I don’t just read the Word, study the Word, or memorize it. I pray it. And it’s a main way I’ve learned prayer and intercession.

One best way is by praying directly from the Psalms. They are an excellent place for this. If they were important enough to be preserved for our reading today, they are certainly good enough as our prayer guide!

Try to pray one each day, just read through it as if you were praying it yourself. Or just focus on a verse or two. Often something in the Psalm will stand out to you a bit more and you should linger on that in prayer a bit longer.

Many of these Psalms were from King David and reveal many things to us about his relationship with the Lord, and give us much insight to the Father, as well as teaching us today about how to pray.

One example is Psalm 28—

A Psalm of David.

Psalm 28:1-9 NKJV

What do you notice in Davids words? He uses the name of the LORD, asks for Him to hear his prayer; he asks the Lord for help, and to punish evildoers; he rejoices with an assurance to answered prayer; he praises the Lord and makes declarations of Him; he prays for his own people.

Included within these nine verses are adoration, faith, humility, supplication, intercession, gratitude—all elements of praying we cover. Notice how he will cry to the Lord, that is a pleading; the object of the prayer is the Lord my Rock, the aim is He would hear and be not silent; and his expressions of confidence in the Lord’s strength and saving refuge.

As you pray this passage for yourself and for others, you may well glean your own insights from it for your own praying.

There are 150 chapters, so at one a day it covers about 5 months. Then maybe pray the Proverbs and you have daily Scripture prayers for half a year.

Take a moment to pray a Psalm yourself, then pass this on to a prayer partner so they pray a Psalm. This way, we will all be praying together

Pray For The People Of God From The Word Of God

We will pray this week from the passage above: Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; feed them also, And bear them up forever.

Here is insight from Spurgeon:

This is a prayer for the church militant, written in short words, but full of weighty meaning. We must pray for the whole church, and not for ourselves alone.

Save thy people. Deliver them from their enemies, preserve them from their sins, help them under their troubles, rescue them from their temptations, and ward off from them every ill. There is a plea hidden in the expression, thy people: for it may be safely concluded that God's interest in the church, as his own portion, will lead him to guard it from destruction.

Bless thine inheritance. Grant positive blessings, peace, plenty, prosperity, happiness; make all thy dearly purchased and precious heritage to be comforted by thy Spirit. Revive, refresh, enlarge, and sanctify thy church.

Feed them also. Be a shepherd to thy flock, let their bodily and spiritual wants be plentifully supplied. By thy word, and ordinances, direct, rule, sustain, and satisfy those who are the sheep of thy hand.

And lift them up for ever. Carry them in thine arms on earth, and then lift them into thy bosom in heaven. Elevate their minds and thoughts, spiritualize their affections, make them heavenly, Christlike, and full of God.

O Lord, answer this our petition, for Jesus' sake. Amen