Praying the Psalms Morning, Noon, and Night Every Two Months

By Ron Bender © 2011

Many people have said they’d like to pray the Psalms in the way that I have been doing. I pray through all 150 Psalms in the Psalter every two months in sequence, starting with odd number months (January, March, etc.). This way I pray each Psalm at least six times a year (sometimes in addition to the Psalms I’m scheduled to pray I use other Psalms that I or someone else needs). Praying the same Psalms over and over helps me to take Scripture deeper into my heart, praying it for myself and others. All the foundational types of prayer are in the Psalms. But all prayers are Putting It In The Fathers Hands.

Each day — morning, noon, and night — I let the Father lead me in meditation, prayer, and journaling. As I do I pray the Psalms with Jesus the Messiah who fulfilled the Psalms’ prophecies, righteousness, and human experience. Then throughout the day I use little abiding prayers inspired by Psalms to help me practice God’s presence.

Wherever possible I’ve organized this schedule to fit my understanding of the ancient natural rhythms. Some Psalms refer to the morning, full light of day, or evening and I find it helpful to pray those Psalms at those times. I pray Psalms of submission or devotion in the morning and Psalms of reflection or confession in the evening. Psalms of thanksgiving and praise work well any time of day.

On average I pray two or three Psalms each day, but some days I only pray one because it is a special Psalm, is very long, or refers to more than one part of the day.

The Psalms schedule in the table below has three groupings of columns (including the day of the month, time of day, and Psalm to pray) to cover up to 62 days (some months have 31 days). “Day” refers to the date of the month. “Time” refers to morning, noon, or night. “Psalm” refers to the number of the Psalm to pray. If there are less than 30 days in the month then on the last day of the month you would need to pray extra Psalms to stay on track.

Everyday I carry with me My Psalms Prayer Book. This is my personal customization of the book of Psalms. I bought a Psalms Bible off of the New International Version website, took off the binding, three-hole punched each page, and used three rings to hold the pages together. I have added many pages with my journal entires inspired by the Psalms. Also I have added many pictures (from the Internet or ones that I took) and abiding prayers inspired by the Psalms. (See “Psalms Prayers” on Soul Shepherding.org for some of my meditations and abiding prayers that are in My Psalms Prayer Book that I carry with me.)

May it be true of you and I that like the Psalmist we can say before the Lord with humble confidence: “I am a person of prayer… I am devoted to the Lord… I live uprightly.”

Day	Time	Psalm	Day	Time	Psalm	Day	Time	Psalm
1	am/noon/pm	1	24	pm/am	51	12	am/noon	101
2	am/noon	2		noon	52		pm	102
	pm	3		pm	53	13	am/noon/pm	103
	pm	4		pm	54	14	pm/am	104
3	am/noon	5	25	pm/am/noon	55		noon	105
	pm	6		pm	56		pm	106
	pm	7	26	pm/am/noon	57	15	am/noon/pm	107
	pm	8		pm	58	16	am/noon	108
4	am	9	27	pm	59		am	109
	noon	10		am	60	17	pm/am	110
	pm	11		am/noon	61		noon	111
5	pm/am	12		pm	62		pm	112
	noon/pm	13	28	am/noon/pm	63	18	pm/am	113
	pm	14		pm	64		am	114
	pm	15	29	am/noon/pm	65		noon	115
6	am/noon/pm	16		pm	66		pm	116
	pm	17	30	am	67	19	am	117
7	am/noon/pm	18		noon	68		am/noon/pm	118
8	am/noon/pm	19		pm	69	20-21	7 x per day	119
9	am	20		pm	70	22	am	120
	noon	21	30/31	am	71		am/noon/pm	121
	pm	22		noon/pm	72	23	am	122
10	am/noon/pm	23	1	am/noon/pm	73		am/noon	123
11	am	24	2	pm/am	74		noon	124
	noon	25		noon	75		noon	125
	pm	26		noon	76		noon/pm	126
12	am/noon/pm	27		pm	77	24	pm/am	127
13	am	28	3	am/noon/pm	78		noon	128
	noon	29		pm	79		noon	129
14	pm/am	30	4	am	80		pm	130
	am/noon/pm	31		noon	81	25	am/noon	131
	pm	32		pm	82		pm	132
15	pm/am	33		pm	83		pm	133
	noon	34	5	am/noon/pm	84	26	pm/am	134
	pm	35		pm	85		am	135
16	am/noon/pm	36	6	am/noon	86		noon/pm	136
17	am/noon	37		pm	87		pm	137
	pm	38		pm	88	27	am/noon	138
	pm	39		pm	89	28	pm/am	139
18	am/noon	40	7	am	90		noon/pm	140
	pm	41		noon/pm	91		pm	141
19	am/noon/pm	42	8	am/noon/pm	92		pm	142
	pm	43	9	am/noon	93	29	pm/am	143
	pm	44		pm	94		noon/pm	144
20	am/noon/pm	45	10	am/noon/pm	95	30	am	145
21	am/noon/pm	46	11	am	96		noon	146
22	am	47		am	97		pm	147
	noon	48		am	98	30/31	am/noon/pm	148
	pm	49		am	99		pm	149
23	am/noon/pm	50		am/noon/pm	100		pm	150

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