10 Prayers from History to Pray for Your Loved Ones
Jonathan W. Arnold,
Zachariah M. Carter
Oh Lord, with your gracious and merciful eye, look upon the contrition of my heart. According to your certain promise, stay with me as I acknowledge you to be the maker and defender of all creation.
The Posture of a Man of God
John Currie
The church is led to maturity on her mission through intentional, earnest, persistent intercessory prayer. A man of God leads from his knees!
Why Use Written Prayers? A Personal Reflection
Jonathan W. Arnold
I understand and respect the hesitations that some believers have regarding the use of written prayers—either privately or publicly. I have close friends who fall on both sides of this discussion.
The Silence of Holy Saturday
Daniel J. Brendsel
That there is such a thing as Holy Saturday in the gospel is remarkable, if oft overlooked. Why wouldn’t a simple movement from death one day to resurrection the next be sufficient?
Strengthen Your Prayer Life with an Assist from Past Pray-ers
Zachariah M. Carter
Ordinarily, desire is not enough. We usually have to be shown how to do something, with plenty of examples, before we can feel capable.
A Guide for Your Personal Worship Entering Holy Week
Jonathan Gibson
A sample day’s readings from O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, a 48-day devotional liturgy to help readers effectively prepare their hearts from Pascha (Easter) to Pentecost.
Podcast: The Most Important Thing Our Churches Have Forgotten to Do (Paul Miller)
Paul Miller deepens our understanding of prayer by highlighting why we need to pray with one another if we really want to experience the full blessing of prayer.
How to Pray for Wisdom
Erika Allen
We develop wisdom by knowing the Bible and by relying on the Holy Spirit to help us correctly live it out.
7 Things I Prayed for My Husband through 30 Years of Ministry
Lois Krogh
Marriage to a man in any particular profession has particular difficulties. Over the years, I have learned to pray for the needs of my husband that are distinct to his calling as a pastor.
How to Pray for Your Teen’s Spiritual Growth
Jon Nielson
Here are seven specific bibliical prayers that I’m praying for my own (almost) teenager, and which I’d encourage you to pray for yours.
How to Pray for a Loved One Struggling with Mental Illness
David Murray
When God gives us the right spirit in prayer—the spirit of hope, patience, and love—that will usually result in the right petitions.
Help! God Didn’t Answer My Prayer
Daniel J. Brendsel
The problem of “unanswered prayers” is one we all must reckon with. What we hear in Scripture often seems to contradict what we see in everyday experience
On the Crushing Guilt of Failing at Quiet Time
Kevin DeYoung
Meet any mature, fruitful Christian, and you can almost guarantee he regularly has something like a “quiet time”—a time set aside to talk to God in prayer and hear from God in the word.
Podcast: Christianity Is Both Easier and Harder Than You Think (Kevin DeYoung)
Kevin DeYoung discusses the reasons we’re so hard on ourselves and what it looks like to truly embrace the freedom and joy of being beloved children of our heavenly Father.
Turning Prayer from Monologue into Dialogue with God
Daniel J. Brendsel
Prayer is not pleading with a God who is not already there to somehow show up. Prayer is not enticing a silent God to finally speak.
The Counterintuitive Path to Blessing
Chris Castaldo
When we pray for God’s kingdom to come “on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10), we sometimes imagine the kingdom to be far away.
How to Pray for Your Enemies
John Piper
Jesus is not commending hypocritical prayer. He is not calling for show-prayer. He is calling for real prayer, that is, real Godward desire for the good of our enemy.
Your Prayer Life Might Be Better Than You Think
Daniel J. Brendsel
Scripture’s prayers, especially the psalms, are prayers we can and should take on our lips. We can pray through Scripture. It’s part of learning how to pray.
8 Principles of Prayer from John Owen
John Owen
There are some generally allowed principles, which, though not always duly considered, yet cannot at any time be modestly denied, that give direction toward the right performance of our duty [of prayer] herein.
Learn to Say “Help” to the Lord
Edward T. Welch
It is not always easy to talk openly to the Lord. We need help, but it is difficult to actually ask God for it. Why is it so difficult? Why do we sometimes resist speaking to him?
