Prayer features biblical, practical help for a deeper prayer life. This category focuses on how to pray, what Scripture teaches about prayer, and how prayer shapes discipleship and spiritual growth. You’ll find devotionals, teaching, and guidance for personal prayer, intercessory prayer, and praying with your church, small group, or family.
July 3, 2025
How do we bring to bear the full power of prayer to deal with the unseen forces of darkness on the mission field? Greg Pruett offers seven tools for spiritual warfare.
March 17, 2025
Jesus teaches us how to pray, not as a burdensome duty but as a loving response to the Creator who invites us to call him “Father.”
March 10, 2025
If we live for a while in Temptation Desert, the Lord’s goal is to build our character, loyalty, and ability to serve. He is pulling for us to win, not setting us up to fail.
March 4, 2025
Do we seek God’s forgiveness—both for sins we have willfully committed and for hidden faults that are hard for us to see? And do we extend forgiveness to others, whether they intentionally did something wrong or they sinned without even realizing it?
March 2, 2025
One of the great dangers of the modern church is that we have come to rely on our thinking, strength, wit, and skill and believe we can strategize, market, and promote our way out of the place in which we and our churches find ourselves.
February 24, 2025
Jesus said to pray, “Give us today our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11), and every part of that sentence has something to teach us.
February 17, 2025
Discipleship requires surrender—ceasing our battle of the wills and voluntarily submitting ourselves to the Lord.
February 10, 2025
Using simple but profound language, Jesus teaches us to address God as a wise, powerful, loving Father.
February 3, 2025
For 20 centuries, followers of Jesus have cherished the Lord’s Prayer. This short but powerful prayer can help us jumpstart our conversations with God.
January 27, 2025
How can we make prayer a more consistent part of our daily lives?
December 11, 2024
Today’s technology offers innovative ways to restore New Testament prayer patterns in Christian marriages.
September 1, 2024
Sadly, prayer is often little more than a formality many people practice out of tradition. But when we look closely at Jesus’ model prayer in Luke 11:1-4, we discover that prayer is much more than form; it is a dynamic and transformative fire.
February 29, 2024
"When we pray we do not always get precisely what we ask for," Max Ward Randall wrote in 1954. "What are some of the reasons?" . . .
March 3, 2022
On March 1, I joined IDES’s “31 Days of Prayer and Fasting.” Each day I receive an email from IDES with prayer points to cover for Ukraine that day. I encourage you to join me and many others.
February 25, 2022
I met Oksana Kuklinowsky when I was preaching in several churches in Ukraine. Her husband, Valeri, was minister of the church in Zdolbunov, in eastern Ukraine. . . . Several years later, Valeri was killed in a tragic accident, leaving Oksana to raise their five children. . . . I tell you all this because I need to put a face, or faces, on Christian families in Ukraine. . . .
November 1, 2021
Could This Key Focus of ICOM Over the Next Four Years Restore the Missing Power of Pentecost?
June 15, 2021
Early this year, TCM International developed an initiative called PrayerFast to encourage and celebrate prayer and fasting movements around the world.
November 22, 2020
Three hundred children were dressed and ready for school when the orphanage’s housemother came to George Mueller and told him there was no food to feed them. Without panicking, Mueller asked her to take the children to the dining room and prepare them for a meal. He blessed the food that they did not have, and he waited. He was confident God would provide. Within minutes, there was a knock at the door. It was a baker who said he could not sleep and somehow knew the orphanage needed bread that day. The baker brought in three batches of bread,
November 13, 2020
The Answer May Help Us Pray More Passionately for God’s Will in Our Lives, Churches, Communities, and Nation By Dale Reeves Earlier this month, Trevor DeVage challenged our church to pray every day for a week, “God, break my heart with the things that break your heart!” That’s not a safe or easy prayer. It’s not consistent with the God-please-bless-me-and-take-care-of-my-needs-and-answer-my-prayers-the-way-I-want-you-to Christianity that many American believers have grown accustomed to. I can’t claim to know everything that breaks God’s heart, but I know one must be when I try to hide from him and go my own way—as Adam and Eve
October 24, 2020
By Jerry Harris Since May, my publisher’s letter has focused on the “foundation stones” that actually make the church . . . well, the church. We find them in Acts 2:41-47. This month we focus on the seventh one mentioned: prayer. Prayer is often considered a very personal experience, something connected to a private quiet time just between oneself and God. That’s not wrong. But in thinking about prayer that way, we can miss a very important aspect of prayer. The answer to the popular question “What Would Jesus Do?” typically is informed by what Jesus actually did in Scripture.
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May 20, 2026
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May 19, 2026
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May 19, 2026
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