Pray through a verse, one word at a time. Let God guide you in the verse you choose. He might highlight something during your daily reading time or through a sermon or study. Or perhaps you’ll choose a very familiar verse. Keep it limited to one verse or perhaps two short verses. Then take one word to focus upon each day. It’s not a word study; it’s a reflection of God based on a word a day. He will reveal a richness in the details of His Word in fresh ways.

Don’t skip over a single word. Even what seems to be the smallest words are meaningful and significance. For example, the word “and” might seem to be a simple connector, but it’s so much more. God provides and reveals through the “and.” He is not limited. He encompasses and includes beyond our comprehension and perspective. He is grand.

Open your eyes, ears, and heart to how He speaks through the specific word throughout your day. If your word is “gives,” trust God to show you the many ways, expected and unexpected, He gives to you as well as the ways He pours through you to give Himself to others in your life and daily routines and relationships. If your word is “Lord,” let Him challenge you to move beyond who you know God to be and add challenges to how you incompletely yield and live out what you say you believe about Him.

When possible, write your thoughts and experiences throughout the day. Your writings don’t have to be organized, grammatically-correct sentences. You can write simple words or phrases. You can draw simple sketches. Writing something down solidifies what you’re experiencing, and as you continue to write, journal, or sketch, you’ll begin to see patterns on which you can see and claim the truth of who God is.

Praying through a verse isn’t an approach you want to constantly use, especially at the cost of other reading and studying. Let Him reveal Himself to you in the details as He’s revealing Himself in the greatness of who He is.