention and so forth\u2014passages particularly on being a husband \/ on being a father\u2014on those family kinds of texts\u2014\n\n<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014but, really, this method will work with almost <em>any<\/em> text in the Bible. Even like you said\u2014if you are lying there in bed, you don\u2019t want to reach over and get your Bible\u2014almost <em>any<\/em> text that comes to mind. You are lying there\u2014and you want to pray something or before the meal: \u201cLord, Your Word tells us to seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness. Help us to do that, as a couple. Amen,\u201d or \u201cLord, help us to use this food at this meal to strengthen us to better seek Your Kingdom and Your righteousness.\u201d\u00a0 Almost <em>any<\/em> verse\u2014you can pray that prayer\u2014that whether it is for the family or whatever\u2014through the lens of that verse.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Back to the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm?\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> A husband is called to be the shepherd of his family.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So pull that out\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Okay.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201423<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm \/ look at it\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cLord, thank You for my wife. I pray that I would be a good shepherd, as You are over us.\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: \u201c<\/strong>For my wife\u2014-\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cI pray that she would fear no evil.\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cHelp me to know how to understand what her fears are\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014and meet her needs.\u201d I like this because you are providing\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014hope.\n\n<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Don: \u201c<\/strong>And I pray for our children to love You, as their shepherd, as we do\u2014cause they\u2019re soon to be your sheep too.\u201d I mean, it\u2019s just almost unlimited!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So I would just say\u2014if a guy said: \u201cOkay; I am going to try this. I\u2019ll just start in Matthew, Chapter 1, and start praying the Bible.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s the genealogies.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. Maybe you jump to Matthew 2 to get started. Would you do this?\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Maybe so; but, I can take Matthew 1 [Laughter] and say: \u201cLike some of these examples,\u201d or \u201cLord, may our ancestors\u2014I mean, our <em>heirs<\/em>\u2014may they be pointed toward Christ. I mean, for all of our descendants, for a thousand generations, may they come to You.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, that would work; won\u2019t it? We should try just to stump him\u2014throw some Scripture out\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Oh, yes. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and see if he can turn it into a prayer. [Laughter]\n\nHere\u2019s what I am thinking\u2014many of our listeners will be familiar with the acrostic that a lot of us have heard about prayer\u2014the A-C-T-S acrostic.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So pray with \u201cA\u201ddoration, then with \u201cC\u201donfession, and then with \u201cT\u201dhanksgiving, and then \u201cS\u201dupplication or make your requests known to God. You can take\u2014a verse, a passage, a paragraph\u2014and you can say, \u201cHow can I pray a prayer of adoration from this?\u201d\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cHow can I confess from this? How can I give thanks in this? And what can I ask for in this?\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; you know, Bob,I have taught the ACTS acrostic. I think it is good as far as it goes. But you know what? After a while, that can become the thing\u2014the same old thing.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Sure.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>A person can say: \u201cOkay; I am going to begin with that adoration. How will I adore the Lord today? Well, I guess I will adore Him the same way I did yesterday; because I don\u2019t have the time or the creative energy to think of new ways to adore the Lord.\u201d Good news! You don\u2019t have to come up with new ways to adore the Lord. He has given us 150 chapters of how He wants to be adored in the Book of Psalms. You can\u2019t do any better than that.\n\nA man who may feel as though his wife is his spiritual\u2014more spiritually-mature \/ whose wife knows the Bible better than he does\u2014you can\u2019t do any better than praying the words of Scripture like that. <em>Anyone<\/em> can do this. A six-year-old, who can read, can do this! <em>Anyone<\/em> can do this.\n\nA person who is led to Christ this morning\u2014he\u2019s never been in church a <em>day<\/em> in his life \/ he\u2019s never read one verse of the Bible before in his life\u2014he could do this.\n\n<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\nYou show him, with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm, and he goes, \u201cLord, shepherd me as I grow as a Christian.