So I attempted the lying on the floor face down prayer today during my quiet time. My posture did help me to quickly acknowledge my position with God and I tried to envision the cross in front of me. However, it didn't exactly go as I had hoped. I have vertigo right now pretty bad and the combination of the room spinning and trying not to look at what was on the floor plus it is never a good idea for me to lay down in the middle of the day or anytime for that matter because this mama will fall asleep in 2 seconds. caused me to lose a bit of focus. I did remain awake and prayerful for 10 minutes so I consider it somewhat a success. It's probably not a good idea for me in the future to do this if I want to give God my best:)
I am going to get back to the exercises I left off on in Living By the Book Ch.15 Read Purposefully. The continued challenge before me is to read the purpose statement passages given from Scripture and determine the author's purpose in my own words and then investigate how he communicates that to the audience (types of structure, repetition, etc.).
#5 Malachi 4:4-6
I think the purpose of the book is basically a warning to the people of Israel to keep Moses' (God's) laws or they will be punished.
After skimming the book, the author used (there are more I'm sure, but this is my initial go at it)
-question and answer
-rhetorical questions
-instruction
-cause and effect
-historical structure
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