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Prayers
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1 Samuel 3:10
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We thank You for the reading of Your word, O Lord. Now give us ears to hear
that we may say with the boy prophet Samuel, "Speak, for Your servants hear."
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Psalm 119:105,130
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for the entrance of Your
words gives light; for the entrance of your words gives understanding to
the simple.
Open up Your word to us today, O Lord, through the illuminating work of Your
Holy Spirit, that Your inspired, infallible word, Your revealed will, may
become for us a lamp for our feet and a light to our path.
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Psalm 119:144
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O Lord, the righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; give us
understanding, and we shall live.
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Proverbs 8:10-11
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O Lord, we ask not for silver but for Your instruction. We ask not for choice
gold but for the knowledge found in Your inspired word. For Your wisdom,
O Lord, is better than rubies. All else that we might desire,
O Lord, cannot be compared with the wisdom, knowledge and instruction which
You give to us through Your inspired word and outpoured Spirit. Bless
Your word today, O Lord, to our spiritual enrichment.
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Jeremiah 15:16
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O Lord, we have found Your words in the pages of Scripture, and we now
prepare to feast on them. May Your word be to us, O Lord, the joy and rejoicing
our our hearts, for we are called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.
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Jeremiah 23:29
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O Lord, Your Word is like a fire and like a hammer that breaks the rock in
pieces. Use Your Word today, O Lord, as a hammer to break our heart of stone
and as a fire to burn away our sinful dross.
Through Your Word and Spirit, create in us a clean heart, O God, and
prepare us for Your service.
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Matthew 4:4
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, for we do not live by
bread alone but by every word which proceeds from Your mouth.
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Matthew 13:44; Psalm 119:162
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O Lord, we rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure. Now, O
Lord, give us eyes to see that Jesus is our great treasure, like unto treasure
hidden in a field which was so valuable that when a man found it, he went
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for his joy over that hidden treasure, sold all that he had and bought that
field where it was hidden. Help us to understand the riches that are ours
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Luke 24:45
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O Lord, in the evening of that very Sunday upon which Your rose from the
dead, You appeared to Your disciples who had assembled in Jerusalem, and You
opened their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
Even so, O Lord, be with us who have assembled here on this Lord's Day.
Through the mystical work of Your outpoured Spirit, be with us and open our
understanding that we too might comprehend the Scriptures.
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Luke 24:45
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Now open our understanding
that we might comprehend what we have read.
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Acts 16:14
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O Lord, we have heard the words of our Savior as recorded in the apostolic
tradition preserved for us in the pages of the New Testament.
Now open our hearts that we may heed the things spoken by our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.
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2 Corinthains 10:4-6; Ephesians 6:17
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word, which is the sword of Your
Spirit. Use Your word today, O Lord, to bring our every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ. Conquer us, O Lord, through Your Word
and Spirit.
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1 Thessalonians 2:13
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O God, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Enable us now to receive
and welcome Your word not as the word of men but as it is in truth,
the word of God, which effectively works in those who believe.
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2 Timothy 3:7,15
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O Lord, may we not be as those who are ever learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth. Instead enable us to know the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make us wise for salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
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2 Timothy 3:16-17
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Father, we thank You for the reading of Your Word, which You have given to
us through the miracle of inspiration. We ask that through the blessing of
Christ and the working of Your Holy Spirit
that Your Word might be profitable to us for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness, that we might be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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Hebrews 4:12
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O Lord, Your word is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Now, O Lord, conquer our hearts with Your word, and cut away as with a
surgeon's knife any idolatrous attitudes and rebellious thoughts,
that we may worship You today with a pure and loyal heart.
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Hebrews 5:11-14
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O Lord, we thank You for the reading of Your word. Give us ears to hear that
we may not be dull of hearing. May we drink the milk of Your word that
we may as babes learn the first principles of Your oracles.
May we also partake of the solid food of Your word that we may as mature
believers become skilled in the word of righteousness and learn to discern
good and evil by applying Your word to our lives.
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1 Peter 2:2-3
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Heavenly Father, we thank You for the reading of Your Word. We have tasted
that You are gracious, and we desire, as newborn babes, the pure milk of
Your word, that we may grow thereby.
By Your inspired Word and outpoured Spirit, nourish us, O Lord. Strengthen
our faith and cause us to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ;
in whose name we pray. Amen.
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