\u201d Well, he got it! He may not understand many of the rest of the verses\u2014but he\u2019s going to skip those\u2014and that\u2019s fine. He\u2019s going to pray about the things he does understand. Yes, he may not pray about them perfectly; but, you know what? It\u2019s going to be more biblically-sound than if he tried to pray without the Bible. When you pray the Bible, the Bible shapes your prayers. You are <em>edified<\/em> by the Word of God when you are praying \/ you are <em>taught<\/em> by the Word of God when you are praying; and that doesn\u2019t happen when you make up your own prayers.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I want you to speak to this for a moment\u2014as you talk about prayer, I got to tell you, I collide with my Self\u2014the capital \u201cS\u201d Self\u2014I am selfish. I tend to be self-sufficient. I have to deal with pride. Prayer, in its essence, believes that God is.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>It bends our wills before Almighty God to say, \u201cYou are my Maker, my Redeemer, my Master; and I yield to <em>You<\/em>.\u201d\n\n<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\nIt seems to me, at the heart of prayer, is finally coming to the end of yourself and admitting you are not in control; but there\u2019s a God who is.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; when you pray the Bible, it\u2019s a more God-centered way of praying and weans you away from self. It doesn\u2019t eliminate the fact that you are still going to pray about your family, your future, your finances \/ the things you normally want to pray about\u2014but you do so more in a God-centered way\u2014and less in a way of: \u201cLord, here I am, again, to ask You to do for me what I want on this list here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I got to go back to our 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. Bryan Loritts, a good friend of mine, spoke at our 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, back last summer. During his message on prayer, he asked the question: \u201cHow would your world be better?\u201d and then he said, \u201cYou know the problem is\u2014is a lot of our prayers are around our world.\u201d He said: \u201cThe real question is: \u2018How would <em>the<\/em> world be better, or be different, if God answered all your prayers over the past six\/twelve months?\u201d\n\n<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\nI was convicted about that, because I <em>do<\/em> think we get into a rut\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014of just praying for ourselves and our small sphere of just my world. There are some issues taking place\u2014in people\u2019s communities, in our country, in our world\u2014that demand that we take them before God and we ask Him: \u201cWould You go to work on behalf of what we see taking place, here, in America?\u2014the racial strife that seems to continue to rear its ugly head\u2014would You heal our country? Would you be merciful upon us, as a nation?\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; when you pray the Scripture, you pray more kingdom-centered prayers, more gospel-centered prayers, more God-exalting prayers and not just those that relate to your own little life. We are told in 1 John, that we must pray in accordance with His will or He will not hear us. Do you have any greater assurance that you are praying the will of God than when you are praying the Word of God?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s a good point. The Scriptures <em>reveal<\/em> what God wants to do, both in us and through us.\n\n<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, this is a time of yearwhen people look at some of their spiritual disciplines and think, \u201cOkay; how do I want things in the new year to be different than they were in the previous year?\u201d It\u2019s a good opportunity for people to develop some new habits \/ some new patterns in their lives, spiritually. One of those new patterns may be this pattern of praying the Bible. You can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com; and you can order a copy of Don Whitney\u2019s book by that title, <em>Praying the Bible<\/em>. Our website is FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014just order from us online\u2014or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to request the book. Again, the toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329.\n\nNow, as we start a new year, we would like for some of you to consider a new habit, as well, as it relates to FamilyLife. Our program is heard on about 1100 stations and outlets, all across the country.\n\n<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\nIf you divided things up evenly, we have somewhere between four or five families in each of those communities who support <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> as Legacy Partners, monthly donors to this ministry. As you can imagine, it\u2019s our monthly donors who provide the financial stability \/ the backbone for this program and keep us functioning throughout the year.\n\nCan we ask you to join that team?\u2014become one of our Legacy Partners in the year, 2017, and be partners with us in what God is doing through this ministry by making a regular monthly contribution. You can find out more about becoming a Legacy Partner when you go to our website, FamilyLife.com. We would love to have you join the team.\n\n<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\nIf God has used <em>FamilyLife <\/em>Today in your life \/ if you are in alignment with the mission and vision of this ministry\u2014to help effectively develop godly marriages and families who change the world, one home at a time\u2014then become a Legacy Partner today. You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call and say, \u201cI\u2019d like to become a Legacy Partner. Our toll-free number is 1-800-FL-TODAY.