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“If we do not pray, we will soon not recognize our nation,” says Dave Butts, ...

During the month of May, Moody Radio Network in Chicago hosted a weekly OneCry prayer ...

More than 9,000 prayer leaders, pastors, and ministry leaders from more than 80 nations gathered ...

  Convoy of Hope is planning a highly visible, worldwide prayer event called Pray for Hope ...

  24-7-520 Ten Years of Day and Night Prayer Day and night prayer has been rapidly spreading ...

  Prayer leaders and intercessors have been preparing for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by ...

Ideas and Resources to enhance your prayer life.   Click on any idea to read further.   House of ...

  Pastor Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle in Brooklyn, NY, preached a sermon at a ...

By Deb Strubel Seven years of prayer and planning and an unfinished auditorium floor covered with ...

Trinity Evangelical Missionary Church of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has a unique prayer twist on its ...

By Andrew Wheeler Paul tells us that we don’t know what we should pray for, but ...

By Elaine Helms Does anyone have a prayer request?” This is the way many prayer times ...

  The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much (James 5:16, KJV). Prevailing prayer, or ...

One of the biggest indicators of a praying church is how much prayer is front ...

After editing many lessons of a children’s club program over multiple years, I had grown ...

Discerning the Devil’s Schemes and Staying Alert in Prayer By Dave Butts War is dangerous business. Lives ...

Using the Spiritual Authority Given to Believers By Marcus Warner I grew up in a family that ...

Watching Each Other’s Backs in Spiritually Dark Days By Carol Madison My friend Jean will tell you—no ...

A Bible Study by Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group discussion. ...

A Church without a Plan—and Only a Prayer   By Gordon Meier   “You know that Bible you got ...

Ways to Pray Before, During, and After By Mary Albert Darling When our youngest son was around ...

    Simple Prayers for an Abiding Relationship   By Ginny Kisling   Recently I met with a pastor who shared ...

  With a sense of urgency and by the prompting of God, the National Day of ...

  A unique prayer experience features a tent pitched at the White House Ellipse for 40 ...

Prayers toward “redigging the wells of revival” were the focus of The Borderline Prayer Initiative ...

The United States is in a state of spiritual emergency, and there is only one ...

Throughout history, spiritual awakenings around the world have resulted in the student generation seizing the ...

News Issue 6 News Issue 6… More»» National and Unified Call to Prayer for Elections Multiple ministries rally ...

Believing that the United States is clearly a nation in trouble, diverse leaders from across ...

Prayer First, the national prayer ministry team of the Converge Worldwide movement, makes it a ...

In the midst of busy and stressful days, it can be difficult to incorporate an ...

Many churches are trying to develop teams of intercessors who pray together during the worship ...

Praying Around the World God calls believers to be global Christians, and prayer is the foundational ...

  By Mark S. Mirza A friend of mine recently described a typical men’s prayer gathering as ...

By Andrew Murray Christians need reviving to bring them back to their first love and the ...

I have to admit I waver at times over whether God will bless America with ...

I have never been an overly social person. So the idea of connecting with neighbors ...

The Power of Prayer Evangelism   By Alvin VanderGriend A pastor in California led his family to pray ...

When We Pray and Care, God Opens the Doors to Share By Paul and Jeannie Cedar It ...

Preparing the Way through Prayer Evangelism “When Nick gets up to preach the gospel message, we ...

The Harvest Is Ready and Time Is Wasting By Nick Hall Her name is Michelle. As she ...

Prayer Evangelism By Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group open discussion. If ...

Setting Your Sights on the Eternal Purposes of God   By Sammy Tippit Years ago as I was ...

The Bible’s First Intercessor By Andrew Wheeler Prayer doesn’t always come easily for me, even when I’m ...

Starting Where We Are By Joyce Ellis When I was a young mom, I felt confused about ...

Ideas to Enhance Your Prayer Life   To view specific ideas, simply click on the tiles below. Prayer ...

Here are a few practical, creative ways to involve your whole family (even the smallest ...

The next time your church has any kind of an outreach open to the public, ...

Most pastors recognize that they preach their hearts out on Sunday, only to have many ...

If you have a heart to pray for the world, now you can find, on ...

By Cynthia Hyle Bezek Probably the most common frustration I hear from church prayer leaders goes ...

