Credit Where Credit is Due

Another encouraging passage which speaks of diving prayerfully into the words of God is -

Psalm 56:4. Nobody taught me this. I discovered that passage in my constant exploration of the Bible. That does not mean that no one else has ever noticed the passage.

"In God, whose word I praise, . . . "

In the realm of God, the word of God I praise.

An excellent way to praise God's word is to intersperse your praises to God with reading and praying with the Bible's words. We Christians know that God always accepts thanksgiving and praise. This verse says the psalmist would praise the word of God.

"In God, whose word I praise, In God do I trust, and I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?"

Praising God word will make a person courageous in God.
She or he will realize how puny and powerless man is to do harm.

" Lord God I praise You. Lord God in You I also praise Your word. Your word is faithful. Praise Your living word which strengthens me within."

Praying the words is a good way to keep God's words.
"Jehovah is my portion; I have promised to keep Your word." (Psa. 119:57)

Praying the words of the Bible is a good way to hide up the words in one's heart in order to save one from the temptation of sinning.
"In my heart have I treasured up Your word that I might not sin against You." (Psa. 119:11)

Am I saying do not treasure up the word in your heart merely with reading?
OF COURSE NOT.

I am saying we may also treasure up the word in our hearts by praying them, proclaiming them, speaking them, even singing God's word.

"Your statutes have become my songs of praise . . . " (Psa. 119:54a)

In the middle of the night we can pray / speak the word of God. We can be saved from nightmares and evil thoughts and a wild sinful imagination.

"At midnight I rise up to give thanks to You because of Your righteous ordinances." (Psa. 119:62)

"I have remembered Your name in the night, O Jehovah, and have kept Your law. " (v. 55)

At "every time" we may take up the word of God by means of all prayer.

" . . and receive . . . the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at EVERY TIME in spirit and watching unto this . . . " (See Eph. 6:17,18)

The spiritual man lives by every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.

@sonship said
You're idiotically nit-picky to think a Christian cannot refer to a passage to make application of some thing.

The last three or so posts written by me referred to biblical sources:

Psa. 56:4; 119:57; 119:4; 119:62,55; Eph. 6:17,18

as indicated in the posts.

In the OP of this thread I gave credit to where I was encouraged to pray with the words of the Bible.

Brother Witness Lee did a great service to modern day Christians by encouraging this practice on a large scale to the Christian public in general. In other words it is not just good for the spiritual giants of the past but useful to all Christians to learn to PRAY-READ the Bible.

Giving credit to where I learned this and now pass it on to others, I quote portions of the book Pray-reading the Word by said brother Witness Lee.

If you check the Internet though - thankfully, you'll see others who in one way or another have promoted the practice. And for that we give thanks.

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@sonship said
The last three or so posts written by me referred to biblical sources:

Psa. 56:4; 119:57; 119:4; 119:62,55; Eph. 6:17,18

as indicated in the posts.

I would not put too much confidence in software time stamps.
Sometimes I open up two simultaneous sessions on two different MS windows.
Who knows what the software would calculate?

I copied by hand those verses. And you are hunting for problems where there are none.

I am not for your silly sake going to rigorously record how long it took for me to write a post or posts. The SUBSTANCE of the posts is what is important.

Your silly technicalities that you imagine reveal some scandalous thing is your own juvenile excuse for not being able to point out error with actual Bible exposition.

@sonship said
I would not put too much confidence in software time stamps.
Sometimes I open up two simultaneous sessions on two different MS windows.
Who knows what the software would calculate?

I copied by hand those verses. And you are hunting for problems where there are none.

I am not for your silly sake going to rigorously record how long it took for me to write a po ...[text shortened]... hing is your own juvenile excuse for not being able to point out error with actual Bible exposition.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

How did I copy and have time to write in ellipsis? ie. " . . . "
If I copied how come "His" was misspelled "Hi . . ."

If I copied the search engine at www.ministrybooks.org should be able to locate
the exact paragraphs or sentences I copied.

Prove your detective work and show me ONE sentence you locate with the search engine that was cut and pasted.

Just ONE sentence in those three posts you should be able to locate with the powerful search engine there.
GO GET IT.

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

How did I copy and have time to write in ellipsis? ie. " . . . "
If I copied how come "His" was misspelled "Hi . . ."

If I copied the search engine at www.ministrybooks.org should be able to locate
the exact paragraphs or sentences I copied.

Prove your detective work and show me ONE sentence you locate with the search engine that was cu ...[text shortened]... those three posts you should be able to locate with the powerful search engine there.
GO GET IT.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke


Noted: Big Talk and no evidence of WHERE I cut and pasted from.
The tools are there to locate the sources.

I asked for ONE example.
You have none.

What is really going on here is that you are so afraid of God that you have to convince yourself anyone telling you of God must be a lying person out to deceive you.

You are succumbing to the temptation presented Eve -
"Yea, Did God say you shall not eat from every tree in the garden?"

Pray-reading aside. Someone IS out to deceive you. But it is not Jesus Christ.
He died for you.

And on this particular issue of timestamps and your Lieutenant Columbo style detective work, I think enough time has been spent by me on it.

If anyone is interested in trying to pray-read, and you do not know where you stand with believing in God - I would recommend that the 150 Psalms are a good place for you to pick a few to try.


Read and turn your heart towards God.
Break up the sentences into smaller chunks and say "Amen" to each one.

And say Amen with an expectation that you are willing for the Spirit of God to change your life a little. Seek His face. Seek God's presence.

"When You say, Seek My face, to You my heart says, our face, O Jehovah, will I seek." (Psa. 27:8)

Come with thanksgiving to God when pray-reading.
Come ready to confess your sins if they come to mind, when reading the Bible.
Come asking the Lord Jesus to cleanse your sins away in His redeeming blood.

Use the word of God and your heart like a Geiger counter detecting uranium.
When you are reading and some passage seems to leap off the page at you, LINGER there and pray over that passage.

Read until some portion seems to speak to your heart expressly. Like the Geiger counter begins to click - click - click when it detects uranium, so also when you feel something is speaking personally to you, linger there. Do not rush on. But turn that passage, that portion into PRAYER repeating it back to God.

You will learn how to mix the word of God with faith. This is very powerful.
And open your life up to the Lord Jesus and God.

@sonship said

And on this particular issue of timestamps and your Lieutenant Columbo style detective work, I think enough time has been spent by me on it.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

I did nothing wrong and broke no rules.
You've been reported for harassment.

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

I did nothing wrong and broke no rules.
You've been reported for harassment.