If you want your prayer life to be rich and deep, satisfying and strong, try praying the way Jesus himself would pray to God.
Don’t think now about praying for that need or desire for decades. Just focus on today. If God has given you a burden or a desire for another day, and you really believe that burden or desire might be from him, be willing to ask him one more time — one more prayer for relief, for reconciliation, for provision, for a breakthrough, for salvation.
The blessings of praying the Psalms are many. For one, the Psalms are Spirit-inspired words, given us by God to speak about God and to God. Even the best of our Christian hymn-writers or songwriters are not inspired by the Spirit in this definitive and authoritative way. Every word of every psalm is given by God. “The interpretive key to the Psalms is how the New Testament uses them.” Also ...
Praying the Bible keeps us from focusing on our immediate private concerns to the exclusion of God’s larger purposes.
How to Keep Praying 00:00 Download How to Keep Praying Four Lessons from the Master Scott Hubbard is a teacher and the managing editor for Desiring God, a pastor at All Peoples Church, and a graduate of Bethlehem College and Seminary. He and his wife, Bethany, live with their three sons in Minneapolis. Read more about Scott.