Three Implications for Our Prayers if God Already Knows What We Need
God already knows what we need before we ask. What does this imply for your prayers? It means our prayers should be honest, simple and immediate.
God already knows what we need before we ask. What does this imply for your prayers? It means our prayers should be honest, simple and immediate.
This article addresses a number of matters related to public worship, including the use of liturgical cliches by ministers in prayers, and collects.
This article considers ten things that the apostle Paul prayed for the church. These are then worth reflecting on by today's pastors, as possible ways to shape their prayers for believers?
How can our prayers reflect the awe, wonder, privilege, honour, and delight we have in meeting our Lord in prayer? This article provides a number of the different names of God found in Scripture, with a view to us enriching our ways of addressing God in prayer.
This article offers some suggestions as to how Christians should pray for their persecuted brethren. It first calls for understanding the nature of persecution and its reality in today's world, and then details what our prayers for the church should look like.
Does God answer prayer? There are five reasons explaining why God would respond to your prayers.
This article offers a number of resources in the form of prayers and litanies for Good Friday.
Instead of offering up prayers whose content is determined by what is happening in our lives, this article suggests that what should be happening instead is that our prayers inform our lives and alter our living. It suggests that there be three movements in our prayers: give things, make confession, and practice discernment.
To whom is Paul referring when he mentions "your prayers" in Philemon 22? The article argues that it is a reference to the prayer of the whole congregation.
What do your prayer requests look like? How do they match up with the focus of Scripture's prayers? This article explains how right praying and prayer requests are good avenues to pursue in order to care well for one another.
Can we love an enemy and still call for God's wrath against him? This article shows that imprecatory prayers, when motivated by the desire for God's justice and glory, may be prayed. However, the answer to those prayers rests with God.