\n\nTomorrow, we are going to talk more with Dr. Whitney about how we can practice a new discipline in the new year\u2014learning to pray the Bible each day. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\n\nHelp for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\n\nCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2017 FamilyLife. 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Whitney coaches Christians not to forget to pray the words of Scripture as they seek the Lord, and then shows us how using Ephesians 5:21: \"Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.\"","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2017-01-03.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Could your prayer life use a jump start?\u2014time to refresh things a little bit? Don Whitney says you need to learn how to pray the Bible, and he says it\u2019s easy to do.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>A person who is led to Christ this morning\u2014he\u2019s never been in church a <em>day<\/em> in his life \/ he\u2019s never read one verse of the Bible before in his life\u2014he could do this. You show him, with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm, and he goes, \u201cLord, shepherd me as I grow as a Christian.\u201d Well, he got it! He may not understand many of the rest of the verses\u2014but he\u2019s going to skip those, and that is fine\u2014he\u2019s going to pray about the things he does understand. Yes, he may not pray about them perfectly; but you know what? It\u2019s going to be more biblically-sound than if he tried to pray without the Bible.\n\nWhen you pray the Bible, the Bible shapes your prayers. You are <em>edified<\/em> by the Word of God when you are praying \/ you are <em>taught<\/em> by the word of God when you are praying\u2014that doesn\u2019t happen when you make up your own prayers.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, January 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\n\n<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\nIf you would like to pray more effectively, more passionately, and more regularly in 2017 than you did in 2016, we\u2019ve got some thoughts for you. Stay with us.\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I am about to ask you a question that I hope you won\u2019t ask me in return; okay?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>No promises.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I would like to know, on a scale from one to ten, if you were rating your prayer life\u2014ten being, \u201cI could teach George Mueller a few things about prayer,\u201d\u2014and\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s a nice standard. [Laughter] In case our listeners wonder about him [George], he only had over 50,000 <em>specific<\/em> answers to prayer.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>He kept a journal of that. So that\u2019s a ten; okay? And a one would be: \u201cI need to go back to kindergarten on prayer.\u201d So where would you put your prayer life on that scale?\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, north of one\u2014[Laughter]\u2014but way south of George Mueller\u2014[Laughter] \u2014four or five. I am working on it here, recently.\n\n<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\nBarbara is much more of prayer warrior than I am. It\u2019s both convicting and comforting to be married to somebody who sets a high standard. She\u2019s not George Mueller, but it would be interesting to hear how she would answer that question as well.\n\nLet\u2019s ask our guest on the program.\n\nSo you [Bob] don\u2019t want\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Thank you; just leave me\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014you don\u2019t want\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Keep me off the hook here; will you?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I love it that you would ask me that question, but\u2014[Laughter]\n\nDr. Don Whitney joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Dr. Whitney, you teach Spiritual Life at The Southern Baptist Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> It\u2019s called Biblical Spirituality\u2014Professor of Biblical Spirituality.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> That\u2019s right; and an Associate Dean there\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014so you ought to be right up there with George Mueller\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014knocking on George Mueller\u2019s door; right?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Where are you?\n\n<strong>Don<\/strong>: You know, I don\u2019t know <em>anyone<\/em>\u2014that I really admire for their godliness\u2014who feels good about their prayer life. I think everyone says, \u201cI aspire to be so much better than I am.\u201d I think we are <em>all<\/em> aware of our lack of prayer\u2014prayer-less-ness\u2014and wonder about the number of unanswered prayers.\n\n<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\nI don\u2019t know <em>anyone<\/em> who said they couldn\u2019t pray more. What was Billy Graham famous for saying?\u2014you know: \u201cI wished I\u2019d prayed more,\u201d as he looked back over his life and ministry. What was his one regret?\u2014\u201cI wished I\u2019d prayed more.