If you know what to pray, I still recommend the same.
Praying the Word is the best prayer and is the most powerful and effective we can pray. Period. Hands down.
Now, unless you at struggling with something, or if something specific has been placed on your heart, I recommend using a read the Bible in a year program and start there. In each chapter of the Bible, find three verses at least to focus on as you pray and prayer journal. Then, read them aloud if you can, one by one, as you pray it back to God. Then, listen and pay attention to the stirring of your thoughts and emotions--and what God is saying. Prayer journal about that.
Throughout your day and night, re-read those verses and pray them back to God so much that you memorize them.
Do this with your daily Bible reading. Turn it into prayer time as you read His Word.
Continue with your own personal Bible reading and praying the Word time as you read this blog and do what this blog says, do your Sunday school and small group lessons as well, along with any other Bible study. Do praying the Word with all of that.
And, add this. For this blog, we are going to memorize Romans 8 through prayer journaling and praying the Word of God.
For the next week, let's focus on praying the Word so much, the following four verses, that we end up memorizing them without even realizing it. Carry the verses with you everywhere you go. I guarantee you have several blank spots throughout your day you can use to read and pray the Word.
For instance, as you wait for your car to warm up for a second before you go. This will actually help your car last longer.
Or, what about while waiting on hold on the phone or while waiting for an appointment? While standing in a line, while brushing your teeth, while eating, while on break, before you get of out bed, before you go to sleep, if you cannot sleep in the middle of the night, while cooking, etc.
Here is the first round of verses to pray:
VERSES TO PRAY, PONDER, AND MEMORIZE
Romans 8:1-4 Living Bible (TLB)
8 So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 For the power of the life-giving Spirit—and this power is mine through Christ Jesus—has freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death. 3 We aren’t saved from sin’s grasp by knowing the commandments of God because we can’t and don’t keep them, but God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours—except that ours are sinful—and destroyed sin’s control over us by giving himself as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 So now we can obey God’s laws if we follow after the Holy Spirit and no longer obey the old evil nature within us.
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