5 Things to Pray for Your Church

Praying for my church

Rachel has just put together something delightfully simple and useful: taking 21 Bible verses or paragraphs, she has turned each into sets of five short guided intercessions for the church and published it as a little 90-page paperback. The spread of biblical material means there’s a good balanced diet of praise, thanksgiving, confession, and supplication.... continue reading

5 Things to Pray for your Church

If you feel like your prayer life could do with a bit of support, a bit of inspiration or input, then you’ve only got the price of a pint to lose: get this book and give it a go. I’d imagine it would also be great to give away to a church small group, or perhaps to some of the leaders in your church as they consider what it looks like to partner in prayer for the church.... continue reading

“Meh. It's nice, but that's about it.”

It's not that there's anything wrong per-say with this book, but it just felt like par-for-the-course suggestions on a 3 par mini-golf course. If you If you have a poor prayer life and don't know what to pray, this may help you. If you have a deep prayer life already for your church, this will be basic. It just felt nice, but definitely not inspiring or enlightening.

“Excellent resource for corporate prayer”

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.

“Genuine help for praying people”

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.

“Excellent”

Brilliant little book, good content and well designed, I’ve started using it right away.

“Helpful but disempowering of women”

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.

“Love this resource”

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.

“Best resource 2017(the Eden Winner awards)”

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.

“Excellent Resource”

We bought enough copies to give to each adult in our medium-sized church. We started in January 2019, working our way through it a section at a time, using it as a focus for weekly prayer – sometimes through the Sunday services, but mostly in midweek housegroups, and encouraging members of the congregation to use it in personal prayer through the week. It’s already proved to be excellent for these purposes, not only helping direct our prayers for each other in the church in a way that deals with areas we might not otherwise pray for, but – most importantly of all – encouraging us to pray in a way that goes with the grain of Scripture. Very grateful for this excellent resource.

“very useful”

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