Podcast: How Journaling Could Reinvigorate Your Prayer Life (Erika Allen)
Erika Allen talks about the struggles of consistent prayer, how journaling can help us with that, and what God really thinks about our baby steps towards him.
How to Pray in the Spirit
Lewis Allen,
Sarah Allen
When we are praying in the Spirit, we are being obedient to what the Spirit desires, and bringing those desires to God in prayer.
9 Conversation Starters to Help You Get Out of a Prayer Rut
Paul E. Miller
How do we talk to our heavenly Father like we might to good friends? Quite simply, what does it mean to become human again as a group?
The Hidden Prayers and Pray-ers behind Great Movements
Paul E. Miller
God designed his church to look like his Son who spent most of his life hidden, so the most important people in the church are often invisible.
The 2 Characteristics of Revival
Megan Hill
By divine command, we must pray for the reinvigorating of God’s people—morning and evening, today and tomorrow, this year and next year, and in all the years until Christ’s return.
How to Pray with the End Times in Mind
John Piper
Closely connected to end-time gatherings for the sake of encouraging each other not to grow cold in love, but to persevere in faith, is the summons to end-time praying.
An Open Letter to the Prayerless Church
Paul E. Miller
The church is a spiritual force. It is animated by the Spirit of Jesus in our midst. So, if we want to see the church brought back to life, we have to make room to listen and be led by the Spirit as a community.
Who Killed the Prayer Meeting?
Paul E. Miller
Behind our busyness and wealth is a philosophy called secularism, which doesn’t just deny God’s existence but denies the existence of any spiritual world.
How to Pray for Peace
Erika Allen
The Bible promises that in Jesus, we have peace. But when our circumstances and our emotions threaten us with despair, it doesn’t always feel like that is the case.
What Does Jesus Want This Christmas?
John Piper
What does Jesus want this Christmas? We can see the answer in his prayers.
How Prayer Produces a Soul at Rest
Lois Krogh
We pray because we should, or worse, because we think we have to if we want to experience God’s blessings. A quote from John Calvin in his commentary on Matthew 6:5–6 helped me understand prayer differently.
Is It Okay to Pray a Curse on My Enemies? (Psalm 5)
C. John Collins
Prayers of this sort generally carry the unstated assumption that the evildoers will not repent and seek forgiveness; should they turn, these prayers are reversed as well.
3 Kinds of Prayers That God Answers
David Murray
We know we should pray. We start praying. But soon we give up. Or we pray with no expectation of an answer. Or we pray for the wrong things. Prayer becomes a problem rather than a solution.
Podcast: The Antidote to a Boring Prayer Life (Donald Whitney)
Donald Whitney talks about a simple, proven approach to prayer that has the potential to transform your spiritual life for the better.
How Thankfulness Increases Your Capacity for Wonder
Sam Crabtree
Thankfulness greatly intensifies one of life’s most precious capacities—namely, the capacity to marvel. We are created for it.
Praying to Our Father Is a Spiritual Privilege
Kevin DeYoung
To pray with intimacy to God as father is not a human right; it is a spiritual privilege. It is a privilege for the people of God who have been born again by the Spirit of God.
The Lord’s Prayer Teaches Us How to Pray Every Other Prayer
Kevin DeYoung
The Lord's Prayer orients us, most importantly, to the vertical dimension of our prayers. That's why we start by saying, “Our Father.”
What Is the Sin that Leads to Death? (1 John 5)
Ray Van Neste
What is the “sin that leads to death” and why does John not say we should pray for people committing such sin?
Podcast: Struggling to Pray? Start Here. (Kevin DeYoung)
Kevin DeYoung talks about our common struggle to pray and how the Lord's Prayer—the prayer that Jesus offered as a model for our prayers—can help us to pray to God day in and day out.
A Word of Encouragement for Those Who Don't Journal
Erika Allen
Those of us who have not journaled before might wonder where to even begin. We might ask why journaling is important or how it helps us in our walk with the Lord.
