Reading Challenge: Praying the Bible
It’s about time for another blog post. As summer arrives and work increases (not to mention the NBA playoffs), I haven’t had as much time to keep up my reading. But I’m excited to share with you the review of Praying the Bible by Donald S. Whitney . This book changed the way I pray. Mr. Whitney says that if we are bored with praying, the problem isn’t us, it’s our method (page 12). We tend to pray “the same old things about the same old things”, and that’s the way my prayer life had been before I read this book. If we are true, born again and Spirit-filled saints and we find prayer boring—the problem is how we’re going about praying to the God of the universe. We need a better method. If you’re like me, you most likely pray the same old phrases…over and over and over again. Mr. Whitney shows us a better way in his book. So what is the solution? Whitney says, “ W hen you pray, pray a passage of Scripture, particularly a psalm” (p. 27) . It’s so simple, but...