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Hey, Bible readers! In addition to our regular eight-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 will 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, you are so patient and kind with the wayward and rebellious, and we praise you for that. We also praise you that you can be trusted not to leave sin unpunished. Your heart for justice is a comfort to us, and so is your heart for mercy. Your ways are always righteous, and we praise you for that too. Have mercy on me, a sinner. We repent of our sins and turn to you, and we ask you to make our hearts clean. Idols have always and will always plague us.
Like Jehu, we're half-hearted. We follow some of your ways and ignore others. Our idols cloud our vision and steal our affection for you. And we repent. Would you clear away the idols in our lives? Increase our affection for you so that our interest in things that are opposed to you gets pushed out of our hearts. May you increase as we and our idols decrease.
We surrender our lives to you, Lord. Every moment of our day, each decision we make, we yield our will and way to your perfect will and way. We love you too. Amen.
Amen.
As you're signing up to be a ReCaptain, just look for the Bible Kneecap tier, or you'll 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 into your account and adjust your membership accordingly.