By Watchman Nee Praise is the highest work carried out by God’s children. David said that ...

I have never been an overly social person. So the idea of connecting with neighbors ...

Prayers of Preparation in Anticipation of Christ’s Return By Bob Bakke Unless you’re living under a rock ...

Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group open discussion. If you use this ...

As a new college graduate a few decades ago, I joined the editorial staff of ...

In Daunting Days, How Will You Answer the Call? By Jacquie Tyre The year was 1727. The ...

Exerting a Positive Force on Current Events By Dave Kubal I remember balancing on a teeter-totter as ...

Crying Out to a God Who Answers By Barbara Ho I was six months pregnant and my ...

If God Speaks, I Don’t Want to Miss Anything! By Cynthia Bezek It used to bother me ...

  When the call went out for Christians to come to Washington, D.C. in early October ...

  “Every person in the U.S. should have the opportunity to experience the love of Christ ...

A movement of youth who are taking to the streets in their cities is spreading—but ...

For nearly 100 years, the Church in America observed a day of united prayer for ...

A Syrian pastor has written a letter outlining the state of the Church in that ...

Millions of Christians around the world united in prayer for the persecuted Church on November ...

In any given city or town, there are most likely people in crisis who would ...

It is common for a church to offer after-service prayer for those who want prayer ...

When I met 11-year-old Emily, the two of us bonded so much that she seemed ...

Aglow International, one of the largest global prayer networks in human history, mobilizes millions of ...

By Kaye Johns The first time I faced praying out loud in a corporate setting, I ...

By Frank Laubach Today few doubt the power of prayer. Millions of people, however, are haunted ...

The Church in the United States has recently experienced (and is experiencing) one of the ...

  The Prayer Potential of the Next Generation By Kim Butts Several years ago, my husband led a ...

A few years ago God spoke something so clearly to my heart that I wrote ...

Welcome Your Children into Your Prayer Closet By Becky Fischer While Linette was driving home one night ...

Amazing Spiritual Capacity that Children Bring to Prayer By Cheri Fuller Faith comes naturally to children—and it’s ...

When my grandsons were preschoolers, my daughter employed several tactics to encourage them to grow ...

  Here are just a few of the many resources designed to train children to pray: Prayer-Saturated ...

Every Prayer Is Precious to God By Sandy Mayle It was a routine choir warm-up. The classic ...

  Sensing God’s Presence By Jonathan Graf As a kid, I used to love to visit my Grandfather ...

Missions specialists acknowledge the mountainous “high places,” connecting Tibet and the northern side of India’s ...

Adult and youth leaders from the international prayer movement gathered in Hong Kong in late ...

As God demonstrated in the life of Saul of Tarsus, anyone can become a great ...

Some 4,224 students from U.S. and Canadian colleges pledged themselves to long-term missionary service at ...

Moody Radio received the 2013 NRB Radio Program of the Year Award at the National ...

In 2002, My Hope began as a ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) ...

As I drove down the highway, coming home from two family funerals, my pastor husband ...

Children need to find their own way in the world. Unfortunately, sometimes they believe that ...

For several years my husband and I have spent about one day a week helping ...

Sites to Help Train Kids as Prayer Warriors This month we are featuring some children’s prayer ...

By Phil Miglioratti I ’ve lost count of how many times an intercessor has spoken to ...

By J. C. Ryle Without controversy there is a vast difference among true Christians. There is ...

Prayer Makes for Good Parishioners One important question on the hearts of most church leadership is, ...

Living in the Upper Room Permeate Your Church with a Culture of Prayer I’m not sure I ...

  A Praying Church Is a Missional Church   By Fred Hartley The church in Antioch may be separated ...

How to Disciple Your Church toward Prayer By Fred Leonard I love the picture in Revelation 4 ...

By Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group open discussion. If you ...

A Bible Study By Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group open discussion. ...

Pastors Share on Developing a Culture of Prayer in a Church Compiled by Prayer Connect “I like ...

Restoring Jesus’ Promise as the Hope for Revival By Brad Bush Most of us have been to ...

    Five Ways to Pray for Your Enemies   By Lisa Bartelt My first job out of college was ...

The National Prayer Committee (NPC) met in Pasadena, CA, in late January 2013 to pray ...

  The hit miniseries The Bible set records on cable television for the History Channel, with ...

