P.R.A.Y
PAUSE
REJOICE & REFLECT
ASK
YIELD
Personal Worship
This week alongside the covenant that God made with Abraham, we will be looking at the other covenants we find in Scripture beginning today in the Garden of Eden.
Together we will pray (P.R.A.Y.) each day – ‘P’: Pausing to be still as we come into the presence of the Lord. ‘R’: Rejoicing as we remember who our God is and what He has done, and Reflecting on His word. ‘A’: Asking God to help us and others. And ‘Y’: yielding to His will in accordance with His word.
As I come before you to pray, I still my thoughts and quiet my mind. I seek to make you the center of my focus.
Prayer of Approach
Lord, I long to know you deeper. Meet me in this desire. Reveal yourself to me that I may know you deeply. I want to experience all that you are willing to offer me. Speak to me through your Word and your Spirit now.
I choose to rejoice, with all God’s people, in the powerful promise that God gives us in Deuteronomy 7:9…
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 7:9
As you read the passages below, ask the Lord to cause a word or phrase to stand out to you.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:15-17
As I reread the passage, I reflect on the questions, “How is my life touched by this word?” and “How does this passage connect with my life?”
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:15-17
When God created man he entered into a relationship with him. Part of that was a covenant of life that he entered into with him. Life came with obedience and death came with disobedience. Adam ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thus sin entered into the world. Adam broke his part of the covenant agreement.
Lord, I ask that you reveal yourself to me as a relational God. You are the God who created me to be in a relationship with you and show me what that means.
Lord, begin by reviving my own heart this week. Meet with me and show me where I am in sin or holding a part of my life back from you. Fill me with your Spirit and give me abundant life in you. I am desperate for a move of your Spirit this week.
As I read the passage for the final time, I listen for how the Lord is inviting me to respond to him. Where in my life do I need to yield in obedience to what he has for me?
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:15-17
Yielding Prayer
Lord, I ask that you give me a heart of obedience. Let my life yield to all that you have called me to. Let me not obey out of wrought devotion, but let me see the beauty in getting to walk with you in this life.
Yielding Promise
And now, as I move into the day ahead, the Lord who loves me reminds me in 2 Corinthians 5…
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Closing Prayer
Lord, enable me, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to love you today with all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength; and to serve you today, by loving and caring for others as I do my own self; and, to exalt you today, by telling the people in my world about the abundant and eternal life found only through faith in Jesus.
*The P.R.A.Y. acronym has been adapted from the Lectio 365 app.