I attended this 3-day retreat last weekend focused entirely on deepening my personal commitment to God, family, church and other relationships. I learnt so much during these 3 days and wish to blog some of the key learning points that I personally found very useful.
In this post I want to share this simple method of reflecting on scripture during personal prayer times:
- Choose a book of the Bible for daily reading - I have chosen to start with the Gospel of John.
- Start reading a passage from the beginning of the selected book, preferably a full chapter.
- Read it slowly a couple of times and then silently ask the following questions:
- What does this passage tell me about the character of God?
- Does this chapter describe any sin that I should give up?
- What promise of God does this passage reveal that I can claim?
- What commandment of God does this passage instruct that I should obey?
- What lesson does this passage teach me to learn?
- Maintain a daily prayer journal/log in which the scripture reference and the answers to each of the above questions can be written down.
- Spend at least 20 minutes daily for this spiritual exercise.
- Keep the prayer journal close at hand and whenever possible, spend a few minutes to read the answers during the rest of the day. If your prayer time is in the evening, you can do this on the following day
It’s an amazing method of obtaining fresh and deep insights into the Word of God. I hope this way of praying the scriptures is useful to you too.
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