We will take turns praying for a vast assortment of subjects, which include, but it is not limited to, ourselves, our marriage, our children, or our extended families, our churches, and the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world.ĭarien may or may not realize this when listening to me pray every night, but I actually use the skeletal framework of the Lord’s Prayer ( Matthew 6:9-13) on which to base all of my petitions: adoration and exaltation, consecration and surrender, supplication, and requests, intercession, and protection and a call to spiritual warfare. Prayer Time – My wife and I will conclude our routine by praying together. Bible Verse Memorization – Many times we’ll grab a verse or two of Scripture that floored us and make it our “Bible Verse of the Week.” We’ll make an effort to recite to each other every night.ĥ. It may take a few days to learn how to smoothly pray through passages, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll find it to be a cool, fresh approach to applying the Word of God to your life.Ĥ. Try this out yourself for several nights. Some books of the Bible aren’t really conducive to this approach of prayer application (doing this in most of Numbers or Leviticus will fail, for instance), yet Psalms and Paul’s epistles work quite beautifully. Or David’s exuberant praises to the Lord will make us reflect on the majesty of God and thank Him for all he’s done in our lives. For instance, David’s lamenting about his enemies in various Psalms can be the catalyst for us to cry out to God in a similar manner with passionate pleas about our own struggles. I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to do this, as it compels us to run Scripture through the filter of our own personal experiences. The following evening, we’ll pick up where we left off and read the next passage, and then pray through it. We’ll recite the verses verbatim out loud in that particular passage chunk, and then immediately go into prayer to God by paraphrasing what we had just read in our own words. What is “praying the Bible,” you might ask? Well, it is selecting a book of Scripture, and breaking it into manageable “chunks” of 6, 8, or 10 verses. “Praying the Bible” – This is one of the most unique concepts that we’ve integrated into our prayer and study time. The duration of YouVersion’s featured devo series can range from 4, 5, or 7 days all the way up to 21 and 30 days and beyond, and we’ve both covered dozens of these devotionals on numerous themes and subjects.ģ. We’re both crazy about the app, and use it to both individually and jointly dig into devotional plans. Daily Devotionals – Although reading devotionals have been around for centuries, my wife and I both think that the YouVersion Bible app has really elevated this method of Bible study and reflection to amazing new heights. Time devoted to this can be 20 to 30 minutes in length (or even longer, if the discussion warrants it).Ģ. The majority of the time, Darien and I take turns reading out of the source material and then discourse about the topics and themes and how we apply them to our lives. What precisely we cover during this block of our evening can vary greatly, but we will typically cover Christian books, Bible studies, or individual chapters of the Bible themselves.Įxamples of reading topics have been marriage and theology books separate, in-depth studies on Romans, Acts, and Revelation and days where we simply jump into a book of the Bible (such as Proverbs or the Gospel of Matthew) and just read out loud a chapter a day. Reading Discussion – First, we will go over mutually agreed-upon reading material. Here is our normal structure for our God time habit – how we as a married couple pray and read the Bible together: Our Nightly Routineġ. I’ve decided to “peel back the layers” of my own personal life and show you how my wife Darien and I will set aside a dedicated portion of our evenings (of both weekdays and weekend days) to pursue God together as any Christian married couple should. What does this entail, you might ask? It can include a certain amount of Bible reading, discussion and reflection, and praying together. Doing so will strengthen and deepen your faith, and draw you closer to each other as you draw nearer to God. One of the most imperative things you can do with your spouse (this could also apply to a long-term boyfriend/girlfriend or fiancée/fiancé) is spending regular, quality “God time” with him or her.
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