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• 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.
  
  
• 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?
  
  
  • The Atheist and the Bear Prayer
    Prayer in time of need is not the only time we should pray.
    
    
• 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.
  
  
  • Types of Prayer
    The various types of prayer give us many ways to pray and build our relationship with God.
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • Prayers of Praise
    A prayer of praise is all about God.
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • Prayers of Confession
    Confession of sin in prayer is a key part of an active prayer life.
    
    
  • Prayers of Supplication
    We ask of God in our prayers of supplication, either a petition for ourselves or an intercessory prayer for others.
    
    
  • Meditative Prayer
    Experience the ultimate expression of your relationship with God--encountering Him--through meditative prayer. Sometimes called contemplative or centering prayer.
    
    
• Specific Prayers
  Here are some popular specific prayers to help you to a more robust prayer life.
  
  
  • An Hour with the LORD
    Here's a great way to spend an hour with God--thanksgiving and praise, confession, and listening to Him.
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • 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.
    
    
  • The Sinner's Prayer
    The Sinner's Prayer is often used when proclaiming your belief in God, and Jesus' offer of redemption.
    
    
  • Daily Prayer
    This is the Daily Prayer John Eldredge wrote. It's powerful!
    
    
  • Seeking God
    A prayer for those seeking God and to know Him better.
    
    
  • Acceptance of God's Grace
    A prayer for the acceptance of God's grace.
    
    
  • Distorted Truth
    A prayer against distorted truth.
    
    
  • Spiritual Warfare Prayer
    A prayer for spiritual warfare.
    
    
• Healing Prayer
  Healing prayer is effective for physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual issues.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Blog Your Thoughts
  Please share your thoughts, feelings, ideas, questions, opinions...and prayers on our blog.
  
  
• Prayer Requests
  Make your prayer requests here to be passed along to our group of intercessors. Completely confidential.
  
  
• Missing Children Prayer
  Missing children need our help. Prayer can make a difference. Please join us.
  
  
• Articles of Interest
  We post articles here that we have found of interest regarding prayer and related topics.
  
  
  • 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.
    
    
  • Soaking Prayer
    Soaking prayer is another way to describe meditative prayer. The image of soaking in God's presence is a comforting one.
    
    
• 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!
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  • Books Focus on Prayer
    Here are books that we have found useful for our prayer life and for our spiritual walk with Christ.
    
    
  • Music Focus on Prayer
    Here are music selections that we have found useful in our prayer life.
    
    
  • Prayer Links
    Links that we have found helpful, informative or just plain interesting in regard to prayer.
    
    
• Newsletter
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