The National Day of Prayer (NDOP) observance on May 2 is just the beginning of ...

In 2014 the Coalition forces will pull out of Afghanistan. It is possible that the ...

When Michael Pearson received news that the free medical clinic he managed near downtown Cedar ...

More than a million Cubans have come to Christ in the last ten years. Many ...

God’s Word is great fuel for heartfelt prayer. The combination of faith-filled prayer and Scripture ...

The buildings and ground staff at the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, TN, have great ...

When I taught a prayer seminar in small community in Wisconsin, I enlisted help from ...

Praying for the Hollywood Tribe Twice in the past three years, the National Prayer Committee has ...

By Paul Covert One of our men recently wrote these words, “I wish my writing could ...

Preparing My Heart for the Day By George Müller It has pleased the Lord to teach me ...

Perpetuating Dull Prayer Practices Recently I was leading a prayer meeting at the church in Florida. ...

Theme Articles: Jesus, Man of Prayer: Did He Really Need to Pray by Dave Butts Dangerous Prayers ...

The Prayer Life of Jesus By Carol Madison There are many places in Scripture where I particularly ...

Did He Really Need to Pray? By Dave Butts I will never forget the question, even though ...

Perhaps Not Safe, but Always Good By Lou Shirey In the classic children’s book by C.S. Lewis, ...

Our Great Intercessor Today By Brenda Poinsett “Dad is not doing well. Every minute I have with ...

The Prayer Life of Jesus By Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group ...

An Invitation to Learn, Lean, and Wait By Sandy Mayle More and more, I believe in the ...

Doing Battle on Their Behalf By Kim Butts Author Stormie Omartian, in her book The Power of ...

Essential Factor in Hearing God’s Voice By Isaiah and Ted Kallman A woman in Michigan had just ...

Ideas to Stimulate Prayer Got Prayer Send Out a Wave of Prayer

I was invited to lead a prayer effort for a week of Vacation Bible School—a ...

I posed an idea in a meeting with my ministry colleague Bob Greene (association director ...

  Living Prayer Center: Resources of The Upper Room The Upper Room daily devotional guides that have ...

Don’t Forget Your Own Prayer Life! By Douglas Kamstra In the busyness of praying with people, leading ...

  Reviving Habits of Prayer   By F.B. Meyer Nothing would be better for most of us than a ...

The Gospel Will Spread and Flourish By Jonathan Graf One of my favorite passages of scripture to ...

National Christian leaders from a wide range of ministries joined with the Awakening America Alliance—an ...

PULSE, a movement reaching the millennial generation with a message of hope, hosted the third ...

The National Day of Prayer and Fasting in Australia called for 72 hours of prayer ...

For years Christian leaders have prayed about and discussed the need for a center for ...

  A Movement of God on Ivy League Campuses   By Matt Bennett Everything began changing in our ministry ...

Hope Undaunted: Renewing a Vision for Revival This summer I stopped by city hall and asked ...

Will God Answer Prayers for Another Great Revival?   By Jim Jarman   William MacDonnell is my friend. As ...

An Ancient Pattern for Revival By Dan and Melissa Jarvis If you knew God only wanted you ...

  Praying the Revival Scriptures By Mark D. Partin As one of our Sunday worship services ended and ...

Renewing a Vision for Revival By Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group ...

Seven Benefits of Prayer   By Alvin Vandergriend Something happens when we pray that would not have happened ...

  The Journey of Praying a Prodigal Home   By James Banks “How’s your son?” “He’s OK, thanks. Could be ...

Kenya has been a nation struggling with issues that have tried to divide it, as ...

Earlier this year, Paul Gruber believed God wanted him to sell all of his belongings ...

Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) has been rolling in Whatcom County in Washington—the northern- and western-most ...

An “invitation only” gathering of ministry leaders from the nations of the Middle East will ...

Prayer leaders who specialize in mobilizing children to pray, held a summit in May in ...

I am a grandmother. At 2 a.m. on January 13, Campbell Wayne Dean made his ...

A couple of months ago, a friend was anticipating major surgery. It was a rather ...

Most churches have some form of Scripture reading during a morning worship service. It may ...

Prayer for the Persecuted Church Nearly 70 percent of the world’s population lives in areas with ...

Unique Prayer Needs of the Military By Rebecca Shirey During my husband’s 26-year military career as an ...

