Pray before reading the bible

Over the years, my bible reading has been immensely helped by John Piper’s acrostic prayer I.O.U.S. It’s a prayer that really gets at what we need God to do for us and our hearts when w…

A free printable prayer to pray before you read your bible to help increase your understanding of what you read!

Some get up early in the morning to read, meditate, and pray. Others do so during their lunch break. You might find that this can be done early in the evening or before you go to bed. Some enjoy reading the Bible in the morning and again before retiring. Thus they “read it . . . day and night,” or regularly. (Josh. 1:8) The important thing is to buy out time from less important things for daily meditation on God’s Word.​—Eph. 5:15, 16.

Sometimes it’s hard to understand the Bible, which can be very frustrating. Here is a prayer based off of scripture to pray to before you begin reading.

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Prayer before reading the Bible

Some get up early in the morning to read, meditate, and pray. Others do so during their lunch break. You might find that this can be done early in the evening or before you go to bed. Some enjoy reading the Bible in the morning and again before retiring. Thus they “read it . . . day and night,” or regularly. (Josh. 1:8) The important thing is to buy out time from less important things for daily meditation on God’s Word.​—Eph. 5:15, 16.