Help! I’ve Stopped Caring about the Things of God
Uche Anizor
I imagine all Christians sometimes feel like we don’t love God enough, don’t read our Bibles enough, don’t pray enough, don’t evangelize enough, and so forth. And there’s a sense in which we are largely correct.
Podcast: How to Lament after Two Years of Loss (Mark Vroegop)
Mark Vroegop considers what it looks like to lament the COVID-19 pandemic—and how that lament can help us heal, both individually and as churches.
Should the Sick Be Anointed with Oil? (James 5)
Robert L. Plummer
James instructs the church elders to “anoint” the sick person with oil “in the name of the Lord.” Throughout the centuries, Christians have struggled to understand and apply this verse.
A Simple Solution to a Boring Prayer Life
Donald S. Whitney
But if God invites and expects all his children—regardless of their age, IQ, education, or resources—to do the same thing—to pray—then prayer has to be simple.
What Did Jesus Teach about Prayer?
Mark Jones
As mediator, Jesus brings us to God, but he does so by pouring out his Spirit upon us so that our own prayer life is to replicate his prayer life in terms of how the Holy Spirit binds us to our Father in heaven.
To Cry Is Human, but to Lament Is Christian
Mark Vroegop
Every human being has the same opening story. Life begins with tears. It’s simply a part of what it means to be human—to cry is human. But lament is different.
Help! My Daily Worship Feels Stale
Jonathan Gibson
When we experience a time when our quiet time becomes stale, it’s easy to become discouraged, especially if we don’t know where to look for help. However, help is at hand in two ways.
How to Pray for Your Pastor’s Family
Jani Ortlund
Would you like to show your pastor your appreciation but are unsure what might be most helpful to him? More than any other gift you could give your pastor, he will treasure your prayers for his family.
5 Myths about Liturgy
Jonathan Gibson
Given that liturgy concerns the order of worship elements in a church service, it’s not whether a church has a liturgy; it’s just which liturgy the church has.
How to Pray for Joy
John Piper
John Piper shares a helpful guide for how to pray over the Word in the fight for joy.
5 Ways to Commune with Christ on a Busy Day
David Mathis
The crazy days will come. But with a little intentionality, and with a modest plan in place, you can learn to navigate these days, and even walk with greater dependence on God.
Discovering Depth and Renewal through Daily Liturgy
Jonathan Gibson
If we are dissatisfied with our times of devotion with the Lord, enriching our daily liturgy can lead to renewal and rejuvenation.
Does the Bible Direct Us to Have Quiet Times?
Jonathan Gibson
It may come as a surprise, but there is no explicit command in Scripture to have a time of worship each day, either as an individual or as a family.
A Guide for Your Personal Worship Today
Jonathan Gibson
One day of structured content from the 31-day liturgical guide Be Thou My Vision to help you in your daily worship.
Preview: ‘Be Thou My Vision’ by Jonathan Gibson
Today's episode is a special audio preview of Jonathan Gibson's new book, Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship.
Podcast: How Ancient Liturgy Can Renew Your Walk with Jesus Today (Jonathan Gibson)
Jonathan Gibson talks about why liturgy can be such a powerful force for good in the life of the Christian when rightly understood and practiced.
Draw Near to the Lord in Your Fight for Purity
J. Garrett Kell
By persevering in prayer, your gaze will be fixed on Christ, which God will use to transform you.
How to Pray for International Missions
Mark Collins
When we pray for the work of missions, we are joining an essential work as co-laborers with the missionary. But what should we pray?
Nehemiah's Deeper Concern for Building Up God's People
Wallace P. Benn
The work of God gets done when there is a good heart for God and his work. It starts in a heart with a deep concern for the glory of God and the health of his church.
You Have Everything You Need for Life and Godliness
Glenna Marshall
Knowing that God has promised to complete the work he began in us, we are well equipped to practice perseverance.
Why God Saved You
Paul R. House
God saves people for a purpose. Salvation in Christ begins a life spent growing into being like him and serving him faithfully.
