Prayer

Resources to Strengthen Your Prayer Life on National Day of Prayer

Mary Wiley

May 7th

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people to pray for the nation. It was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. Today, millions of Americans across all 50 states will gather in churches, local businesses, the steps of city halls, in schools, neighborhoods, and public gathering places for a day of public prayer for the our country. In one voice, they will lift a single prayer request to God: unity in America.

Looking for resources to strengthen your prayer life? Our B&H team has some great suggestions for you…

Fervent: A Woman’s Battle Pan for Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer by Priscilla Shirer

You have an enemy . . . and he’s dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What’s more, his approach to disrupting your life and discrediting your faith isn’t general or generic, not a one-size-fits-all. It’s specific. Personalized. Targeted. So this book is your chance to strike back. With prayer. With a weapon that really works.


The Battle Plan for Prayer: From Basic Training to Targeted Strategies by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick

The Battle Plan for Prayer begins with prayer’s core purpose, its biblical design, and its impact throughout history. Readers will be guided scripturally through the fundamentals of how effective prayer works, inspired towards a closer, more intimate relationship with God, and shown how to develop specific prayer strategies for each area of life.


Praying God’s Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds by Beth Moore

Beth Moore’s #1 bestselling book (more than one million copies in print) with a beautiful, brand new hardcover! Praying God’s Word is the perennial favorite Scripture-prayer resource designed to help us decisively overcome specific strongholds: pride, idolatry, addiction, loss, depression, unbelief, temptation, and more.


A Parent’s Book of Prayers Day by Day Devotional by Tony Wood

This prayer book unveils the power of prayer to protect, nurture, and guide. It offers parents the comfort, reassurance, and wisdom of God’s promises for them and their child’s life and future. Readers will find encouragement, hope, and the power of prayer for every day of the year. The attractive, padded hardcover makes this a perfect gift of inspiration for any occasion.


The Power of Positive Praying by John Bisagno

If the Son of God prioritized prayer, how more must we? And His prayers were answered as will be ours, if like Him we pray in His Will, in His Word and in Faith. For that’s the power of positive praying.

Answers to Prayer by George Muller (Read and Reflect with the Classics series)

Prayer is vital to the Christian life, and no author of Christian literature has exemplified this more than George Muller. In this work, Answers to Prayer, Muller shows how powerful prayer and God’s provision can be when it is fully relied on. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter help the reader to take the inspiring lessons Muller’s life presents and apply them to their own life.

If you’ve been wanting to get more involved in the work being done by missionaries around the world, Prayers for the Faithful is the answer for you—a complete guide to devoting daily, deliberate prayer into everything that matters most to missionaries: their ministries, their families, their motivations and desires, even their parents and relatives back home.

When We Say Father: Unlocking the Power of the Lord’s Prayer by Adrian Rogers and Steve Rogers

Adrian Roger’s last written manuscript before his passing in 2005, has been edited and brought together by his son Steve, as a final joint work. When We Say Father takes the Lord’s Prayer and breaks it down to its most basic components for readers to easily learn how to pray from the ultimate source, Jesus himself.

The Power of Persistence: Breakthroughs in Your Prayer Life by Michael Catt

The Power of Persistence is Catt’s invitation to a prayer-without-ceasing way of life. Stories from scripture and personal ministry experiences attest to the prophetic and profitable work of prayer. Engaging chapters on prayers of penitence, learning from the Psalmist, praying for children, the lost, and in response to spiritual warfare guide us to a breakthrough level of communication with the God who is eager to hear our cries and accomplish His work through us.


The Power of Prayer and Fasting by Ronnie Floyd

The hand-in-hand spiritual discipline of prayer and fasting is not a gimmick or a spiritual fad, although its neglect in recent decades makes it a new discovery for many Christians. Instead, as author Ronnie Floyd explains, prayer and fasting is a Scripture-ordained act of obedience—a means of humbling ourselves before God, drawing closer to Him, and making room for Him to speak and act in our lives.


Mercy for Today by Jonathan Parnell

Do we just need God’s grace in dark and shameful moments? Are prayers for mercy only for those times when we really mess up? Jonathan Parnell says we need God’s mercy all the time. In fact, contrary to many church cultures, Parnell shows that asking God for mercy should be as regular as asking God for our daily bread.


Peter’s Perfect Prayer Place by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick, illustrated by Daniel Fernandez

Peter is used to seeing his mom pray in her special prayer room, and now you can help him search for his own place to pray—Peter’s perfect prayer place. Is it under his bed? Up in his treehouse? Between the pots and pans? Where can God hear him best? There’s lots of fun as Peter looks and looks, but in the end, he learns that although it’s great to have a special place to be alone with God and pray, God hears you no matter where you are—under, up, or in between!


PrayerWorks: Prayer Training and Strategy for Kids by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick, with Amy Parker, illustrated by Lisa Manuzak

As kids grow, their prayer lives need to grow too—but how? Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick offer a strategy that kids can use to figure out how prayer works and just how powerful it is. Lots of great explanation is combined with fun activities, illustrations, and journaling prompts to get kids thinking and praying.


This Means War: A Strategic Prayer Journal by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick, with Troy Schmidt

The teen years can be tough; don’t try to make it through without one of your most powerful weapons—prayer. A companion book to the movie War Room, this new kind of journal will get you ready for a new kind of prayer life, one that’s strong, growing, and reflects just how powerful prayer is.


Bibleman and the Wish-a-Prayer Machine by Mike Nappa, illustrated by Dennis Edwards

Kids love the Wish-a-Prayer Machine, but why aren’t their prayers being answered? Join Bibleman and his team on a new adventure as they find the villain responsible for the silly prayer requests and teach kids about the true purpose of prayer.


Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, illustrated by Holli Conger

See the pictures, touch the buttons, and hear the words of a favorite childhood prayer—Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep! With six sound buttons and an on/off switch, this delightful sound book will help little ones talk to God before drifting off to sleep.


Great and Small Prayers for Babies, by Pamela Kennedy

See the pictures, touch the buttons, and hear the words of a favorite childhood prayer—Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep! With six sound buttons and an on/off switch, this delightful sound book will help little ones talk to God before drifting off to sleep.


Prayers for Bedtime, by Pamela Kennedy, illustrated by Holli Conger

See the pictures, touch the buttons, and hear the words of a favorite childhood prayer—Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep! With six sound buttons and an on/off switch, this delightful sound book will help little ones talk to God before drifting off to sleep.


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