Lesson 12 – Exercising the Spirit by Calling and Pray-reading (Outline)

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Lesson 12 – Exercising the Spirit by Calling and Pray-reading

2 Timothy 1:6-7 For which cause I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sober mindedness.

Romans 8:5-6 For those who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

Ephesians 6:17 And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God.

  1. Exercising our human spirit
    1. Fan into flame the gift of God 1
    2. Setting our mind on the spirit 2
  2. Exercising the spirit by calling
    1. Calling on the name of the Lord 3
    2. Pray unceasingly 4
  3. Exercising the spirit by pray-reading 
    1. Pray-reading is to pray with the words of Scripture and over them, using the words of the Bible as our prayer to God 5
    2. To pray-read is to eat, drink, and breathe the Spirit and life in the Word of God 6, 7, 8

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Bible References:

  1. For which cause I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sober mindedness. (2 Timothy 1:6-7)
  2. For those who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. (Romans 8:5-6)
  3. And there is no one who calls upon Your name, who stirs himself up to lay hold of You. (Isaiah 64:7)
  4. Unceasingly pray. (1Thessalonians 5:17)
  5. And receive…the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit. (Ephesians 6:17-18a)
  6. Your words were found and I ate them, / And Your word became to me / The gladness and joy of my heart. (Jeremiah 15:16a)
  7. As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation. (1 Peter. 2:2)
  8. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)