Help! I Don’t Know How to Initiate Meaningful Conversations
Cheryl Marshall,
Caroline Newheiser
Whether speaking with strangers, acquaintances, or those we dearly love, we sometimes realize that we and they would greatly benefit if we would talk about God. But how?
Do This Breathing Exercise for Healthy Christian Living
Dane Ortlund
Think of Scripture and prayer as inhaling and exhaling because that shows the two necessarily go together.
What Your Church Needs More than Productivity
Paul Alexander,
Mark Dever
Prayer shows our dependence on God. It honors him as the source of all blessing, and it reminds us that converting individuals and growing churches are his works, not ours.
Podcast: Real Faithfulness Is the Kind No One Sees (Glenna Marshall)
Glenna Marshall talks about the life-changing practice of Scripture memory, the oft-given advice to give ourselves grace, and the importance of perseverance in the Christian life.
Why Good Theology Matters in Prayer
Pat Quinn
Knowing who God is and what he’s like as revealed in Scripture is very important as we approach God in prayer.
Help! I Don’t Like Praying in Public
Pat Quinn
Prayer can get repetitious, feel rote, rambly, or distracted. For these reasons, many are reticent to pray in public. How can we overcome our fears and misguided thinking?
5 Guidelines for Preparing Congregational Prayer
Pat Quinn
Effective public prayer must be well-prepared prayer. This is the engine that will move all the other principles.
Podcast: Reading the Psalms with Jesus in View (Dane Ortlund)
Dane Ortlund discusses how the psalms uniquely invite us into prayer and devotion, how they reflect the greatness of God, and how he cares for his people.
6 Questions about Prayer
John Onwuchekwa
Prayer is oxygen for the Christian. It sustains us. So it follows that prayer must be a source of life for any community of Christians.
How to Pray for Your Child’s Salvation
Jason Helopoulos
We cannot force this faith. We labor for it, we teach to it, we encourage it, and above all, we can pray for it.
The Role of Prayer and Missions in Salvation
John Piper
Prayer and evangelism are both part of the plan—the all-embracing, all-pervasive, unstoppable providence of God is the only hope for making our efforts effective.
9 Notable Quotes from Seasons of Waiting
God uses seasons of waiting to teach us patience and make us more like himself.
How to Pray about Aging
Susan Hunt
In God’s sweet providence, I began studying Psalm 90 about a year before my eightieth birthday, asking the Lord to teach me how to glorify him in old age.
14 Notable Quotes from Habits of Grace
“Habits of grace” are the God-designed channels through which his glorious grace flows—making them life-giving practices for all Christians.
Podcast: Disciplines of a Godly Woman (Barbara Hughes)
Barbara Hughes discusses why discipline is important for Christian women, highlighting her own struggle to cultivate a disciplined life over the years.
How to Pray for a New Year
Paul David Tripp
The one prayer Christ calls us all to pray requires us to let go of our momentary agendas and take up his eternal one.
10 Key Bible Verses on Spiritual Discipline
Godly character is developed over time—honed by the practice of spiritual disciplines and commitment to living honorably before men and God.
Podcast: Do You Know That Jesus Is Praying for You? (Joel Beeke)
Joel Beeke discusses the doctrine of Christ's ongoing intercession in heaven and why it's more important and spiritually edifying than you may realize.
9 Notable Quotes from ‘Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy’
Lament gives us a language to express our grief and sorrow to God, while asking him to lead us to deeper trust.
How to Pray for the African Church
Conrad Mbewe
Major news outlets in the world tend to concentrate on the economic poverty and social deprivation that characterizes much of Africa, but then many believers miss what God is doing in his church across the continent.
How to Pray When You’re Feeling Anxious
Michael S. Lundy
Anxiety may misdirect us, or, properly grasped, may point us to the right path.
How to Pray When You’re Tempted by Sexual Sin
Paul David Tripp
Sexual sin is a matter of the heart. When it comes to sex, we all need to say that the biggest problem in our sexual lives is us.
Infographic: 4 Biblical Ways to Pray
Paul E. Miller
How do you pray biblically? Paul Miller outlines four ways to help you pray biblical prayers.
