{"id":3053,"date":"2016-07-19T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:17:58","slug":"prayer-allow-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2016\/07\/prayer-allow-bible-study.html","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to Allow the Bible to Study Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>\u201cDo everything he tells you.\u201d ~Moses in Deuteronomy 26:17<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>\u201cDo whatever he tells you.\u201d ~Mary, Mother of Jesus in John 2:5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mark has often said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t study the Bible. Let the Bible study you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the Lord has outlined in Scripture to do with our lives, we are blessed if we do them. God has given us a choice as to whether or not we follow them. It\u2019s completely up to us. But, there is a blessing guaranteed if we study what pleases Him and follow those principles. It\u2019s all about love, and there is no law in this universe that can quarrel with that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Father,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have often taken your Word as merely an excellent suggestion. Sometimes I\u2019ve studied it and gone away thinking about how someone I know needs to implement a principle I learned, and I\u2019ve neglected to let the Word study me! I ask your forgiveness, and with Your help, I\u2019m ready to do whatever you tell me to do without wavering, questioning, negotiating, or delaying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo everything he tells you.\u201d ~Moses in Deuteronomy 26:17 \u201cDo whatever he tells you.\u201d ~Mary, Mother of Jesus in John 2:5 Mark has often said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t study the Bible. Let the Bible study you.&#8221; Whatever the Lord has outlined in Scripture to do with our lives, we are blessed if we do them. 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