Praying Scripture

(This was originally posted to my previous blog on 02/15/2007.)

Today I read Iyob (Job) 33-36, and within that reading there is a passage I used to pray:

Job 33:14 For El does speak once, or twice - though one does not notice it -
Job 33:15 in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on a bed,
Job 33:16 then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Job 33:17 to turn man from his deed, and conceal pride from man.
Job 33:18 He keeps back his being from the Pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.

A few years ago, I started praying these Scriptures for someone who had wandered far from YHWH by inserting him by name into the passage. After a couple of weeks of praying this passage nightly without his knowledge, he told me that during the night he was feeling "a ghost" walking up from the foot of the bed to his head. It took my breath away to hear that, and I determined to keep praying these Scriptures. About a year and a half ago, he was restored to the faith, and then I showed him my prayer journal and what I had been praying during the time when he was experiencing that "ghost".