How to Pray Scripture
One of the best ways to pray is to pray scripture. Below is a section of scripture and what a prayer would look like using that scripture. Below that are some additional scriptures that would be used to pray but they do not have examples for you to use. Try these scriptures on your own and develop a prayer that would use the passage at hand and begin to learn how to do this on your own.
Praying Scripture
Psalm 119:9-16 - How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. [10] With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! [11] I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. [12] Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! [13] With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. [14] In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. [15] I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. [16] I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
Lord help me to guard my life and keep my way pure according to Your word.
Help me to seek you with my whole heart and let me not wander from Your commandments.
Help me to store Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Blessed are you Lord, teach me your statutes.
I will declare all your rules from your mouth.
Lead me to delight in your testimony.
Lord help me to meditate on Your precepts and fix my eyes on Your ways.
Father I delight in your statutes, help me not to forget Your word.
Psalm 119:18 - Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Lord, open my eyes that I may see the wondrous things in your law.
Psalm 119:105 - Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Lord let Your word be a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
In Jesus Name - Amen
Examples of Other Scriptures
Psalm 119:28 - My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!
Psalm 119:112 - I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.
Psalm 119:114 - You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
Luke 9:18-20 - Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” [19] And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” [20] Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
Luke 9:23-26 - And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. [24] For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. [25] For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? [26] For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Luke 9:35 - And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!”
Luke 9:46-48 - An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. [47] But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side [48] and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”
Luke 9:57-58 - As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” [58] And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Luke 10:2-3 - And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. [3] Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
Luke 10:36-37 - Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” [37] He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”
Luke 10:38-42 - Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. [39] And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. [40] But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” [41] But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, [42] but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”