“In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.” Daniel 9:2-3

Lord God, I pray, take the words which your Spirit inspired and the apostles and prophets wrote down, and plant these words deep into my heart. Keep them from becoming an academic exercise or a professional pursuit. Take your Words and make them the source of my life, my salvation, my strength and my hope. And then, through those Words, wing my prayers up to the throne of heaven as I pray through the Scriptures and bring my thanks, my praise, my petitions, my requests and my intercession before your most holy throne. Make your Word, O Spirit, a living, breathing part of my life. Amen.

My encouragement is this: One way or another take the Scriptures on which you meditate and turn them into prayers. In this way, we pray through the Scriptures.