5 Prayers for Children
The following prayers are from The Primer (1652) by John Owen and can be used to give children a framework for talking to the Lord in prayer.
10 Things You Should Know about Prayer
Donald S. Whitney
It’s easy to complicate prayer; but at its essence, prayer is simply talking with God.
How to Pray for Your Kids This Summer
Sam Crabtree
The clay is still soft, so ask God for sculpting opportunities in the lives of your young children.
How to Pray When Your Heart Feels Cold
Glenna Marshall
Many Christians experience seasons of spiritual apathy when the heart seems miles behind what we know to be true in our minds.
Why Ordinary Faithfulness Is Enough
Glenna Marshall
Feeding your faithfulness is an unremarkable practice in real-time. It’s unglamorous by the world’s standards, yet it is precious as it contributes to a life of holding fast to Christ.
An Open Letter to Husbands on Mother’s Day
David W. Jones
The fact that Mother’s Day may have secular origins does not mean that it can’t be used by Christian husbands to remind us of biblical principles related to our mothers and wives.
How God Helps Us Pray according to His Will
Donald S. Whitney
Our focus is on God through prayer; our glance is at the Bible; and we turn Godward and pray about every matter that occurs to us as we read.
How to Pray about Your Sin
Bryan Chapell
Praying in Jesus’s name is an acknowledgement of our total dependence on his provision. We push away from any personal claim on God’s blessing and lean entirely on Christ’s provision.
John Piper’s Prayer for the COVID-19 Pandemic
John Piper
Grant recovery. Grant a cure. Deliver us—your poor, helpless creatures—from these sorrows, we pray.
Two of Prayer’s Essential Ingredients
John Onwuchekwa
The resurrection is the most important thing to behold in God’s word to fuel our desire to pray. But really, we need all of God’s word. We also need God’s people.
12 Prayer Ideas for New Believers
Sam Emadi
Praying regularly is hard work. So how do we develop the discipline of a healthy prayer life?
10 Key Bible Verses on Prayer
We can learn what and how to pray to God from his very Word—even from the example of his own Son.
Jesus Prayed for Your Sanctification
John MacArthur
On the night of Jesus’s betrayal, before he prayed for himself, he prayed for his own.
11 Questions about Prayer
J. I. Packer,
Joel Scandrett
What is prayer and when and how should we do it? Explore answers to some common questions from To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism.
9 Ways to Guard Your Personal Relationship with God
David Murray
Like all healthy and satisfying relationships, our relationship with God needs time and energy.
How Our Theology Shapes Our Prayers
Graham A. Cole
Theology helps us uncover what we know about God and turn it into prayer and praise to God.
4 Prayers to Pray When You’re Afraid
When fear paralyzes you, turn to the Lord through his word and in prayer and be comforted by the light that overcomes darkness.
Journey through the Psalms: A 7-Day Devotional
Humans are relational, emotional beings—and nothing reveals this more beautifully than the book of Psalms.
How to Pray During Marital Conflict
Andreas J. Köstenberger,
Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger
The potential causes for conflict in marriage are virtually limitless. We must put on the armor of God and pray for each other and for our relationships—often!
How to Pray for the Global Church
Samuel T. Logan Jr.
In praying for the global church, start by remembering that there is just one church of Jesus Christ.
How to Pray for Your Pastor
Jeramie Rinne
Pray your pastor would love God, and you, so much that he would be willing to disappoint you for God’s glory.
How to Pray for Unbelieving Family Members
William Philip
God cares for us, and our families, even as he controls the vastness of all creation. And he hears the prayers of all the children he loves—including our prayers for those whom we love.
Infographic: How Is Your Prayer Life?
We recently asked over 14,000 people about the state of their prayers lives and gathered some stats about established habits as well as some common pain points.
4 Prayers to Pray through Spiritual Darkness
Turn to the Lord in prayer and in his word during times of despair and discouragement. He is near and read to defend, protect, and preserve those he loves.
The Battle of Accepting Our Limits
Paul David Tripp
This gospel meditation explores the idea of being worried and confused with the Christian life, offering an invitation to turn to God when life doesn't make sense.
