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Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner welcomes Ken Hunter for this episode of Praying the Scriptures as the series on Prayer-Reaching Out to God continues.\xa0 Praying scripture is not new \u2013 it dates back to the early Church, and even back to the Jews.\xa0 Scripture is sacred, significant.\xa0 \u201cLet the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.\u201d Colossians 3:16.\xa0 \u201cBut he answered and said, \u2018It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u2019\u201d Matthew 4:4.\xa0 This refers to Deuteronomy 8:3.\xa0 \u201cEvery word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.\u201d Proverbs 30:5.\xa0 Next, we should notice that the early church prayed the Scriptures in Acts 4:24 and following. In fact, they explicitly quote Scriptures. \xa0

Praying scripture focuses on two aspects: Participation and Full Communication.\xa0 A daily way to pray the scriptures is with the Liturgy of the Hours and another way is Lectio Divina.\xa0 Ken gives instruction and samples of these and shares how, as a discerning member of the diocesan deaconate class, he uses the scripture to pray.