Living Psalmically
I’ve been changing things up.
Weeks ago I began to notice that my conversations with God had a “stuckness” to them. My prayer life had grown stale and stuck–always saying the same old things in the same old way. So, I decided to change my method.
For the past few weeks I’ve been praying through the Psalms.
This is how I do it:
Most mornings I use my Moleskine in praying through a psalm. Right now, the discipline of writing out my prayers is proving deeply helpful. I began with Psalm 1. Today I prayed through Psalm 20. I use black ink to write out the words of the psalm. As I write the words I pray them to God. When a certain stanza, verse, sentence, or word of the psalm especially grips me and triggers further prayer, I take my red pen and use it to write out/pour out further prayer to God in my own language. When I’m done, I move back to the black pen/psalm.
That’s it. That’s what I do.
It’s just a simple change of method in my prayer life, but this simple change of method is slowly changing how I live and relate to God. I’m living more psalmically than before.
Great idea. I think I may take you up on this idea. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Justin, thats a brilliant idea. I will definitely be taking this one up. Hope things are well with you, tay and the boys.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing it. There is something about writing prayers that focuses me. I’m going to try this!
Wonderful….!!! But it would be awesome if you could dare to actually blog those prayers in red and black…it would be a huge encouragement/insight into another brother’s walk with the LORD…! Not that you’d be adding to Scripture of course, but just to see someone else’s living prayers going up before the Throne…
James
I definitely want to try this out sometime! I’ve been making an effort to write out my prayers this week. The act of writing as I pray just helps me keep focused. However, I’m always looking for ways to change up my prayer life so I don’t become bored.
