Day 276 The Bible KNEEcap Preview

Tara-Leigh Cobble (0:05)

Hey Bible Readers, in addition to our regular 8-minute daily podcast of The Bible Recap, we also have a second daily podcast that follows our daily Bible reading. In The Bible Recap, we'll be recapping what we just read in Scripture, and this podcast will be our prayer of response to God about what we just read. Since it's a podcast devoted to prayer, we're calling it The Bible KNEEcap, like kneeling in prayer. Each day's episode we'll post immediately after The Bible Recap, so you can listen to them back to back. So our suggested order will be read, recap, respond. Lots of listeners tell us The Bible KNEEcap prayers help them build out their understanding of what we've just read even more. In this podcast, we use a prayer method called PRAY. It's an acronym that stands for Praise, Repent, Ask, Yield. Each day we'll be changing up what we're praising God for. That's the P in the PRAY acronym. Our praise will usually connect to the God Shot from that day's episode, since that's where we saw God's character or attributes on display. After that, we'll point you to some ways to R, Repent, A, Ask, and Y, Yield. But those will obviously look different for each person from day to day, depending on what's happening in your heart and your life. Before we begin, one thing I want to point out is that following along with pre-written prayer is not meaningless or vain. Even Jesus himself gave us a prescribed prayer to pray when he gave his disciples the Lord's prayer. Old Testament Jews and the believers of the early church glorified God and took comfort in praying the prayers of the Psalms written by David and many others. Those prayers not only help us connect with God, but they help teach us his character as well.

As you listen to my prayer each day, echo it back to God in your own heart and feel free to expound on it in your own words. We want this to serve not only as a teaching tool, but as a catalyst for your own extended conversations with God after I say Amen.

So without further ado, here's today's episode of our daily prayer podcast, The Bible KNEEcap, which corresponds to today's reading from The Bible Recap.

Father, we praise you for your protective nature. You manage every detail when it comes to taking care of your kids and providing for us according to your plan. You even transcend the physical realm of provision. You send dreams and angels and angels in dreams and all kinds of things. Thank you for the way you're always guarding and guiding us. But we don't always listen, God. We're not always interested in your plan. Sometimes like King Herod, we're fearful of your plan. We're given to manipulation and lies in order to get our own way. We try to build our own future and we give way to control and paranoia. And we repent. Have mercy on me, a sinner. We repent of our sins and turn to you and we ask you to make our hearts clean.

Would you grant us the kind of faith you granted the wise men? The kind of faith that knows your word well enough to be able to follow your promptings, even through long journeys and unknown destinations.

Grant us the faith to worship Jesus and honor him above everything else.

We surrender our lives to you, Lord. All our movements, all our worship, we yield our will and way to your perfect will and way.

We love you too. Amen.

Today, we're giving all of you a free preview of our second daily podcast that's available to RECAPtains at the Bible KNEEcap tier or higher. This free episode is just to help you see what the daily episodes are like, in case you want to add this one-to-two-minute prayer podcast to your daily routine. If you want to join our crew of supporters, visit thebiblerecap.com/recaptains or click the RECAPtains link in the show notes. As you're signing up to be a RECAPtain, just look for the Bible KNEEcap tier or your membership will also automatically get this podcast when you sign up at any higher tier. Once you sign up, you'll get a personal private link to the podcast along with instructions on how to add that link to your podcatcher app. If you're already a RECAPtain but are below the Bible KNEEcap tier, all you have to do is log in to your account and adjust your membership accordingly.