![]() ![]() Just a word of explanation on each of these. The Word of God inspires prayer, it informs prayer and it incarnates prayer. Let me sum up the connection between prayer and the Word in three ways. So I begin Prayer Week with Psalm 1 because the Bible begins its prayer book with Psalm 1.īut why does it? And why should we? The reason is that in the Christian life -in the life of God's people - prayer and the Word are connected in such a way that if you disconnect them, both die. Millions of Christians go to the Psalms to find words for the cry of their hearts in the worst of times and the best of times. ![]() In fact, the Psalter is the prayer book of the Bible. And what are the psalms? Many of them are prayers. Well, where is this psalm? It is the beginning of the book of Psalms. So why begin Prayer Week with this psalm and this focus on delighting in the law of God? Delighting in the law of God is the central issue. Verse 2: "But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night." The person who delights in God's law so much that he meditates on it day and night is delivered from the ways of the wicked and sinners and scoffers, and is made fruitful and durable and prosperous. ![]() If this is Prayer Week, why do we begin with a message on Psalm 1 that doesn't mention prayer, and focus our attention on the Word of God and not prayer? The central point of this psalm is made in Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.Ħ For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,Ģ But his delight is in the law of the LORD,Īnd in His law he meditates day and night.ģ He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,īut they are like chaff which the wind drives away.ĥ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, ![]()
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