Wrap Yourself in Scripture #4 ~ Tips for Hearing God Every Day

November 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
WRAP Yourself Scripture #4 ~ Tips for Hearing God Every Day

Tips for WRAP to help you hear God with a message just for you.

Tips for Hearing God Every Day

Have you ever thought, “Can I really hear from God every day?” The answer is, “Yes, you can!” But you have to pause. WRAP can help you hear Jesus Christ with a personal message meant just for you. With WRAP, you’ll discover that God’s Word is truly alive and that He wants to speak to you. But you have to pause and make room for Him. Being faithful in reading and praying the Word of God will transform your life forever! Join us today and discover the tips you need to hear from God every day, pausing for a message specifically for you. (Scroll Down for Podcast.)

Practical Council in the Holy Spirit

Fr. John Horn, in the foreword of our book, WRAP Yourself in Scripture, says,  “WRAP provides a way of receiving practical counsel in the Holy Spirit and a new, intimate relationship with Jesus and the Father. This method of prayer will awaken your inner desire to become more and more ‘filled with all the fullness of God’” (Ephesians 3: 19). Today, we will cover these tips for hearing God every day, pausing, and being ‘filled with all the fullness of God.”

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How Much Time Does WRAP Take?

  • You can follow this method for as little as 10 minutes or much longer.
  • For example, you could take your Bible and journal with you to WRAP in Adoration.

Where should I WRAP?

  • Try to pause for a few minutes every day to practice WRAP.
  • To pause means to intentionally slow down and step away from the chaos of daily life.
  • Spiritually, it’s more than just taking a break; it means you take time to be with God in prayer-a time free of distractions, to pray and connect to His peaceful presence.
  • Go to a place where you can be alone to pray and listen for God’s voice; you may simply shut the door.

What Supplies Do I need for WRAP?

  • You will need an empty notebook to use as your journal, a pen or pencil and of course, your Bible.
  • Keep a zippered notebook or tote bag that holds these supplies so you will have them handy

How do I Select Verses for WRAP?

  • Choose a section from a daily or Sunday Mass reading.
  • You could choose a Psalm.
  • Choose a passage that’s about 5 to 10 verses.

How do I Begin?

  • Close your eyes and picture in your mind that the Lord is sitting with you, and you can sense his loving, sustaining presence.
  • Offer a simple prayer of thanksgiving and invite the Holy Spirit to guide and speak to you.

Personal Application

  • Grab a pen and a small, inexpensive notebook and call it your WRAP Journal, plus your Bible.
  • Turn to Psalm 27  in your Bible and WRAP with it.

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Wrap Yourself in Scripture #3 ~ Holy, Heavenly Meditation

November 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
WRAP Yourself Scripture #3 ~ Holy, Heavenly Meditation

WRAP with the “Four M’s of Christian Mediation” will guide you in Prayer and Reflection

Meditation & WRAP

Have you ever wondered if meditation could really be part of prayer? It can! Meditation on Scripture can bring you into a two-way conversation with God. Join us today to learn how to approach the Word of God with Holy Heavenly Meditation and prayer, guided by WRAP. (Scroll Down for Podcast.)

Distinctions Among Prayerful Meditation and Other Forms

There is a big distinction between prayerful Biblical meditation and other forms of meditation. Eastern or New Age meditations have an inward focus on the deepest self. Biblical meditation, on the other hand, brings us into a closer encounter with God and His presence around Scripture. We will cover the “Four M’s of Christian Meditation” and these points:

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Straightforward and Uncomplicated WRAP

  • Christian meditation “engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire” (CCC 2708).
  • You speak to God from your thoughts, feelings, and desires as you contemplate the message in the verse.
  • What does it mean for the way you act, live, and treat others?

The Bible Encourages Meditation

  • Joshua 1: 8: “You shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful
  • Psalm 1: 1-2: Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord.
  • Psalm 119: 97 Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. 
  • Luke 2: 10: Mary treasured all these words [the words from God] and pondered them in her heart.

The Old Testament Hebrew Words translated “Meditation”

  • HÂGÂH, translated “meditate,” means “to murmur or mutter or to repeat over and over,” “to ponder,” and “to deeply imagine” God’s word.
  • SIYACH means to meditate upon, study, ponder, to talk, to speak aloud, and even to sing.

The 4 M’s of Meditation

  • MULL OVER means positively pondering and intensely considering the meaning of the verse.
  • MUTTER means repeating the verse and words aloud and to yourself in order to chew them.
  • MENTALLY IMAGINE means to put yourself in a scene as you read it.
  • MEMORIZE comes easily after mulling over, muttering, and mentally picturing the verse or verses.

Personal Application

  • Grab a pen and a small, inexpensive notebook and call it your WRAP Journal, plus your Bible.
  • Turn to Psalm 1: 1-6 in your Bible and WRAP with it.

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Wrap Yourself in Scripture #2 ~ The Bible: “A Pharmacy Open to All Souls”

November 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Wrap Yourself in Scripture #2 ~ The Bible: “A Pharmacy Open to All Souls”

The Bible is: “A pharmacy open to all souls….with remedies just right for your cases.”

A Pharmacy

Did you know the Bible offers a “pharmacy open to all souls” with remedies for your worries and troubles? Saint Basil the Great tells us this and more.  Join us today to learn how WRAP – the acronym for Lectio Divina- can help you discover the medicine just right for your body, soul, and spirit. (Scroll Down to Listen.)

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Four Stages of Prayer

  • The four stages of prayer described by Rev. Mark Thibodeaux (The Armchair Mystic) include: . Talking at God, Talking to God, Listening to God speak to your heart –through reading & reflecting on Scripture daily, Resting in God’s presence, enjoying His company.
  • Take the Self-report Prayer Survey in WRAP Yourself in Scripture, 4th Edition, by Karen & Lawrence Dwyer, or download the bookmark from WRAPYourselfinJoy.com.

St. Basil the Great

  • “The Holy Spirit composed the Scriptures so that in them, as in a pharmacy open to all souls, we might each of us be able to find the medicine suited to our own particular illness…and in the Books of Psalms we can find… remedies just right for their cases.” (Spidlik, T., & Drake, P. (1993). Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: A Patristic Breviary, Liturgical Press.)
  • He reminds us that the Lord, encountered through the passages of Scripture, heals our cases.
  • Cases can refer to problems, worries, anxieties, rejection, and much more.

Personal Application

  • Grab a pen and a small, inexpensive notebook and call it your WRAP Journal, plus your Bible.
  • Select a Scripture passage WRAP with Psalm 103: 1-13 again.
  • Go to a quiet place to be alone for 10 minutes.
  • Pray, ask, and open your heart for God. Begin your prayer of thanksgiving. Acknowledge that the Lord is with you. Thank Jesus, that He wants to speak to your heart today through Scripture. Pray, Come, Holy Spirit, and enlighten my mind to Your truth.”
  • Spread out the W R A P in your journal over at least one page.
  • Download the template bookmark from the website WRAPyourselfinJOY.com and practice WRAP.

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