Spiritual Growth
Key Prayers to Grow in Faith: Listening to God, Feeling God’s Presence, Reflecting God’s Glory
Three key prayers to grow in faith are learning how to listen to God, learning how to feel God’s presence when we feel alone, and learning how to reflect God’s glory in all we do. Here are three powerful prayers that will help you grow in faith written by inspirational author Evelyn Bence. Listening to…
Read MorePrayer about Handling Bad and Good Feelings in Good Ways
Praying honestly about our feelings both good and bad can help avoid the consequences of regretting things said and done that we do when under the influence of highly charged emotions and feelings. Here is a prayer for you written by counselor Rev. Greg Griffin that will give you God’s help with your feelings and…
Read MorePrayer to “Be Still and Know that I Am God” Psalm 46:10
To have peace in a noisy world requires meditation and being still. Here is a prayer for you using Bible verses to help you say, “Be still my heart, be still my soul so I can rediscover that I am still in love with my Creator.” Prayer for Stillness Lord, I need to be still. …
Read MoreComing to Jesus “Out of the Depths” Prayer
The prayer lyrics from the hymn “Jesus I Come to Thee” can be used in your prayer times when you are praying for needs while struggling with grief, illness, sorrow and feeling lost and far away from God. This is based on the Bible verse Psalm 130:1 where it says, “Out of the depths I…
Read MorePraying when Touched by Compassion
A strong sense of compassion can lead us to pray for strangers or those we don’t know well. Author Donna Teti explains what prompted her to write this poem: “It is a poem I wrote after hearing of the sudden death of a young man in our hometown. I did not know him personally but grieved…
Read MoreDeciding Where to Volunteer Prayer
This “deciding where to volunteer prayer” can help us sort out where our service can make the biggest impact in light of our limited time, energy and resources. Often we volunteer simply because someone asks us to, or we feel a sense of obligation or we feel proud that we were asked or there is…
Read MorePraying to Overcome Procrastination
Here’s a prayer for you to help overcome procrastination. Procrastination is defined as voluntarily spending time doing low priority tasks and putting off the higher priority ones to a later time even though we’ll be worse off trying to make up for lost time when the deadline comes. All of us procrastinate for different reasons…
Read MorePrayer for Humility
When you need a prayer about feeling left out, under-appreciated, humiliated or wronged, praying for the gift or virtue of humility is a wonderful way to receive God’s help. Christian writers throughout history have listed humility, or the ability to set aside our egos, pride and desire for approval by others, as one of the…
Read MorePraying When Your Heart Fails
If you’re in a life situation where your heart has literally or figuratively failed, prayer can always help improve the condition of your heart as writer David Shelton shares in this life-altering article. . Listen to Your Heart So…where are you sitting now while reading this? Starbucks? From the sofa in your one-bedroom apartment? Maybe…
Read MoreOvercoming Hurt
How do you get over hurt feelings? Here is a practical way to pray and apply the scriptures to overcome your daily hurts – big or small – using the OUCH method developed by Charlene Stamper in her Attitude Makeover series. ATTITUDE MAKEOVER OUCH! – HURT HOLLY Has someone ever HURT your feelings, or made…
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