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes; you know, Dr. Whitney, here is what I want you to do at the beginning of this broadcast. If you had to share with our listeners <em>the<\/em> most important lesson you have learned in walking with God and about prayer\u2014you have been doing this now for how long?\u2014I am not talking about how long you have been teaching\u2014just tell them about how long you have been walking with God.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Since I was nine years old.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s fifty-plus years.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So what would you say is the most important lesson you could pass on to our listeners about prayer?\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>It would be the lessons I\u2019ve put into the little book called, <em>Praying the Bible<\/em>\u2014that to pray the words of Scripture is the safest ground of prayer and the way to eliminate the almost universal problem in prayer, which is to say the same old things about the same old things; and that\u2019s <em>boring<\/em>.\n\n<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\nWhen prayer is boring, you don\u2019t feel like praying. If you don\u2019t feel like praying, you don\u2019t pray with any fervency \/ with any consistency. The simple permanent biblical solution to this almost universal problem is: \u201cWhen you pray, pray the words of Scripture \/ pray the Bible.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Is this something that you have come to recently?\u2014or how did this discipline emerge in your life?\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Yes; I have pastored for about 24 years\u201415 years in one particular church, in the suburbs of Chicago, before I became a seminary professor. We had a series of meetings in our church\u2014a man was preaching\u2014you know, Sunday through Wednesday night\u2014and on the weekday mornings, he was doing a Bible study. He was going through the prayers of the Apostle Paul. Many of us have heard that kind of teaching before, and it was very good\u2014he was encouraging us to pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul.\n\nAt one point, he held up his Bible and said, \u201cFolks, when you pray, use the Prayer Book.\u201d\n\n<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\nIt just suddenly dawned on me\u2014the <em>whole<\/em> Bible was a prayer book. We could pray, not just the prayers in Ephesians; we could pray the whole <em>letter<\/em> of Ephesians. From that point, I began to pray the Bible; and I then centered pretty much on praying the Psalms. It was <em>years<\/em> later before I discovered this was an ancient Christian practice. Then I discovered the places in the Bible, in the New Testament, where Jesus and the Apostles prayed Psalms. That was transformational for me.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It just so happens that my Bible opened to Ephesians, Chapter 5\u2014I had something about prayer in that section of my Bible.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and he also had some ministry on marriage and family\u2014so Ephesians, Chapter 5\u2014you\u201dd think it might flip open to that one.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; I want you to go to verse 22 of Ephesians 5. I want you to demonstrate what you are talking about, because you just said the most important lesson you could pass on to our listeners is to be more intentional about praying the words of Scripture.\n\n<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\nI could almost hear a mom, a dad, a single person, listening to this broadcast, going, \u201cSay what?\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cHow do you do that?\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cWhat does that sound like? What does that mean?\u201d I am kind of teeing it up for you\u2014I\u2019m sure you know what to do.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Can he go back to [verse] 21?\u2014because I think, if you are going to start this, you ought to start in 21. Isn\u2019t that where it says, \u201cSubmit yourselves one to another\u201d?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You can go back there if you want, Bob.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay; if I\u2019m going to start this prayer, I\u2019d start at 21.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> This isn\u2019t the place where I normally illustrate it for people the first time.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> But I\u2019m happy to\u2014\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> But we\u2019ve put you on the spot.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Hey, you\u2019ve put me on the spot. I\u2014usually after illustrating it in one of the Psalms, usually the 23<sup>rd <\/sup>Psalm\u2014then go to one of the Epistles. I think that is the second-best place in Scripture from which to pray Scripture. Turning the words of Scripture into prayer really is just talking to God about what comes to mind when you read the text.\n\nVerse 21 says,\u201d Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.\u201d\n\n<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\nFirst of all, I would pray something about: \u201cLord, I do want to show reverence for You. You are my Lord; You are my Savior \/ my King, Lord Jesus Christ. I want myself \/ I want my spouse to have a reverence for You in my life \/ in our home. This text tells us to submit to one other. I want to do that \/ we want to do that. As Christians, help us to understand fully what that means in our home and to submit to one another.