The Psalms for Prayer

by T.M. Moore

Book Overview

The Psalms are a rich treasury of praises, confessions, laments, and celebrations that can become strong foundations for prayer. This book explains six simple methods for praying the Psalms: verbatim, paraphrase, prayer over a psalm, responsive, guided, or a combination. It offers suggestions for praying each Psalm.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801064139
• ISBN13: 9780801064135
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The Psalms for Prayer

Excellent resource. Intro is wonderful place to start learning to pray the Psalms. Classification of Psalms and how to pray them is good. Only reason I gave it only 4 stars is I'd prefer a different translation than the NKJV. But even for me it wasn't much of a draw back. I bought it for some of my kids too.

PRAY the PRAYERS that JESUS PRAYED

Jesus Christ was certainly a devout Jew along with his mother Mary and Father Joseph. As such, they prayed the PSALMS at all Jewish Holidays and other prayer times practiced by devout Jews. When Jesus prayed the Psalms as a Man on Earth, He was praying prayers that many of us have never even considered praying today. If you want to pray the PRAYERS that Jesus Christ himself prayed, get this book. In the back of the book there is an appendix that provides schedules for praying the Psalms. You can put yourself on a weekly, biweekly (every two weeks), or monthly schedule and PRAY ALL of them. If you're reading this review you know that the PSALMS come from the OLD TESTAMENT of the Bible. T.M. Moore's book presents all of those PSALMS with a brief INTRODUCTORY NOTE and an ADDITIONAL NEW TESTAMENT reference that echoes the Word of God via the New Testament from the Old Testament Psalmist. When praying the PSALMS in this book, it is helpful to have the NEW Testament Cross Reference included for further meditation and adding an additional dimension to my/your prayer of the Psalms.

An Ancient practice for the modern Christian

Praying the Psalms has been part of the Christian faith from ancient times and found its most ardent supporters among monastics such as St. Benedict.99% percent of the book is made of the Psalms in their entirety. Mr. Moore provides some truly useful tips for incorporating and making the most of the Psalms in your daily prayer life and even provides suggested schedules for praying through the Psalms from beginning to end.One of the most helpful features off this book is the annotations for each of the Psalms that help direct you as you pray the Psalms - this alone is worth the price of the book.The only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 stars is that I would have liked to have seen such a volume available in either hardback or even leather bound.I am truly happy to have run across this work and will be making heavy use of this as a practical reference for prayer. I will be recommending this to everyone!