10 Ways to Pray More

Most of us struggle with having a consistent prayer life. If you struggle, too, here are some simple options to pray more:

  1. Establish a focus for each day’s prayer. For example, you might use today to pray for your family, followed by praying for neighbors tomorrow. Don’t wonder what you’ll pray about each day—plan for it. 
  2. Set aside five minutes each hour to pray. Everyone I know can find five minutes. It’s just that we don’t wisely think about what we’ll do with the five minutes. 
  3. Pray every time you pass particular places (like a school, a mosque, another church). Let these places trigger you into prayer. Pray especially that the people involved in each place would know Jesus as Savior and Lord. 
  4. Pray as you read the Word. Respond to each text that points out sin or gives a promise. Tell God about things you don’t understand. Let your Bible reading become dialogical. 
  5. Pray the ACTS pattern. If you don’t know that pattern, it’s pray this way: Adoration (praise) about who God is, Confession of your sin, Thanksgiving for God’s blessings, and Supplication (intercession) for others.
  6. Pray as you drive. You can have a strong conversation with God while you’re driving some place. Take advantage of that opportunity. 
  7. Pray for your family every day. You’d think this one is automatic, but I’m learning that it’s not. Many believers don’t even pray this way. 
  8. Spend one day per week praying for non-believers. If you don’t know any non-believers, pray for people you know, but whose spiritual condition you don’t know. Pray they will know Jesus. 
  9. Prayerwalk your neighborhood. Pray for each home, asking God to make that home a “lighthouse” of light in a local community. 
  10. Just open your heart to God and tell Him what you’re thinking. He won’t be surprised—and He wants us to trust Him with our emotions, anger, etc. 

What would you add to this list? 

4 Comments

  • Robin Ebeyer says:

    I would add to pray for the nations to hear the Gospel, especially those UPG’s/UUPG’s where less than 2% are Christians. Pray the the Name of Jesus would be heard and that people would accept Him.

  • Great stuff! I love #9 – we call our missional communities “Lighthouses” at our church and our vision for our city is to see “30 Lights” scattered throughout the city of Oshawa, Ontario 🙂

  • Jesus said in Matthew 5:44 to pray for our enemies. Also, we are instructed in 1Timothy 2:2to pray for kings and all those in power,and finally Psalm 122:6 says to pray for peace in Jerusalem; especially now with this war going on. I would also pray that Biden doesn’t turn his back on Israel because God told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you” (Genesis 12:3). And I would pray for God to forgive our nation for our perversion and removing Him from everything and for revival.

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