\u201d\n\nWhat we are doing here, mainly, is <em>praying<\/em>. We\u2019re praying, while secondarily, we are glancing at the text. My argument is: \u201cWhatever comes to mind, turn it God-ward; <em>because<\/em> the Bible teaches us to pray about <em>everything<\/em>\u201d; right? So everything that comes to mind is something worthy of prayer. I do know this\u2014that if people make up their own prayers, which is what they usually do, and they pray without the Bible\u2014they are certainly going to pray off base and some strange things.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You know, I am listening to you and I\u2019m going, \u201cI need to be more intentional about doing that.\u201d\n\n<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\nWhen I read the Bible\u2014instead of just pondering what the Bible says\u2014but instead, begin to express it back to God about how it applies to my life and what I want to take away. You said this isn\u2019t Bible study\u2014but in a way, it is the ultimate Bible study\u2014because you are calling on God to <em>apply<\/em> what you are hearing and reading to your own life.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis <\/strong>I am reflecting back, now, to back last summer. We are, here, at the beginning of a new year\u2014this is a time when people do a lot of reflecting on things. Well, back last summer, I was reflecting on FamilyLife\u2019s 40 years of ministry. I had a number of hours\u2014Bob and I would sit down here in the studio\u2014we reflected back upon God\u2019s goodness over the past 40 years. Barbara had been in here with us \/ we\u2019d done video. I actually had the privilege of probably doing 15-20 hours of reflection, verbally, of the goodness of God.\n\nAfter our 40<sup>th<\/sup> was over, back last summer, I read the last verse of Psalm 45, which says this:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\n\u201cI will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore, nations will praise you forever and ever.\u201d I sat there reading that\u2014I\u2019m going: \u201cI don\u2019t know all of what that means, but I have just had the privilege\u201d\u2014because there were people from 20 nations, here in our offices, celebrating 40 years. There were a number of other nations, from five continents \/ 3,900 people who watched, online, our 40<sup>th<\/sup> celebration\u2014I felt like: \u201cYou know what? I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations.\u201d When you pass on the reality of Jesus Christ to a family, you are making an impact in generations.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I can imagine, Don, there are times when, as you are praying a passage of Scripture, you wind up with one verse\u2014maybe even a phrase from a verse\u2014\n\n<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014and that is really where the meditation takes you \/ that is where your prayer is focused. It\u2019s not like you have to pray through a chapter or even a whole Psalm.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right. I was teaching this once out in Santa Rosa, California, and gave people an opportunity to try it\u2014and suggested they do so with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm because that is where I like to go first to show people how to do it with a few verses. I then gave them a chance to try it, and they carried it on through. A woman came back; and she had prayed 25 minutes and never got past, \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd.\u201d\n\nI don\u2019t think the Lord was up, there, going, \u201cYou didn\u2019t finish that Psalm!\u201d I think He was delighted she could find so much delight in Him as her shepherd \/ she could talk to Him 25 minutes about being her shepherd. But, Bob, the very next day, she may have been up in Psalm 22\u2014that has 31 verses\u2014maybe only half a dozen things came to mind that prompted prayer\u2014that\u2019s <em>fine<\/em>. The great thing about this method is: \u201cIf you have more time, just turn the page.\u201d\n\n<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\nYou never run out of anything to say. And here\u2019s the best part\u2014you <em>never<\/em> again say the same old things about the same old things.\n\nI have discovered, in teaching this, literally, over 500 times, that people will find themselves praying much longer than they are used to \/ they intended to; whereas, often, they might struggle for five to seven minutes\u2014their mind is wandering half the time. They\u2019ll suddenly come to themselves and say:\u201dWait a minute! Where was I? I haven\u2019t been thinking of God for the last several minutes.\u201d They find themselves with these reminders in the text\u2014that if their minds do wander, and we are human, eventually we will \/ we are tired or whatever\u2014that we got something to come back to\u2014the next verse. Because it\u2019s fresh\u2014it\u2019s not the same old words we always say\u2014it tends to keep our attention and our focus longer and continue the prayer.\n\nThis week, when I was teaching the class, I gave students an opportunity to pray for 20 minutes. They all said they could have kept going.\n\n<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\nIn fact, I give them an assignment, as I do in all my classes, where the students are to spend four consecutive hours alone with God. At first, they kind of gulp and think, \u201cWhat am I going to do for four hours?\u201d But after I have taught this\u2014and about how to meditate on Scripture\u2014<em>most<\/em> of them will simply alternate between the two. Almost every student always writes that they spent more than four hours, not because they had to\u2014they were enjoying it so much.