Many of us read Proverbs for our daily devotions. It is the definitive source for wisdom. Broken down into 31 chapters, it is simple to take one chapter a day for a month and glean the practical daily actions from it and become a wise person.
PRAYING THE PROVERBS: PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES (click here to hear a sample) takes the application of proverbs one step farther: it makes each chapter a prayer that you can breathe to God each day. This will fulfill James 1:5 – But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. Praying the Proverbs takes writings of wisdom literature from the Bible, and turns them into personal prayers that edify believers with its wise sayings on character, integrity, and love.
This is a very helpful book. Dr. Towns translated the Scriptures into modern-day language and put each chapter into a modern English prayer. Alongside your King James translation, this is a powerful and extremely helpful book for personal devotions and prayer. Interspersed among the Proverbs, Dr. Towns has written several “character sketches” to aid in an understanding of many of the different types of characters found in Proverbs– the slacker, the wicked, the king, the fool, etc.
Excellent study and worship companion.
Dr. Elmer Towns is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and scholarly works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar lecturer, and dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed over 20 resource packets for leadership education. He is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty’s existence. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.
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