Transform your prayer life with fresh prayer ideas for your friends and family, all taken from the Bible.
Part of the 5 Things series.
We love our friends and family, and we long for God to be working in their lives. But when it comes to praying for them, often we don't quite know what to ask for. Or our requests to God on their behalf feel shallow, repetitive and stuck in a rut.
That's where this little book is designed to help. It will equip you to pray powerful prayers for the people you love—prayers that really change things, because they're based on God's word.
Each spread takes a passage of Scripture and suggests 5 things to pray for a person in your life. Because when we pray in line with God's priorities as found in his word, our prayers are powerful and effective (James 5 v 16)—and that's a truly thrilling prospect.
Use this book in any number of ways: work through it as part of your daily quiet time, or pick it up whenever someone you know is in particular need of prayer.
Praying for the people in your life
1. A Christian parent
2. A wife
3. A husband
4. A baby
5. A school-aged child
6. A teenager
7. An elderly relative
8. A neighbour
9. My colleagues
10. A non-Christian friend
11. A Christian friend
Praying through life's ups and downs
12. A Christian going through a hard time
13. A Christian who is sick
14. A Christian struggling with sin
15. A loved one making a decision
16. A loved one changing jobs or location
17. Praying when someone you love has died trusting in Christ
18. Praying when someone you love has died not trusting in Christ
Seasonal prayers
19. A loved one on their birthday
20. A loved one at Christmas
21. A loved one at Easter time
| Contributors | Rachel Jones |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781784980658 |
| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
This popular series is designed to boost your prayer life by giving you fresh ideas of what to pray for. Each chapter takes a passage of Scripture and looks at how it can influence how we pray for a specific issue. Be excited by how our prayers really can change things when they are based on God’s word.
The Puritan William Gurnall once said: ‘Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed or God’s word turned inside out and formed into an argument and retorted back again upon God by faith.’ It sounds great. But what does it look like in practice? 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love and 5 Things to Pray for Your Church answer that question. They’ll walk you through using God’s word in prayer. And praying God’s word is my number one tip to help people invigorate their prayer life. So read these books and invigorate your prayers.
Five Things is a brilliantly simple but hugely effective means of stimulating your prayer life for church, mission, family and friends. Accessible and attractive, with lots of Scripture to focus prayer, it will be a great tool for churches to help members to pray regularly and creatively
I recommend this series to you on basis of the simple fact that they moved me to pray. They both showed me ways to pray for my church and my loved ones and they kindled in my heart a want to pray. These are simple books, with the modest and eternally profound aim to show how the Bible informs our prayers. Rachel Jones manages the difficult work in withdrawing from the picture and leaving the reader to see how simple it is to align our prayers with the will of our listening Father. These books could well be a cause of great blessing for your church and people you love.
We're working through this book in our mid-week prayer meetings for the second time in five years. It gives excellent direction to pray for significant areas of need in the life of the church. And at the same time, the book helps everyone learn how to use scripture as a basis for their prayers.
A great resource for those wanting to grow in prayer for those they know and love. Relatively small in size but not in substance. The attractive clear formatting makes it a pleasure to use. A very helpful and thoroughly Scriptural resource.
Brilliant little book, good content and well designed, I’ve started using it right away.
It is helpful in that it gives ideas of different things to pray for different people which can help with your prayer life however I find the prayer ideas for wives and husbands very dated and disrespectful. Ideas of prayers for wives include 'strong marriage', 'wise speech' and a 'blessed family life'. Why should we just pray for wives to have a strong marriage and family life and not husbands?! The verses taken for inspiration all mention women or wives however the same cannot be said for the verses that are inspiration for husbands suggesting that somehow only the parts of the bible that are directed towards women are relevant to women. Overall a nice idea but unfortunately perpetuates unhelpful ideas.
So often I find it hard to stay focussed in my prayer life, and I end up just praying circumstantial things for others and myself. This series has really helped me pray big biblical prayers.
The title is slightly misleading as it suggests that there are just 5 things to pray for your church. In fact different bible passages suggest fresh and relevant prayers. i have used it individually and in a group setting.
this little book gives simple guidelines on focusing prayers for your church, it is easy to read and scripture is used to guide the prayers. Very helpful
A useful resource to guide us, as a group, in prayer through a time of change and transition in our church
I love all these prayer books and am able to get down to business with God straight away as these books give such brilliant ideas of what to focus on.
