Prayer
August 2025
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Ephesians 6:18
Articles
How to Pray
A Prayer for Us
A Prayer for Us
by Robin Vickers
A Prayer for Us
A Prayer for Us
A Prayer for Us
by Becky Gladden
Why Pray?
A Prayer for Us
Why Pray?
by Joyce V.
How to Pray
How to Pray
by Robin Vickers
“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” Jeremiah 29:12
Prayer is the most beautiful kind of closeness we can have with our Father.
It’s talking to God in complete faith.
It’s simply talking to God. He hears you and has responded to every request in His Word.
Prayer is so powerful. It’s a beautiful gift that God gave us to connect with Him, to fellowship with Him, and to be present with Him every day. It’s our outlet. It’s our place of peace, joyful and beautiful. Sometimes it hurts, but we are comforted because that is the God we serve. There are moments in life when things get pretty heavy. When your heart is tired, your thoughts are scattered, and sometimes we don’t know what to say to God. Sometimes we know to pray, but life is hard. We open our Bibles but still feel the weight of the world. It’s easy to wonder if God hears you.
That’s the beautiful thing about prayer. It’s not about having the right words or sounding like someone else. It’s not about performance. Prayer is our life. It’s like a conversation with your Father who already knows everything about you. He knows the motives of your heart. The beautiful thing is He knows how it ends because He is the Author. Prayer is a beautiful act of worship.
Have you ever been intimidated hearing someone pray out loud? It’s like, “Wow, they know exactly what to say.” But prayer isn’t about sounding perfect. It’s about pouring your heart out to God, and that is the most beautiful sound. It’s not a competition or a show. God is not impressed by fancy words He’s moved by your faith. It’s about hearing His daughter speak and the joy of smiling at a word written in Scripture.
“Lord, I love You” or “Lord, I need Your help” that’s powerful. “Hallelujah,” the highest form of praise, is all you need to say. “God, You’re faithful” is enough. Prayer is a part of you, because if you belong to Jesus, the Holy Spirit dwells inside of you. He hears every whisper, every groan, and collects every tear.
Your prayers matter even if they don’t sound powerful. It’s not your strength. It’s God’s power, authority, and grace that moves mountains. It’s not our job to impress God and honestly, we couldn’t. God doesn’t need help. He is the Helper.
It’s easy to treat prayer like a moment before meals or a cry during a storm. But God wants us to praise Him in the storm and in the sunshine. The Bible tells us to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). That means keeping your heart focused on Him and continuing to talk to Him. Pray while you’re driving. Pray while you’re washing dishes. Pray while you’re hurting, celebrating, or healing. Prayer isn’t limited to a time and place — it’s a posture of worship. Let prayer become your rhythm. Let it become your response when life gets hard.
Pray without ceasing! My beautiful sister, don’t stop. Keep praying. Keep reading. Keep seeking God. Let the Father be your strength even when He is silent. He’s listening. Even when you can’t put your feelings into words.
We stay firm and don’t shrink back in fear. Every lie of the enemy must be silenced because no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
I want to encourage you: don’t let fear of “praying wrong” keep you from opening your mouth. Your voice matters. You matter. So pray, cry, whisper, laugh, worship, and declare the goodness of God wherever you go. Pray with joy, with full confidence that Jesus loves you. Prayer is a gift. God’s not looking for perfection He’s looking for surrender.
Closing Prayer
Lord, thank You for the gift of prayer. Help me draw near to You with confidence and faith. Remind me that You hear me even when I don’t have the words. Let prayer be my rhythm, my refuge, and my worship. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
A Prayer for Us
A Prayer for Us
by Becky Gladden
Lord as we enter into prayer we come before you in a place of faith, thanking you for your generous and abundant Grace and Mercy, asking for your forgiveness and waiting for your guidance. “Be still and know that I am God.” Ps. 46:10.
“…Lead me by the still waters, restore my soul…” Ps 23.
Teach us your ways Lord, make our paths straight. Cause us to stay focused on your will for us, not our own will. Remind us that “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45. Knowing that this affects other people, may we exercise
Random Acts of Kindness as we further God’s Kingdom.
