Prayer

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.

April 5, 2014

Christian Standard

When Praying Becomes Hard

By Danny R. Von Kanel Dot lost a son and daughter””her son died in an accident and her daughter from cancer. Praying became difficult. The pain silenced any attempt to approach God. Her dilemma seemed insurmountable. Yet, over time, communication returned, her pain eased, and life became livable again. Dot stumbled upon some keys to reopening communication with God after praying becomes difficult. These six keys can help restore that dialogue.   1. Tell God It”s Hard to Pray When you tell God it”s hard to pray, you are praying. Simply say, “God, it”s too hard to pray to you

May 4, 2013

Christian Standard

Praying for One Transforms Church

By Kent E. Fillinger “Pray for One.” Bo Chancey sent an e-mail to everyone at Manchester (New Hampshire) Christian Church on the Thursday before he preached his first sermon there. He told them his inaugural message would be for each person to pray for one person to follow Christ. That Sunday, Chancey told the 1,200 who had gathered that if everyone would consistently pray for one person, the church would double in size in two years. Chancey continued to reinforce his “pray for one” message in his various communications. “Pray for one” is now part of the church”s cultural language. People regularly

February 7, 2013

Christian Standard

Drive-through Prayer Draws Traffic

By Jennifer Johnson Since last April, Centerpointe Christian Church (Lexington, KY) has offered “drive-through prayer” one Wednesday night a month. A small team of volunteers stands on several corners and in front of the church waving signs to direct drivers to the building, while two couples wait to pray with anyone who pulls in. “We see everything, from families having trouble to people coming right from the bars,” says Rex Hughes, coordinator of the ministry. “Each month is a reminder of the burdens people around us carry every day.” The team hands out cold water in the summer and hot

November 15, 2011

Kim Butts

Light the Fire 24-7-520

Every Week for 10 Years

“Light the Fire: 24-7-520” invites churches, schools, and ministries into an ambitious 10-year journey of prayer, with creative prayer rooms and a weekly torch of prayer passing from place to place.

August 22, 2011

Brian Giese

prayer life

Life Lessons on Prayer

Brian Giese shares practical lessons learned over decades about making prayer a priority, developing quiet time with God, praying through temptation, pursuing evangelism, and cultivating praise and thanksgiving.

February 15, 2011

Christian Standard

Pray Expectantly

By Sheila S. Hudson Dr. Karen Jones made her way to my ground-floor office. As she blinked back tears in her hazel eyes, she broke the news that funding from the State Department of Education hadn”t arrived. What she didn”t say was, without those funds, my job would go away. But both of us knew that was true. I was stunned. Neither of us could believe it. For seven years, Karen and I had worked hand in glove providing summer workshops for special education teachers. Now it seemed our partnership was coming to an end. Not only that, but at

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