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  • JOE: Hi everyone, thank you all for joining us again. In this segment we'll be covering

  • more from Chapter 3 in Volume 3 of the "Basic Elements of the Christian Life."

  • The title of this chapter is "Pray-reading the Word." Tom, in our last segment we talked about how

  • pray-reading the Word and being nourished by the Word is something for new believers

  • and young believers, but is this something only for new believers or is it something that we can all do?

  • TOM: Well, certainly new believers need to

  • learn how to take the Word of God as nourishment but I believe every Christian, every believer

  • should eat the Lord this way every day of their whole Christian life. I would like to

  • testify and I could let you know that I got on to this, I learned how to pray-read over 40

  • years ago when I was still a high-schooler. In fact, I taught some of my friends, Christians

  • friends how to pray-read and we would pray-read together at school, and after school, and

  • on the bus and different places. But I also can testify that nearly every day of 40 years,

  • pray-reading has been a part of my life; to be able to take the word of God by praying

  • and exercising my spirit with the Word has been a tremendous benefit and a great nourishment

  • to me for many, many years. I believe everybody should pray-read.

  • JOE: Okay, so this is something definitely that everyone can do no matter how old we

  • are, how long we've been saved, we can receive nourishment from the Word. So but anybody who

  • is learning how to do this for the first time, can you share with us how to pray-read the Word, what this looks like?

  • TOM: Sure, you know Ephesians chapter 6 verses 17 and 18,

  • speaking about the spiritual warfare and the weapons, it has a verse that says,

  • in verse 17, "And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which

  • Spirit is the Word of God." Then verse 18 continues, "By means of all prayer and petition."

  • The way for us to be nourished with the Word, the way for us to receive the Word of God

  • as food is to pray, is to take the Word of God by means of prayer. And it says by means of all prayer.

  • That means all kinds of prayer. It can be loud prayers, quiet prayers, short prayers,

  • long prayers, it can be any kind of prayer. And what I was helped to do was to

  • take the words of the Bible and turn them into a personal utterance to God.

  • In other words, take what is written there and convert it into a personal prayer. I found out that

  • this entire Bible can be a prayer book by praying the words, words by word and adding

  • in my personal supplication, my personal praise, or my personal requests in the midst.

  • I would like to give an example. One of the verses that is so enjoyable on this particular topic

  • is Matthew 4:4, "But he answered and said, it is written, 'Man shall not live on bread

  • alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God." And you could

  • take this word and you could pray, "Man shall not live on bread alone. Oh Lord, thank You.

  • Oh, I cannot live just on bread. Oh Lord, I need more than bread; man shall not live on bread alone.

  • Oh Lord, feed me this morning. Feed me today. But on every word. Oh Lord,

  • thank You for your Word. Every word, oh, every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.

  • Lord, how I thank You for Your Word. I come this morning to take You as the Word as the bread

  • that I can live on, the word that proceeds out through the mouth of God." To take the

  • Word of God like this in a prayerful way with a praying spirit is the way to be nourished.

  • Actually, there are many examples of devout believers in the previous centuries that practice this.

  • They would pray with the Word and this became a solid part of their life.

  • I believe every Christian should pray with the Word.

  • JOE: It's been very helpful to see that in order to be nourished by the Word we can come to the Bible and to pray over what we're reading,

  • and so this is what we call pray-reading. And the way to do this is just to turn the

  • words of the Bible into our prayer to the Lord. Tom, thank you for joining us today

  • and thank you all for joining us for these segments on "Pray-reading the Word."

JOE: Hi everyone, thank you all for joining us again. In this segment we'll be covering

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