Podcast: Prayer as an Invitation, Not an Obligation (John Onwuchekwa)
In this episode, John Onwuchekwa discusses how prayer can deepen our relationship with God instead of being a source of guilt.
The Right Way to Ask for Prayer
Edward T. Welch
God did not create us to be self-protective, so being so will eventually lead to misery rather than safety.
How the Lord’s Prayer Affected September 11, 2001
Lane T. Dennis
The pattern for prayer that Jesus has given to you and to me exists so that we may discover peace and contentment, hope and forgiveness, truth and assurance.
How to Pray in the Wake of Hurricane Dorian
Mark Vroegop
Natural disasters can be a doorway for spiritual questions and eternal decisions. We can do more than just watch and marvel.
How to Pray in Spiritual Warfare
Iain M. Duguid
To fight the good fight, we need to be in constant contact with God, and the means by which we stay in contact is by prayer.
4 Prayers to Pray for the Sick
When or loved ones are burdened with suffering and illness, find comfort in Scripture and in these historic prayers of saints that have gone before.
How to Pray When Your Kids Go Off to College
Sam Crabtree
Not all parents can provide what they want for their children, but all parents can pray.
How to Pray when Preparing for Family Vacation
Andreas J. Köstenberger,
Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger
God knows you need rest, and wants you to get it, but we can honor him by submitting our plans to him so he can direct our steps—even in our vacation!
4 Prayers to Pray when You’re Repentant
Turn to God and his Word and the prayers of the saints when your heart cries out to the Lord in repentance.
4 Prayers to Pray When You’re Anxious
Read four prayers from church history along with passages from Scripture, and be encouraged to know the Lord hears you.
4 Prayers to Pray when You’re Sorrowed
Turn to the Word of God and the prayers of the saints when your heart is saddened and in need of the gospel’s hope.
How to Pray When You’re Fighting with Your Spouse
Paul David Tripp
Every marriage is guided by a set of habits. The question is, are they healthy habits that result in a God-honoring and joyful marriage?
4 Prayers to Pray when You’re Waiting
Find encouragement through Scripture and the prayers of the saints for when your spirit faints and flags—the Lord is near.
Revival Is a Corporate Blessing
Megan Hill
Revival is a work of the Spirit, it is extraordinary, and it comes to a group of people.
3 Practical Ways to Remain Faithful in Ministry
John MacArthur
Practical things you need to do in your life to remain faithful in ministry are the same means of grace that are available to every believer.
How to Pray When You’re Struggling to Understand the Bible
Jen Wilkin
Prayer is the means by which we implore the Holy Spirit to take up residence in our study time.
The Prayers of Jesus: A 5-Day Devotional
Jesus’s ministry on earth as a human was marked by a devotion to prayer. Through his prayer life, we see what it means to truly depend on God.
If Jesus Is God, Why Did He Pray?
Mark Jones
Many theologians over the course of church history have wrestled with this question. The answer to this question is relatively simple.
3 Words of Counsel to Sufferers
Paul David Tripp
Be aware that you're always preaching to yourself some kind of gospel.
How Do You Pursue Neighbors Who Continually Avoid Your Invitation?
Rosaria Butterfield
Here are a couple of barriers you can remove to make people feel loved and welcomed.
The Problem of Prayerlessness
John Onwuchekwa
A church’s commitment to prayer is one of the greatest determiners of its effectiveness in ministry.
One Big Reason the Church Doesn't Pray
John Onwuchekwa
Are we living as if we can accomplish things on our own, or are we praying to God like we know we can't?
Is It OK to Call God My Friend?
Drew Hunter
Jesus is—and will always be—our king. And yet, it’s also true that our king has invited us to be his friends.
How to Pray
The Lord's Prayer—a simple prayer which Jesus taught his disciples—can also show us how to talk with God in prayer.
C.S. Lewis and the Role of the Physical Body in Prayer
Joe Rigney
Prayer, whether it is confession, supplication, thanksgiving, or adoration, always involves a surrender, an embracing of God’s ever-present presence.
