Hey Bible readers.

In addition to our regular 8-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 and 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 you 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.

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