Bible Readers

This came in as a comment from Austin Gardner. I thought you that dont read the comment sections should see this.

I actually learned to pray through the Psalms and the Scriptures from reading the life of George Mueller. I often wondered how those men could pray 4 and 5 hours a day without getting bored or going to sleep. Then one day in my reading I saw how Mueller said that he would read the Scriptures and turn them into a prayer.

Later in another book I saw where someone kept a prayer journal and of course I had heard of keeping the prayer list and putting down when God answered my prayers but the idea of the journal was to write down your prayers so that you could review them later and so you would have the discipline of getting alone with God and really thinking through what you were saying. I started reading my Bible and I started taking notes. I filled up journals and then threw them away.

Then while a missionary in Peru I learned the lesson of accountability. If I wanted to teach the young men how to be faithful in reading their Bibles I needed to have a tool. Word of Life had the Quiet Hour and did a form of this. Over the years it evolved with me until we would share each day what we had been reading. It went well.

Then I turned my into prayers. Then I started encouraging people long distance which was no longer difficult due to email. I now keep my prayer journal on a password protected and non visible blog. I then send my devotions to several different people each day.

It is a good way to be accountable and it is a good way to encouarage each other.

I hope you can get involved in doing just that.

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