\n\nIf you have four hours to pray, you just keep turning the page and you never run out of anything to say, and you don\u2019t repeat yourself. But another good thing about this method is\u2014if you only have four minutes to pray,which is going to be closer to reality for most people most days, this still works. You just don\u2019t get as far in the text.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And as you are reading the text, if God brings to mind a person\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014a family member\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014maybe an enemy\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014there is an opportunity to take that person and that relationship before Almighty God and say to Him: \u201cYou know, God, You have said here that You cause my enemies to be at peace with me. I don\u2019t know how You are going to do that\u2014\n\n<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Right.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cbut I ask You to bring two friends of mine, whom I know quite well, who are really in a major disagreement with each other. I ask You to work out this Scripture between them.\u201d Use the prompting of those people, who come to mind, as you are reading the Bible, to, as you pray the Bible\u2014pray for them.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; here\u2019s what happens\u2014people always discover that they will pray about things they would <em>never<\/em> have thought to pray about. If they had a prayer list as big as the New York City phone directory, they would have never thought to pray for this particular thing. But it\u2019s on God\u2019s heart, and it\u2019s prompted by the text. On the other hand, people find that they pray about the things they normally <em>do<\/em> pray about, but in fresh ways.\n\nMy argument is that we pray <em>about<\/em> the same old things all the time.That\u2019s not the problem\u2014the problem is we <em>say<\/em> the same old things about the same old things. I find most people pray about six things every time.\n\n<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\nIf I ask them to go pray, and do not prompt them, they will pray about the same six things: their family, some broad sense or another; their future, some decision maybe that\u2019s before them\u2014their family; their future; their finances, God\u2019s provision for bills or whatever; their work, or if they are students, their schoolwork; their church, or ministry, or Christian concern; and the current crisis in their life, the thing they don\u2019t need any reminder to pray about. Well, if those six things dominate your prayer life, that\u2019s <em>normal<\/em>; because, <em>thankfully<\/em>, those things don\u2019t change dramatically very often.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Those are the areas where life is coming at us.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s where we live; yes.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>There is almost nothing in your life that is not related to those six. Thank the Lord they don\u2019t change dramatically very often. If you are going to pray about your life\u2014and these six things <em>are<\/em> your life and these six things don\u2019t change dramatically very often\u2014it means you are going to pray <em>about<\/em> the same old things all the time. That\u2019s not the problem\u2014the problem is that we <em>say<\/em> the same old things. But when you pray the Scripture, those things will come to your mind; because that\u2019s your life. But when you pray them through a different passage of Scripture, it\u2019s a different prayer. Instead of just \u201cBless my family,\u201d\u2014if I pray through Psalm 23\u2014it comes out as: \u201cShepherd my family today.\u201d\n\n<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\nThe shepherding imagery just changes everything.\n\nIf it is Psalm 139: \u201cLord may my family sense your presence wherever they go today.\u201d See, it\u2019s still the same prayer, \u201cBless my family\u201d; but it\u2019s a <em>different<\/em> prayer when you pray it through a different passage.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You are coaching men\u2014husbands\/dads\u2014to know how to pray for their wives and for their children. I know there\u2019s got to be dads right now, listening to us, going, \u201cOne of the most threatening things I do is pray with my wife.\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Can you tee it up, almost like a golf ball on a wooden tee, for a husband to go home tonight\u2014-\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014maybe it is at the dinner table, maybe it is when they go to bed \/ maybe it\u2019s as they are lying there in bed, about to doze off and go to sleep\u2014could you give a husband a great prayer to pray over his wife that comes out of Scripture?\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> There are a number I suppose, like Ephesians 5, we could mention and so forth\u2014passages particularly on being a husband \/ on being a father\u2014on those family kinds of texts\u2014\n\n<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014but, really, this method will work with almost <em>any<\/em> text in the Bible. Even like you said\u2014if you are lying there in bed, you don\u2019t want to reach over and get your Bible\u2014almost <em>any<\/em> text that comes to mind. You are lying there\u2014and you want to pray something or before the meal: \u201cLord, Your Word tells us to seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness. Help us to do that, as a couple. Amen,\u201d or \u201cLord, help us to use this food at this meal to strengthen us to better seek Your Kingdom and Your righteousness.