God Taught Us to Pray
On May 3rd, across the country, countless will gather to come before the Lord for the National Day of Prayer.
The Prayers of Jesus: A 7-Day Reading Plan
Today, we're introducing a new 7-day reading plan on ESV.org to guide you through some of the prayers Jesus uttered during his earthly ministry.
Cultivating Habits of Grace: A 5-Day Devotional
Start this 5 day video devotional on 3 life-giving habits that can act as channels of God's grace in your life.
How to Pray This Thanksgiving
Use this prayer as a guide as you lead your family at the table or as spend time in personal prayer this Thanksgiving.
An Open Letter to Those Suffering from Depression
Shona Murray
Although you feel hopeless and helpless, I want to assure you that there is hope and there is help.
5 Tips for Managing Your Emotions
Carolyn Mahaney,
Nicole Mahaney Whitacre
How do we handle our feelings? How do we fix them when they are broken? How do we keep our emotions from taking control of our lives?
6 Tips for Reading the Bible with Your Kids
David Murray
Here are six practical suggestions for digging into God's Word with your kids.
How to Journal through the Psalms
Lydia Brownback
In the Psalms we find how to be real with God and simultaneously reverent—how he wants us to relate to him as his children.
3 Ways You Can Ignite a Passion for Church Planting in Your Church
Thabiti Anyabwile
If you desire to spread a passion for church planting in your church, go to Scripture, partner with other churches, and pray, pray, pray.
7 Back-to-School Prayers for Students
Jaquelle Crowe
Students: as you head back to school, don't forget to prepare and recalibrate your hearts for the days ahead through intentional prayer.
5 Common Evangelism Excuses
Mark Dever
Jesus says to tell all nations the good news, but we haven’t. Jesus calls people to be fishers of men, but we prefer to watch. Peter says to always be ready to give a reason for the hope that we have, but we are not.
10 Things You Should Know about Being Single
Marshall Segal
God made you and me for far more than marriage. If we miss this, we risk wasting our lives running in wrong directions, pursuing pitiful dreams, and serving tiny gods.
9 Passages to Read on National Day of Prayer
Nine verses to meditate on during National Day of Prayer.
Grace Wild and Free
David Mathis
The means of grace—the Bible, prayer, and fellowship—are regular channels by which we can experience God's grace.
10 Things You Should Know about the Trinity
Fred Sanders
God wants us to learn about and consider the Trinity. Here are 10 things you should know.
7 Tips for Sharing the Gospel with Teens
Jaquelle Crowe
Before teens can actually explain the gospel, they must first know it themselves. Then they must know how to articulate it.
One Powerful Reason to Pray
Michele Bennett Walton
Though God’s loving disposition toward us was settled at the cross, our feelings and circumstances often shake our confidence in who God is for us.
10 Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year
Donald S. Whitney
Even those most faithful to God occasionally need to pause and think about the direction of their lives.
God's Provision in All Things
Sam Storms
We live in a world that has trivialized God, having reduced him to human proportions.
Building a Culture of Spiritually Intentional Relationships
Mark Dever,
Jamie Dunlop
Most Active Does Not Equal Most Fruitful
Could it be that the most active members of your congregation are the least fruitful? Consider for a moment: in God’s sight, not all activity carries equal value. …
Giving Thanks Is Better Together
Megan Hill
Thanksgiving is not simply a thank-you card, sealed in an envelope and intended only for the eyes of the divine addressee. Thanksgiving is an open, public declaration.
How to Pray in Times of Trouble
Philip Graham Ryken
When we cannot articulate our prayer requests to God, the Holy Spirit understands our groanings and translates them into intelligible prayers that God the Father can understand and will answer.
Making the Most of Your Bible Study
Jen Wilkin
The more we are tugged, the more we have to work to guard the time we give to personal study of our Bibles.
How We Can Best Pray for Our Hurting Friends
Dave Furman
Rather than just telling people you're praying for them, pray aloud for them in their presence.
10 Disciplines of a Godly Woman
Barbara Hughes
Discipline seems like a hard word, but discipline is your lifeline, something that you learn to embrace and thank God for as you grow in him.