Groaning Because of Our Spiritual Condition By C.H. Spurgeon Alas, many of us lack revival, but few ...

God Won’t Break In! This past summer I attended a denomination’s convention. During one of the ...

Ask for the Nations The Critical Role of Prayer in Missions I have never been to India—and ...

Praying with Missionaries Instead of for Them By Steve Hawthorne As a child I often heard church ...

God’s Presence Is the Strategy with Missions By Dave Butts It doesn’t sound exactly like the Great ...

Prayer Fuels Bursts of Missionary Energy By Dan Crawford I’ve often wondered what prompted Jesus’ disciples to ...

Ask for the Nations By Sandra Higley Note: This Bible study is formatted for small group open ...

How to Develop Your Intercessory Muscles   By Lisa Bartelt A couple of years ago, my husband and ...

Does God Invite Our Prayers about Weather? By Rick Shepherd The states of Florida and Georgia desperately ...

Ministry leaders believe the new partnership between The Sentinel Group and Intercessors for America (IFA) ...

Wales is known for a revival in 1904 that resulted in perhaps 100,000 converts to ...

Otto Perez Molina, a retired military officer who has been president of Guatemala since January ...

In a country rocked by upheaval and division, about 1,400 Egyptian children ages 8 to ...

The son of missionaries in Honduras was kidnapped at gunpoint, and ransom demands were made ...

A grassroots movement of 30 black college students representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) ...

Dr. John Stumbo, newly elected president of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, began his term ...

Northern Mexico continues to struggle with crime, violence, and kidnappings, which is why the mayor ...

Dr. Jerry Kirk’s prayer life was profoundly transformed in 1967 when a businessman invited Kirk ...

It’s exactly what I would want—and need—if I were in that situation. I follow a ...

I remember when my pastor and I first tried to introduce prayerwalking to our congregation. ...

WayMakers: Praying Toward Purpose WayMakers is an extraordinary prayer mobilization and missional ministry focused on the ...

By Jonathan Graf What’s a prayer leader to do? There seem to be too many days ...

The Holy Spirit and Missions   By Andrew Murray It has often been remarked that true mission work ...

Why Does Unity Matter? In late August I participated in a prayer conference that was nothing ...

There seems to be much talk about revival among pastors and leaders of denominational and ...

  Help! The Heart Cry of Desperate Prayer I remember where I was standing during the worship ...

A Sign of Spiritual Health and Mature Faith By Cynthia Hyle Bezek Walking in an orchard in ...

When It’s Just You and Jesus By Rick Padgett You and I might be impressed with a ...

  Outsourcing Our Desperation for Connectedness? By Jim Jarman Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. The incessant alarm jolts me ...

The Heart Cry of Desperate Prayer By Sandra Higley My pastor and I met to pray before ...

Can I Really Say That to God? By James Banks “I will not let you go unless ...

  It Might Be Time for a Heart Check By Phil Miglioratti Whenever a particular colleague would call ...

  Prayer, Facebook, and Droids Recently I was sitting at a gate in an airport waiting for ...

Revival and the Power of Praying Together Although it is true that many revivals started in ...

God’s purposes for His people are clearly outlined in Scripture. When we pray according to ...

Do you have a powerful story of answered prayer that you believe can encourage others? ...

  Praying for the Nations in Our Midst   A hundred years ago we sent the missionaries to ...

By Carol Madison Dave and Marilyn Hansen like Prayer Connect magazine so much that they figured ...

Prevailing Prayer: Sob with God By G. Campbell Morgan The only light that we can ever shed ...

  Revival. Renewal. Transformation. Holiness. These words express the vision and goal for the churches in the ...

More than 300 Christians from approximately 40 nations came together in the New York City ...

  A prayer assembly hosted in Larnaca, Cyprus, October 2013, drew 130 people from more than ...

  During the fall of 2013, the RESET Movement visited 27 cities across the U.S., on ...

“When we pray in unity, God moves mightily,” says Kathy Coleman, founder of Mom’s Day ...

It normally takes a lot to move Skúli Barker to tears. But what he witnessed ...

The Power of Praise Including praise in my prayers is not something that comes naturally to ...

Reorient Your Earth-Bound Perspectives   By Joseph Winger “What’s wrong with you? Can’t you see what’s happening? This ...