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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.  Praying scripture is not new – it dates back to the early Church, and even back to the Jews.  Scripture is sacred, significant.  “Let 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.” Colossians 3:16.  “But he answered and said, ‘It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4.  This refers to Deuteronomy 8:3.  “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.” Proverbs 30:5.  Next, we should notice that the early church prayed the Scriptures in Acts 4:24 and following. In fact, they explicitly quote Scriptures.  

Praying scripture focuses on two aspects: Participation and Full Communication.  A daily way to pray the scriptures is with the Liturgy of the Hours and another way is Lectio Divina.  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.