Praying Through Psalms

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that you...

Praying through the Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that...

PSALM 51 IS CLEARLY a psalm for the penitent, but it is also a cry for help.  Unlike other cries for help in the Psalms, the writer does not tell us what the troubles are.  The trouble rests with those repenting and their own sin, making this a powerful prayer of confession for any who need to be washed from iniquity and cleansed from sin. My heart cries out to God, "According to your ab...

THE FOURTH SET OF BEADS SAYS, "Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make hast to help me." I have discovered that when the Lord delivers me from fear, or I have repented of a sin and feel much lighter, there is a sense of having "a new song put in my mouth by the Lord."  Indeed, I walk with a new lightness that  results in a hymn of praise in my heart. It is good to recall the plac...

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that you...

THIS HYMN is full of faith statements.  The first set of beads says, "He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord." Sometimes it is difficult to see that the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord, so we need to take a closer look to spy out his faithfulness.      Spend some time this week meditating on the truth th...

IT IS OFTEN DIFFICULT for us to believe that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.  Yet, this is exactly what the Lord would have us know about our creation. James Mays says that Psalm 139 is a "doctrinal classic because it portrays human existence in all its dimensions in terms of God's knowledge, presence, and power.  It  reflects an understanding of the human as enclosed in divi...

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that you...

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that you...

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that you...

Psalm 24 BEGINS with the reminder that "the earth is the Lord's;" he created it, he sustains it, he saves it, and he is the earth's owner.  He is also the Creator of all who live on the earth.  We depend on the Lord of heaven and earth because we live in his world. The gates and the "everlasting doors" the writer of this psalm is referring to are both the entrance to the temple on Mt. Zi...

Praying through the Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people. Episode 1 offers more instruction as to how to use prayer beads and why. Physical copies of the book can...

BOTH PSALM 19 and PSALM 119 instruct us that the Word of the Lord is the best place to learn the sacred way of living. James L. Mays says of this psalm, "The world (gives witness) to God.  The creation manifests the glory of its creator.  The psalm offers us...a vision of poetic imaginative personification.  It is based on the notion, not uncommon in biblical thinking, that every cr...

Psalm 18 is one of my favorite Psalms. I hope you will read the whole psalm and savor the hyperbole. Consider the second set of beads: "He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.  He rescued me from my strong enemy."  Your strong enemy could be a life event, emotions that are disproportionate to the circumstances in your life, or even a spiritual power of darkness....

This Hymn is full of faith statements.  The first set of beads says, "He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord."   Sometimes it is difficult to see that the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord, so we need to take a closer look to spy out his faithfulness.  Spend some time this week meditating on the truth that God is st...

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people. Episode 1 offers more instruction as to how to use prayer beads and why. Physical copies of the book can be...

I have decided to release Psalm 23 today.  Find your prayer beads and let's pray together.  Or simply settle into the presence of the Lord and meditate on this ancient prayer.  The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people. Physical copies of the book can be purchased here .

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people. Physical copies of the book can be purchased here .

Praying through the Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that...

Praying through the Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people.  More on how to use prayer beads is in the first episode of this podcast. My prayer for you is that...

Praying through Psalms is a Guide to Contemplative Prayer using Anglican Prayer Beads.  You may use prayer beads or simply listen and pray without prayer beads.  We recommend engaging your body through touch, using prayer beads as you embrace these ancient prayers of God's people. Physical copies of the book can be purchased here . Praying through  Psalms is read by the author, Cind...