AoPPW Devotions:  Deuteronomy 6:4-9 
The Shema Prayer

Worship God in prayer and devotions by praying and reciting 
and meditating and memorizing His word, binding it up in your heart. 

Christians should practice daily devotions. It is an essential part of the Godly life.

Shema (Hear) Prayer 
Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 

You shall love the LORD your God 
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 

You shall teach them diligently to your children, 
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, 
and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 

You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, 
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

The Shema prayer was so influential and important that Jesus used it as the beginning of His answer to the “greatest commandment” question in Mark 12:28–30:

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.