Okay, I changed my mind. My latest favorite book is "Everyday Prayers" by Pastor Scotty Smith from Nashville. He wrote a year's worth of prayers from his own devotional life as he went in search of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation and as he learned to preach the gospel to himself daily, a habit I also want to nurture. Here's just a sampling from March 18's entry: When I mute my heart to the insult of grace, I deny your cross. When I think, even for one moment, that my obedience merits anything, I deny your cross. When I put others under the microscope and measure of performance-based living, I deny your cross. When I wallow in self-contempt and shame, I deny your cross. When I'd rather do penance than repent, I deny your cross.
Is that not good? Do you need any more reason to run, not walk, to the New Hope library and check it out, then find you must own it and put in an Amazon order? Tomorrow?
I trust that my prayers will be more gospel-centered, more thorough, and more worshipful because of using these written prayers for a year. Might yours be too?
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