Prayer

Why do some prayers last for generations? This article explores 10 famous Christian prayers, including the Lord’s Prayer, Psalm 23, the Serenity Prayer, the Prayer of St. Francis, St. Patrick’s Breastplate, and John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer. Each one gives believers words for peace, surrender, trust, service, holiness, and drawing near to the God who hears.

These eight powerful prayers will help you honor freedom, confront injustice, and ask God for the healing we still desperately need.

Let us join together in thanking God for these noble men and blessing them as we draw near to such a special holiday.

A surprising new study found that just a few minutes of prayer brought greater relief from anxiety and pain than listening to music, offering fresh evidence of the power of connecting with God.

Prayer helps us look away from our own mistakes and trust God, who created marriage in the first place. Through prayer, we find the power to stay close when life tries to pull us apart.

God sees every sacrifice you make to care for your loved one, and he doesn’t expect you to sustain this role in your own limited strength. When you feel like you have nothing left to give, turning to God can give you the strength and hope you need.

Behind every “tough guy” dad is a man carrying more than he lets on. These 10 powerful prayers lift up the fathers who need God’s strength most right now.

Vacation Bible School can plant seeds that last a lifetime—but only if children truly hear and understand the gospel. Here are five specific ways we can pray for that to happen this summer.

We should pray for others to be healed, and we should also pray for the Lord to help us.

We’ve all experienced such a time when we could not find the right words to pray in our walk with God, who knows our every thought and is patient and forgiving. Here are seven ways to help get the prayer words flowing or encourage you to rest quietly in God's presence.

We are blessed to have a nation of brave men and women who have greatly sacrificed for our country. Our great nation celebrates Memorial Day in honor of their service. May these Memorial Day prayers encourage and inspire those who serve in the military as well as the family members who support them.

Because there are so many changes to adjust to during the summer, both positive and negative, there is much that we can bring before the Lord in prayer. Looking back over the previous academic year, and forward over the summer months, here are several suggested blessings to pray over students, graduates, parents, and teachers.

When the fears of moving far from home start to press in, these prayers will help you remember the unchanging truth that you're never alone.

If you’re unsure what to do with your fragmented relationships, here are six prayers to pray.

If you've been praying for any length of time, then you have probably experienced prayers that didn't turn out the way you asked. While it's important to remember that God is not a genie granting our every request, the faithful Christian may wonder if some prayers are left on hold, or does God answer every one (just not in the way we expect)?