How to Pray Archives

4 Ways to Pray With Excitement

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler points out 4 ways to pray with excitement, including dancing!

How to pray helpless and receive mercy and grace.

Pray Your Helplessness

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler urges us to “pray helpless,” to own our desperation and receive God’s mercy and grace.

Pray the Seven Words of Jesus from the Cross

By Bob Hostetler4 min read

On Good Friday, Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler offers a way to pray through the last 7 words of Jesus on the cross.

How to Talk to God

By Elizabeth Peale Allen3 min read

The ABCs of having a meaningful and productive conversation with God.

8 Ways to Pray With Your Body

By Bob Hostetler4 min read

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler offers 8 ways you can throw your body into your praying, literally.

Pray with Your Favorite Foods

By Bob Hostetler2 min read

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler loves to eat, and he loves to pray. Here’s how he connects the two.

How to pray according to your values. And figuring out what those values are.

Pray Your Values

By Bob Hostetler2 min read

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler urges us to pray our values, to figure out what’s most important to us and to God in a given situation.

How chanting can take your prayers in a new direction.

5 Ways Chanting Can Help You Pray

By Bob Hostetler3 min read

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler finds that chanting has given new life to his prayers.

An inspiring prayer from our first president and founding father, George Washington.

6 Ways to Pray Like George Washington

By Bob Hostetler4 min read

Guideposts blogger Bob Hostetler draws inspiration from a powerful prayer attributed to our first president and founding father, George Washington.

Guideposts: An inspiring prayer for Lent

7 Lenten Prayers to Strengthen Your Faith

By Brett Leveridge1 min read

We offer these prayers to inspire you along what Guideposts executive editor Rick Hamlin has described as “your own Lenten journey of prayer through the wilderness of this world, leading to the glorious message of new life.” May they deepen your connection to Him in this holy season.

Prayers for Your Finances

By Sabra Ciancanelli2 min read

Here are prayers for financial healing, blessings, employment and prosperity. We hope you’ll be blessed with His abundance and direction with these prayers for finances.