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A Prayer about Praying and Personalizing Scripture

Hi Friends,

Today we will pray part of Psalm 139, personalizing it as we do. I hope you try this—it can really remind us of how God is speaking to us and how we are speaking to God through Scripture and prayer. Wherever it says [name], just pray your name or the name of the person you are praying for. (If you want to change the pronouns, you can do that too!)

O Lord, 

“You made all the delicate, inner parts of [name’s] body

and knit [name] together in my mother’s womb.

Thank you for making [name] so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

You watched [name] as I was being formed in utter seclusion,

as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

You saw [name] before I was born.

Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out

before a single day had passed.

How precious are your thoughts about [name], O God.

They cannot be numbered!

I can’t even count them;

they outnumber the grains of sand!

And when I wake up,

you are still with [name]!” (Psalm 139:13-18).

In Jesus’ creative name we pray. Amen.

If you like this exercise, try doing it with the entire Psalm 139. 

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