Praying the Psalms 2
4. RAMP up your prayers I recently read an interesting comment by George Muller. He said that the first thing upon awakening, he would go to prayer, but sometimes it had taken him fifteen minutes or even half an hour to get "in the Spirit". Then he decided to go to the Word of God first, and to read until he was led to pray. This solved his problem. After meditating on scripture first he was able to experience a more meaningful prayer time. George Muller once said he could think of 50,000 answers to prayer - so a pretty good role model. Go through the Psalms in sequence. Each prayer time, take the next Psalm. R - Read it through once. A - Analyse the poetry - check About Poetry for help. Put it in historical context - what was happening when the Psalm was written - what was going on in the Psalmists life to bring out these prayers and petitions? Read it through again in light of what you have learned. M - Meditate ...