Children Of God Shining As Luminaries Pray-Reading
CHILDREN OF GOD SHINING AS LUMINARIES
PRAY-READING
THE WORD
In Philippians 2:14 through 16 there are many important words and phrases: murmurings, rea sonings, blameless and guileless, children of God, without blemish, crooked and perverted gener ation, shine as lights, holding forth the word of life. We need to pray-read these words again and again. For example, if we pray with the words murmurings and reasonings in 2:14, we shall breathe in the breath of God. Furthermore, we shall come to hate our murmurings and reason ings and aspire to be saved from them. By pray- reading the Word, we respond to it. Then in our experience the Word is not a book in dead let ters; instead, it is God's breath, even His breath ing.
Sometimes when we pray-read the Word, we may pray a whole verse at one time. However, often it is better to pray-read word by word or phrase by phrase. No one can eat a whole chicken