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A friend wrote with the news that her husband has turned away from the Lord. Here is my prayer for him.

Today, Aug. 6, is being marked as a day of prayer for Iraqi Christians suffering against Islamic State members.

The first day of school can be bittersweet. It means freedom for mom, but it also means another year has come and gone. In this video, the Skitzy Chicks share a prayer for our kids as they head back to school.

Jesus was persistent in prayer. He practiced persistence in His prayer life, and He taught it to His disciples.

Being called to ministry includes a call to pray for those to whom we’re ministering. That’s usually easy to identify when the prayer requests are for temporal basics such as health or finances. But what about spiritual needs?

Prayer is an act of weakness. When we pray we admit to God that we desperately need help. That we’re weak and needy and not in control of all things. That we are not self-sufficient.

I can’t think of a better day than Friday the 13th to start praying for a thankful heart.

If we can trust in God with the mountains, why not give Him our foothills too.

Holiness and intimacy with Christ come by way of prayer and that holiness is attractive.

What the Lord's Prayer teaches us about the structure of our prayers

The Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, has called on the President to issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a "National Day of Prayer."

Lou Zinnanti, lead pastor of Christ the Rock Church Boston, said he's seen a resurgence of prayer as a primary avenue to bring about healing. Gatherings of Christians have not only prayed for bombing victims, health care works, government leaders...

Try praying this prayer for the next three weeks.

My prayer for our nation's media, as delivered at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia this National Day of Prayer 2012.

I’ve always loved Acts 12. It is such a fascinating bit of writing—a little story in three acts, each of which fits so well with the others. I was reflecting on the chapter this morning and thought I’d share a little bit of that.

I've been asked to pray for our media, at a local observance of the National Day of Prayer. May God alone be glorified!

I thought this was so fitting considering the recent quake and resulting tsunami. Psalm 23:4 NIV Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, “Nothing clears the mind like the certain knowledge that you will be shot in the morning."

If the fear of public speaking is the general population’s greatest fear, fear of praying publicly may be its Christian equivalent.

We’ve all heard this type of prayer before. It’s the kind of prayer that doesn’t just sound insincere, it sounds cruel.