Practical Help for Times of Trouble
Philip Graham Ryken
The things that have helped me in times of trouble are the ordinary things that God talks about in his Word.
What to Do When It Feels Like God Is against You
Philip Graham Ryken
When you’re facing times of trouble and it feels like God is against you, there are two important things to do.
The Christian Faith of Jane Austen
Michael A. G. Haykin
Learn more about how Jane Austen's faith went from sympathetic to genuine.
How to Prioritize Family Prayer as a Leader
Ajith Fernando
We must proactively pursue the priority of prayer in the home and somehow make the time for it.
How to Keep Corporate Prayer Focused
Megan Hill
We want to avoid the various negative experiences many of us have faced in corporate prayer.
How to Pray When You’re Feeling Shame
Heather Nelson
Here are three things to pray for when you’re feeling ashamed.
Why Spontaneous Prayer and Planned Prayer Are Both Important
Megan Hill
Praying about something right in the moment reminds us of our dependence, but planned prayer has its place, too.
Let's Pray
Megan Hill
Let's pray. How many times have you been privileged to say or hear those words?
10 Things You Should Know about Corporate Prayer
Megan Hill
We tend to think of prayer as primarily a solitary and private activity, but the Bible tells a different story.
3 Tips for Leading Prayer
Megan Hill
If the fear of public speaking is the general population’s greatest fear, fear of praying publicly may be its Christian equivalent.
You Were Made to Meditate
David Mathis
God designed you with the capacity to pause and ponder. He means for you not just to hear him, but to reflect on what he says.
God Is Great, God Is Good
Lee Tankersley
Our need to anchor our souls with the reminder of God's goodness and greatness hasn't changed.
Video: Don Whitney on the Benefit of Praying the Bible
In this video, Justin Taylor sits down with Don Whitney to discuss what it means to pray through God's Word.
How to Pray through the Psalms
Donald S. Whitney
As a whole, the psalms comprise the best place in Scripture from which to pray Scripture.
Praying the Bible vs. Interpreting the Bible
Donald S. Whitney
One hurdle many people face when trying to pray the Bible is confusing prayer time with Bible study, interpretation, and application.
What George Mueller Can Teach Us about Prayer
Donald S. Whitney
George Mueller (1805–1898) is widely considered one the greatest men of prayer and faith since the days of the New Testament.
Video: 6 Reasons to Pray the Bible
Here are six benefits of praying through the Bible.
How to Stop Praying the Same Old Things about the Same Old Things
Donald S. Whitney
“Empty phrases” are ruinous in any area of spirituality, but especially in prayer.
Praying the Bible: Day 5
John 5
The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a …
Praying the Bible: Day 4
1 Thessalonians 2
Paul's Ministry to the Thessalonians
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as …
Praying the Bible: Day 3
Psalm 67
Make Your Face Shine upon Us
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face to shine upon us, …
Praying the Bible: Day 2
Psalm 37
He Will Not Forsake His Saints
Of David.
Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb. …
Praying the Bible: Day 1
Psalm 23
The Lord Is My Shepherd
A Psalm of David.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He …
Why You Should Read Augustine's Confessions
Leland Ryken
I believe that Augustine's masterpiece is a largely unread book because people approach it with the wrong expectations, quickly become frustrated, and leave the book unfinished.
Slaying the Idol of the Seen
Ann Voskamp
Slay the idol of focusing on only what can be seen, lauded, noticed.
How to Ask for Help
Edward T. Welch
Asking people for help makes calling out to the Lord seem easy by comparison.
4 Things to Remember When Reading the Bible
Tony Reinke
Proper Bible reading begins before we open the book. It begins in our approach.
Ask a Pastor's Wife: Prayer Life
Gloria Furman responds to Laura who writes, "How do you organize your prayer life?"
Escaping the Burden of Prayer
William Philip
If you are responding to Jesus and following him, then you are praying.
Praying in Response to God's Word
Nigel Beynon,
Andrew Sach
We have a conversation when we hear God speak to us in the Bible and then we speak to him in prayer.