\u201d\u00a0 Almost <em>any<\/em> verse\u2014you can pray that prayer\u2014that whether it is for the family or whatever\u2014through the lens of that verse.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Back to the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm?\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> A husband is called to be the shepherd of his family.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So pull that out\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Okay.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201423<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm \/ look at it\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cLord, thank You for my wife. I pray that I would be a good shepherd, as You are over us.\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: \u201c<\/strong>For my wife\u2014-\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cI pray that she would fear no evil.\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cHelp me to know how to understand what her fears are\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014and meet her needs.\u201d I like this because you are providing\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014hope.\n\n<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Don: \u201c<\/strong>And I pray for our children to love You, as their shepherd, as we do\u2014cause they\u2019re soon to be your sheep too.\u201d I mean, it\u2019s just almost unlimited!\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So I would just say\u2014if a guy said: \u201cOkay; I am going to try this. I\u2019ll just start in Matthew, Chapter 1, and start praying the Bible.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s the genealogies.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. Maybe you jump to Matthew 2 to get started. Would you do this?\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Maybe so; but, I can take Matthew 1 [Laughter] and say: \u201cLike some of these examples,\u201d or \u201cLord, may our ancestors\u2014I mean, our <em>heirs<\/em>\u2014may they be pointed toward Christ. I mean, for all of our descendants, for a thousand generations, may they come to You.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, that would work; won\u2019t it? We should try just to stump him\u2014throw some Scripture out\u2014\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Oh, yes. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and see if he can turn it into a prayer. [Laughter]\n\nHere\u2019s what I am thinking\u2014many of our listeners will be familiar with the acrostic that a lot of us have heard about prayer\u2014the A-C-T-S acrostic.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So pray with \u201cA\u201ddoration, then with \u201cC\u201donfession, and then with \u201cT\u201dhanksgiving, and then \u201cS\u201dupplication or make your requests known to God. You can take\u2014a verse, a passage, a paragraph\u2014and you can say, \u201cHow can I pray a prayer of adoration from this?\u201d\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cHow can I confess from this? How can I give thanks in this? And what can I ask for in this?\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; you know, Bob,I have taught the ACTS acrostic. I think it is good as far as it goes. But you know what? After a while, that can become the thing\u2014the same old thing.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Sure.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>A person can say: \u201cOkay; I am going to begin with that adoration. How will I adore the Lord today? Well, I guess I will adore Him the same way I did yesterday; because I don\u2019t have the time or the creative energy to think of new ways to adore the Lord.\u201d Good news! You don\u2019t have to come up with new ways to adore the Lord. He has given us 150 chapters of how He wants to be adored in the Book of Psalms. You can\u2019t do any better than that.\n\nA man who may feel as though his wife is his spiritual\u2014more spiritually-mature \/ whose wife knows the Bible better than he does\u2014you can\u2019t do any better than praying the words of Scripture like that. <em>Anyone<\/em> can do this. A six-year-old, who can read, can do this! <em>Anyone<\/em> can do this.\n\nA person who is led to Christ this morning\u2014he\u2019s never been in church a <em>day<\/em> in his life \/ he\u2019s never read one verse of the Bible before in his life\u2014he could do this.\n\n<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\nYou show him, with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm, and he goes, \u201cLord, shepherd me as I grow as a Christian.\u201d Well, he got it! He may not understand many of the rest of the verses\u2014but he\u2019s going to skip those\u2014and that\u2019s fine. He\u2019s going to pray about the things he does understand. Yes, he may not pray about them perfectly; but, you know what? It\u2019s going to be more biblically-sound than if he tried to pray without the Bible. When you pray the Bible, the Bible shapes your prayers. You are <em>edified<\/em> by the Word of God when you are praying \/ you are <em>taught<\/em> by the Word of God when you are praying; and that doesn\u2019t happen when you make up your own prayers.