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title: Prayers from Scripture | Week 6
description: Explore the beauty of love in Scripture through Song of Songs. Discover how divine love shapes our relationships and fulfills our deepest needs.
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# [Prayers from Scripture | Week 6](https://theformed.life/blog/prayers-from-scripture-week-6)

 Written by [Christ Community KC](https://theformed.life/blog/author/christ-community-kc) | Tuesday, June 23, 2026

## Read | Song of Songs 2:8–3:5

> *Woman*  
> *Listen! My love is approaching.*  
> *Look! Here he comes,*  
> *leaping over the mountains,*  
> *bounding over the hills.*  
> *My love is like a gazelle*  
> *or a young stag.*  
> *See, he is standing behind our wall,*  
> *gazing through the windows,*  
> *peering through the lattice.*  
> *My love calls to me:*
> 
> *Man*  
> *Arise, my darling.*  
> *Come away, my beautiful one.*  
> *For now the winter is past;*  
> *the rain has ended and gone away.*  
> *The blossoms appear in the countryside.*  
> *The time of singing has come,*  
> *and the turtledove’s cooing is heard in our land.*  
> *The fig tree ripens its figs;*  
> *the blossoming vines give off their fragrance.*  
> *Arise, my darling.*  
> *Come away, my beautiful one.*
> 
> *My dove, in the clefts of the rock,*  
> *in the crevices of the cliff,*  
> *let me see your face,*  
> *let me hear your voice;*  
> *for your voice is sweet,*  
> *and your face is lovely.*
> 
> *Woman*  
> *Catch the foxes for us—*  
> *the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—*  
> *for our vineyards are in bloom.*
> 
> *Woman*  
> *My love is mine and I am his;*  
> *he feeds among the lilies.*  
> *Until the day breaks*  
> *and the shadows flee,*  
> *turn around, my love, and be like a gazelle*  
> *or a young stag on the divided mountains.*
> 
> *In my bed at night*  
> *I sought the one I love;*  
> *I sought him, but did not find him.*  
> *I will arise now and go about the city,*  
> *through the streets and the plazas.*  
> *I will seek the one I love.*  
> *I sought him, but did not find him.*  
> *The guards who go about the city found me.*  
> *I asked them, “Have you seen the one I love?”*  
> *I had just passed them*  
> *when I found the one I love.*  
> *I held on to him and would not let him go*  
> *until I brought him to my mother’s house—*  
> *to the chamber of the one who conceived me.*  
> *Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you*  
> *by the gazelles and the wild does of the field,*  
> *do not stir up or awaken love*  
> *until the appropriate time.*

[Click here to listen to the Scripture in ESV. ](https://www.esv.org/audio-player/Song+of+Songs+2%3A8%E2%80%933%3A5)

## Focus

[Watch this video from BibleProject ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KC7xE4fgOw)that gives an overview of this book of the Bible. What is one thing you learned from the video?

## Pray

Pray out loud using this prewritten prayer based on today’s Scripture. Use it as a model for using Scripture in your own prayers.

Based on Song of Songs 2:8–3:5 by Rachel Nesse, Pastoral Resident – Leawood Campus

*My love calls to me*

*God, may this ancient love poetry remind me that you are the God in whom all true love originates. *  
*Your perfect love stands at the center of the universe. *  
*And all earthly love, whether romantic, familial, or the love of a friend, is meant to direct our hearts to your final, greater love. *  
*Arise, my darling. *  
*Come away, my beautiful one.*

*As I read of the delight between lovers, I am reminded that you created us to experience delight. *  
*You created us to delight in you and delight in one another. *  
*I am created to encounter your beauty and love in the faces of those who bear your image. *  
*May I remember today that my innate desire to know and be known originates from your majestic design which mirrors the divine love which you experience within the triune Godhead. *

*My love is mine and I am his*

*God, may I remember that the longing of my soul for love, belonging, security, and satisfaction begins and ends in you. *  
*You made me to need you. And in you alone do I find my deepest needs fulfilled. *  
*My cup overflows because I am yours. *  
*I am loved by you. I find belonging in you. I am secure in you. And I am satisfied in you. *

*I delight in your love, Father. I delight in your love, Jesus. I delight in your love, Spirit. *  
*Amen.*

## Going Deeper

If you are also following the BibleProject’s [One Story That Leads to Jesus reading plan](https://d1bsmz3sdihplr.cloudfront.net/media/reading-plans/BibleProject_Reading_Plan_2025.pdf), complete today’s reading.

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