Let us always be sensitive to the feelings and needs of others as St. Paul teachers us in Romans 12:18 “If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”
May we be sensitive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. May we always ask ourselves, When the Lord speaks, do I listen?
He will show us the way. Now we do our part and act in faith and confidence that we are in the will of God.
Why Pray?
Why Pray?
by Joyce V.
Perhaps you’re reading this because you’ve wondered about the greatness of God’s forgiveness, or maybe you’ve pondered whether God could forgive you, or what is required on your part to receive God’s forgiveness. Let’s look at each of those issues.
How great is God’s love? Well, the writer of Psalm 86:5 says, “For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all who call upon You.” Isn’t it wonderful to know that the God of creation is ‘ready to forgive’? All we need to do is call upon Him.
Isaiah 55:7 says “Let the wicked abandon his way, And the unrighteous person his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.” This covers it all! God offers compassion and pardon to the wicked person with wrong actions, and to the unrighteous person with bad thoughts. Isn’t that all of us sometimes?
John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” This is the greatest gift of love! God offered His own Son to provide forgiveness for our sins. But you must accept this gift in order to have your sins forgiven and receive eternal life.
Could God forgive you? Maybe you think I just don’t know what you’ve done, and it’s so bad that it couldn’t be forgiven. Well, let’s look at some of the people that God has already forgiven.
Jacob-cheated his twin brother Esau out of his birthright and then their father’s blessing. His brother hated him for it, and planned to kill him after their father’s death, but God forgave him. He even used Jacob’s 12 sons to create the twelve tribes of Israel.
King David-was perhaps the most famous king of Israel. He committed adultery with the beautiful Bathsheeba, and got her pregnant. He tried in vain to cover it up, but when Bathsheeba’s honorable husband Uriah wouldn’t cooperate, David murdered him. God forgave him, and even called him a man after His own heart.
The Apostle Paul-before the name change, he was Saul and a powerful persecutor of the followers of Jesus. He approved of the stoning of the Christian martyr Stephen, and guarded the coats of the people who stoned him. God forgave him and recruited him in a miraculous way to be a disciple to the Gentiles for Him. God even used him to write a large portion of the New Testament!
If God can forgive a cheat, an adulterer, a murderer, and a man who persecuted Christians, he can certainly forgive you and me, and praise God for it!!!
What do you need to do to receive God’s forgiveness? II Chronicles 30:9b says, “For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.” Don’t you see? When we feel unforgiven and far from God, we’ve moved, not God! We need to return to Him, by going to church and fellowshipping with other believers, reading our Bibles, and praying. When we return to God, He says he won’t turn His face from us.
I John 1:9 says, “ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” It’s just that simple! To receive forgiveness, we need to confess our sins, then God will forgive us and make us clean again. But this forgiveness is only available to individuals in God’s family. If you haven’t accepted Christ as your Savior, Romans 10:9 makes it easy, “that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;” If you’ve just taken those two steps, you’re now in the family of God, welcome! Please join a Bible believing church and become a regular attender. May God bless you.
Daily Reading
Daily Reading
AUGUST
08/01 Philippians 4:6, 7
08/02 I Thessalonians 5:17, 18
08/03 Matthew 6:5 - 13
08/04 Hebrews 4:14 – 16
08/05 Jeremiah 33:2, 3
08/06 Luke 6:27, 28
08/07 Psalm 34:17 - 19
08/08 Psalm 86:3 - 7
08/09 James 1:5 – 8
08/10 Psalm 18:6
08/11 Proverbs 15:8
08/12 Psalm 17:6 – 8
08/13 I Peter 5:7
08/14 Psalm 5:1 - 3
08/15 Proverbs 15:29
08/16 I Timothy 2:1 – 4
08/17 Psalm 55:16, 17
08/18 James 5:16
08/19 Psalm 66:16 – 20
08/20 Psalm 145:14 – 18
08/21 Matthew 5:43 - 46
08/22 2 Chronicles 7:14
08/23 Psalm 19:14
08/24 Romans 12:9 - 12
08/25 Colossians 4:2
08/26 Psalm 69:13 – 16
08/27 I John 5:14
08/28 Jeremiah 29:11 – 13
08/29 Psalm 42:8
08/30 Micah 7:7
08/31 Romans 8:26 -28