How and What to Pray
This is a short guide on how to pray and what to pray for. It is written for the anyone who would like direction on how to pray on their own or with a group.
Let’s be honest. We all need help when it comes to prayer. We wish we prayed more and better. We hope to become people whose prayers are powerful and effective. We want to be a church that communes with God, understands him and enjoys him.
This short guide, written mostly by others but collected and edited by me will hopefully be a means by which we all grow in prayer together.
The first section contains historic recommendations for building habits of prayer (Thanks to Tim Keller who collected these teachings from our theological heroes in his book Prayer).
The second section focuses on each petition of the Lord's Prayer, offering an explanation and teachings from the Westminster and Heidelburg catechisms.
Included in every part of the guide are suggestions on how to practice this on your own or in a small group setting.Thanks to all of you at Resurrection Church who have prayed with me and for me. Thanks to Franky Garcia for editing help.
With hope, Ben Jolliffe