Spiritual Practices: Keyword Listing
Keyword listing is a method of observational Bible study. It doesn’t require any special skills, tools, or training. You can read more about the process of keyword listing here. You can choose any word or short phrase to study using keyword listing. For this passage, we suggest the following keyword(s) to start your study.
Starting Points
Keyword listing is a method of observational Bible study. It doesn’t require any special skills, tools, or training. You can read more about the process of keyword listing here. You can choose any word or short phrase to study using keyword listing. For this passage, we suggest the following keyword(s) to start your study.
Starting Points
- Spirit - Discover how the Holy Spirit helps us pray
Spiritual Practice: Breath Prayer
Overview
In the first few verses of this passage Paul talks about waiting in hope. He compares it to the pains of childbirth, waiting eagerly for a promise, but going through the pain of that promise and hoping for it come to an end. He says that we are waiting in hope for a promise that we have not yet seen come to pass. Maybe you feel this way about something in your life. You are anxiously waiting in hope. Maybe you are getting impatient wonder where God is and why the promise seems to be delayed. Maybe you are losing faith and beginning to wonder if God has forgotten you. Sometimes we need to cling to hope and remind ourselves to patiently wait for God's promise to come to pass in God's perfect time. That is what this breath prayer is about.
Prayer
Abba Father, help me wait in hope
Overview
In the first few verses of this passage Paul talks about waiting in hope. He compares it to the pains of childbirth, waiting eagerly for a promise, but going through the pain of that promise and hoping for it come to an end. He says that we are waiting in hope for a promise that we have not yet seen come to pass. Maybe you feel this way about something in your life. You are anxiously waiting in hope. Maybe you are getting impatient wonder where God is and why the promise seems to be delayed. Maybe you are losing faith and beginning to wonder if God has forgotten you. Sometimes we need to cling to hope and remind ourselves to patiently wait for God's promise to come to pass in God's perfect time. That is what this breath prayer is about.
Prayer
Abba Father, help me wait in hope