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I want you to speak to this for a moment\u2014as you talk about prayer, I got to tell you, I collide with my Self\u2014the capital \u201cS\u201d Self\u2014I am selfish. I tend to be self-sufficient. I have to deal with pride. Prayer, in its essence, believes that God is.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>It bends our wills before Almighty God to say, \u201cYou are my Maker, my Redeemer, my Master; and I yield to <em>You<\/em>.\u201d\n\n<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\nIt seems to me, at the heart of prayer, is finally coming to the end of yourself and admitting you are not in control; but there\u2019s a God who is.\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; when you pray the Bible, it\u2019s a more God-centered way of praying and weans you away from self. It doesn\u2019t eliminate the fact that you are still going to pray about your family, your future, your finances \/ the things you normally want to pray about\u2014but you do so more in a God-centered way\u2014and less in a way of: \u201cLord, here I am, again, to ask You to do for me what I want on this list here.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I got to go back to our 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. Bryan Loritts, a good friend of mine, spoke at our 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, back last summer. During his message on prayer, he asked the question: \u201cHow would your world be better?\u201d and then he said, \u201cYou know the problem is\u2014is a lot of our prayers are around our world.\u201d He said: \u201cThe real question is: \u2018How would <em>the<\/em> world be better, or be different, if God answered all your prayers over the past six\/twelve months?\u201d\n\n<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\nI was convicted about that, because I <em>do<\/em> think we get into a rut\u2014\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014of just praying for ourselves and our small sphere of just my world. There are some issues taking place\u2014in people\u2019s communities, in our country, in our world\u2014that demand that we take them before God and we ask Him: \u201cWould You go to work on behalf of what we see taking place, here, in America?\u2014the racial strife that seems to continue to rear its ugly head\u2014would You heal our country? Would you be merciful upon us, as a nation?\u201d\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; when you pray the Scripture, you pray more kingdom-centered prayers, more gospel-centered prayers, more God-exalting prayers and not just those that relate to your own little life. We are told in 1 John, that we must pray in accordance with His will or He will not hear us. Do you have any greater assurance that you are praying the will of God than when you are praying the Word of God?\n\n<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s a good point. The Scriptures <em>reveal<\/em> what God wants to do, both in us and through us.\n\n<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, this is a time of yearwhen people look at some of their spiritual disciplines and think, \u201cOkay; how do I want things in the new year to be different than they were in the previous year?\u201d It\u2019s a good opportunity for people to develop some new habits \/ some new patterns in their lives, spiritually. One of those new patterns may be this pattern of praying the Bible. You can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com; and you can order a copy of Don Whitney\u2019s book by that title, <em>Praying the Bible<\/em>. Our website is FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014just order from us online\u2014or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to request the book. Again, the toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329.\n\nNow, as we start a new year, we would like for some of you to consider a new habit, as well, as it relates to FamilyLife. Our program is heard on about 1100 stations and outlets, all across the country.\n\n<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\nIf you divided things up evenly, we have somewhere between four or five families in each of those communities who support <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> as Legacy Partners, monthly donors to this ministry. As you can imagine, it\u2019s our monthly donors who provide the financial stability \/ the backbone for this program and keep us functioning throughout the year.\n\nCan we ask you to join that team?\u2014become one of our Legacy Partners in the year, 2017, and be partners with us in what God is doing through this ministry by making a regular monthly contribution. You can find out more about becoming a Legacy Partner when you go to our website, FamilyLife.com. We would love to have you join the team.\n\n<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\nIf God has used <em>FamilyLife <\/em>Today in your life \/ if you are in alignment with the mission and vision of this ministry\u2014to help effectively develop godly marriages and families who change the world, one home at a time\u2014then become a Legacy Partner today. You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call and say, \u201cI\u2019d like to become a Legacy Partner. Our toll-free number is 1-800-FL-TODAY.\n\nTomorrow, we are going to talk more with Dr. Whitney about how we can practice a new discipline in the new year\u2014learning to pray the Bible each day. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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