Prayer guides

Verses to pray when you don't have the words.

Short, free guides for the prayers people actually pray. Every verse is quoted from the World English Bible, the same text Prayed matches on your phone.

Anxiety

Bible verses for anxiety, and how to actually pray them

Twelve verses for the racing-thoughts kind of night, grouped by what the anxiety is doing to you.

Fear

Bible verses for fear, for the night before

Twelve verses for when you are frightened of something specific, with a prayer to write for each.

Grief

Bible verses for grief, for the weeks after

Fourteen verses for mourning, arranged for the first days, the long middle, and the hope that comes later.

Family

Praying for a sick parent, when you are the one holding it together

Thirteen verses for the hospital corridor, the long diagnosis, and the slow years. For the child who has become the caregiver.

Guidance

Bible verses for a hard decision, and a way to pray one through

Fourteen verses on guidance, arranged as a way of praying through a decision over weeks: asking, listening, choosing.

Marriage

Praying for your marriage, when it is harder than it used to be

Fifteen verses for a marriage in a hard season: soften my heart, help us forgive, hold us together.

Family

Praying for your children, at every age including the ones who are far away

Fourteen verses for a parent's prayers: the small years, the teaching years, and the child who has wandered.

Gratitude

Bible verses of gratitude, and how to keep a record that lasts

Thirteen verses on giving thanks: the ordinary morning, the answered prayer, and the hard season.

Practice

How to keep a prayer journal you will still be using in a year

The four habits that make a prayer journal last, and the verses that explain why each one matters.

Loneliness

Bible verses for loneliness, for the evenings that are too quiet

Fifteen verses for being by yourself, for being left, and for being lonely in a room full of people.

Depression

Bible verses for depression, for the mornings you cannot get up

Fifteen verses for the worst mornings, the long grey middle, and the days a little of it lifts.

Strength

Bible verses for strength, for when you have run out of your own

Seventeen verses for the end of your reserves, for the long carry, and for where the strength is actually coming from.

Waiting

Bible verses for waiting, when nothing is happening yet

Seventeen verses for an open-ended wait, for an answer that is late, and for what waiting is actually for.

Rest

Bible verses for sleep and rest, for the nights you cannot switch off

Seventeen verses for the nights you lie awake, the stretch where you are too tired to stop, and a peace that does not wait for things to calm down.

Provision

Bible verses for money worry, for the week the numbers do not work

Seventeen verses for the month that does not reach, the night you cannot stop running the sums, and what to do with what you do have.

Work

Bible verses for a job search, and for the work you already have

Seventeen verses for the months of applying with nothing coming back, for the work you still have to do meanwhile, and for the decision about which way to go.

Forgiveness

Bible verses for forgiving someone, when you do not want to yet

Seventeen verses for the week it happened, for the forgiveness that keeps coming back, and for the person who is never going to apologise.

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