Since today is the national day of prayer, I thought it would be appropriate to get some advice on how to pray from Martin Luther, by using the acronym I.T.C.P.
- Instruction: what is God teaching us in the text?
- Thanksgiving: thank Him for the blessing given or discussed in the text
- Confession: confess what we have done wrong and ask forgiveness
- Prayer/Petition: ask for what God wants for us or others
This seems to have influences from the Catholic Lectio Divina (divine reading of Scripture), where one reads, meditates, prays, and then contemplates the text.
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