Prayer Resources
Helping you develop a more intimate prayer life
Too Busy Not To Pray:
Slowing Down to be with God
Author: Bill Hybels
Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There’s church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems impossible to find. Bill Hybels made the discovery that prayer doesn’t happen on the run. He decided he was too busy not to pray. The ideas in this practical book can help us learn to slow down to be with God.
Deepening Your Conversation with God:
Learning to Love to Pray
Author: Ben Patterson Ben will encourage and inspire you to turn your prayers from a spiritual discipline to a much-anticipated delight. In this want-to-pray guide, he describes prayer as the work of the Christian, explaining why God covets your prayers and how it gets God’s work done on earth.
The Life That Prays: Reflections on Prayer as Strategy
Author: Minette Drumwright
Learn how your prayer life can be enhanced. Personal stories, suggestions, strategies, and prayerwalking tips are included in this comprehensive, step-by-step guide.
31 Days of Praise
Author: Ruth Myers
Christians who long to experience God in a fresh, deep way will treasure this powerful, personal praise guide, rereleased with an updated cover. Every day for just one month, a Scripture-based devotion cultivates the "heart habit" of praise and worship. Readers will be gently inspired to appreciate and adore the Lord in all things -- yes, even in the midst of pain, disappointment, and heartache. A deeper intimacy with God -- and a greater love for Him -- is the sure result.
31 Days of Prayer
Author: Warren & Ruth Myers
It takes but a few weeks to form a habit. Readers of the rerelease of 31 Days of Prayer can form a prayer habit that lasts a lifetime with this beautiful and practical devotional. Authors Ruth and Warren Myers show readers how to grow in prayer, even if the amount of time set aside seems small at first. The book guides believers through prayer for thirty-one days, allowing for personalized prayer that reflects individual circumstances and areas for spiritual growth. 31 Days of Prayer leads readers step by step into praying about what is close to their hearts and God's.
PRAYING FOR THE LOST Use the acronym HEART to help you remember how to pray for lost people:
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For their Heart to be receptive to the gospel |
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For their spiritual Eyes and Ears to be opened |
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For their Attitude toward sin to match God’s attitude |
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For God to Release them to believe |
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After Trusting in Christ to live a Transforming life |
WEEKLY PRAYER MODEL
May God lead you into a life-changing, ever-growing relationship with Jesus Christ as you seek Him in prayer.
Use the ACTS acrostic to guide your prayer time. This acrostic contains the major elements given by Christ in the model prayer (Matthew 6:89-13; Luke 11:1-4).
Adoration – spend time praising the Lord and adoring Him for who He is (Matt.6:9). Use scripture to praise Him (Psalm 103, 145, 150). Praise the Lord by praying scripture or hymns back to Him (Psalm 84).
Confession – confession should be a part of our continual walk with Christ (Matt. 6:9-13). Spend time asking Christ to search your heart for areas that displease Him (Psalm 139:23-24). Allow God to cleanse your heart of any unconfessed sin (Psalm 51:10-13). Be sure to spend time confession and repenting of (turning away from) specific sins (1 John 1:9). Accept His forgiveness and cleansing (Jeremiah 31:34).
Thanksgiving – giving thanks for all things should be a part of our everyday lives as God’s people (Phil. 4:6-7). This includes thanking God for specific things such as blessings, people, open doors, guidance, etc. Also give thanks for His salvation and the privilege to serve such a wonderful Savior. Thank Him for His goodness, loving-kindness, and faithfulness (Psalm 100:4-6).
Supplication – we are called as believers to intercessory prayer (Luke 18:1, Col. 4:2, 1 Tim. 2:1-4). Thus, we are to come before God on behalf of others (Heb. 10:19-25, Rev. 1:4-6). Spend time praying for specific people, events, states, countries, missionaries, etc. In addition, spend time praying for personal needs. Make prayer lists for your time of supplication. Be sure to include a place for answers to be recorded. Recorded answers become items for praise and thanksgiving.
There is so much to pray for! Consider a plan for praying for certain areas every day.
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Pray for...
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Your home church, pastor, and church staff. The lost who are hearing the Gospel message around the world on this day |
| Monday |
National denominational leaders, your boss(es), your co-workers, collegues and associates. |
| Tuesday |
Your spouse, your children, home-based missionaries, state denominational leaders, our educational system. |
| Wednesday |
Your parents, your extended family, people in service jobs (police, fire, emt...) |
| Thursday |
Your friends, national political leaders, local political leaders |
| Friday |
Foreign missionaries, world political leaders, children around the world |
| Saturday |
World peace, revival among God's people, the spreading of the gospel message of salvation through Jesus Christ. |