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  • Acceptance of God's Grace
    A prayer for the acceptance of God's grace.

  • An Hour with the LORD
    Here's a great way to spend an hour with God--thanksgiving and praise, confession, and listening to Him.

  • Articles of Interest
    We post articles here that we have found of interest regarding prayer and related topics.

  • Blog Your Thoughts
    Please share your thoughts, feelings, ideas, questions, opinions...and prayers on our blog.

  • Books Focus on Prayer
    Here are books that we have found useful for our prayer life and for our spiritual walk with Christ.

  • Contact Us
    This is where to contact us.

  • Daily Prayer
    This is the Daily Prayer John Eldredge wrote. It's powerful!

  • Distorted Truth
    A prayer against distorted truth.

  • Focus on Prayer Home
    Hear from God. Learn how to pray the kinds of prayers that work, Make an online prayer request or take part in our interactive forum.

  • Healing Prayer
    Healing prayer is effective for physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual issues.

  • How to Pray
    While there are no strict rules on prayer and how to pray, there are guidelines and methods that increase the effectiveness of the different types of prayer.

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  • Meditative Prayer
    Experience the ultimate expression of your relationship with God--encountering Him--through meditative prayer. Sometimes called contemplative or centering prayer.

  • Missing Children Prayer
    Missing children need our help. Prayer can make a difference. Please join us.

  • Music Focus on Prayer
    Here are music selections that we have found useful in our prayer life.

  • Newsletter
    Sign up for our newsletter to receive up-to-date and interesting information about prayer and related topics.

  • Other Resources
    Our prayer resource section provides links to a wide variety of material--books, music, audiobooks, etc.--that we and others have found useful in our prayer life.

  • Prayer Essentials
    There are many types and several styles of prayer, along with various methods. Here are the essentials you need to know for an effective prayer life.

  • Prayer Links
    Links that we have found helpful, informative or just plain interesting in regard to prayer.

  • Prayer Requests
    Make your prayer requests here to be passed along to our group of intercessors. Completely confidential.

  • Prayers for Spiritual Warfare
    Spiritual warfare is a reality of Christian life, despite the ultimate victory of Jesus over Satan. Our two offensive weapons in this war are the Bible and prayer.

  • Prayers of Confession
    Confession of sin in prayer is a key part of an active prayer life.

  • Prayers of Praise
    A prayer of praise is all about God.

  • Prayers of Supplication
    We ask of God in our prayers of supplication, either a petition for ourselves or an intercessory prayer for others.

  • Prayers of Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving and gratitude are key indicators of the amount of trust we have in God. Our prayer life should include giving thanks.

  • Secrets to Answered Prayer--Challenge Your Beliefs
    Answered prayer is what we're all looking for. But our own beliefs may be holding us back in unexpected ways.

  • Seeking God
    A prayer for those seeking God and to know Him better.

  • Serenity Prayer
    The Serenity prayer is one of the most well-known prayers, after the Lord's Prayer. Though not many know it in its entirety.

  • Soaking Prayer
    Soaking prayer is another way to describe meditative prayer. The image of soaking in God's presence is a comforting one.

  • Specific Prayers
    Here are some popular specific prayers to help you to a more robust prayer life.

  • Spiritual Warfare Prayer
    A prayer for spiritual warfare.

  • The Atheist and the Bear Prayer
    Prayer in time of need is not the only time we should pray.

  • The Book
    Order your Book with all the information about an effective, meaningful prayer life from the Focus on Prayer web site conveniently compiled for you. Plus more!

  • The Lord's Prayer
    The Lord's Prayer is what we call the prayer Jesus gave to the disciples when they asked him to teach them to pray.

  • The Sinner's Prayer
    The Sinner's Prayer is often used when proclaiming your belief in God, and Jesus' offer of redemption.

  • Types of Prayer
    The various types of prayer give us many ways to pray and build our relationship with God.

  • Who We Are
    Who we are--are just fellow travellers along the path, walking, as best we can, alongside Jesus, creating a prayer life that keeps us close to Him.

  • Why Pray?
    Why pray at all? If God knows everything and controls everything and if His will is done, what are we trying to accomplish by prayer?

 

 

 

"Find out about prayer.  Someone must find out about prayer."

--Albert Einstein

  

"He prayeth best who loveth best /All things, great and small."

--Samuel Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  

"In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

--John Bunyan