Inspirational Prayers Archives

Join Us in Prayer to End World Hunger

Join OurPrayer and Bread for the World as we come together the week of October 12th and pray to end hunger in the US and around the globe. Submit your prayer request to end world hunger.

When You Don’t Know You Are Praying

By Bob Hostetler2 min read

Pray retrospectively. Each evening, in addition to whatever prayers you say, why not review your day and the prayers you prayed, perhaps without realizing at the time that they were prayers?

How to see others through the eyes of Jesus.

Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus

By julia-attaway2 min read

When an unwanted, unChristian label pops to mind, I link it to a reminder to pray.

A sailboat and lighthouse illutration from a Someone Cares card

Sunshine for the Soul

By Sabra Ciancanelli1 min read

Sometimes in thought we just sail away on sunny, sweet memories that brighten our day.

Worshippers gather to pray down the street from the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.

A Prayer for the Victims of the Charleston Church Shooting

By Ansley Roan1 min read

After the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., a prayer for strength.

4 Ways to Pray Yourself Clean

By Bob Hostetler3 min read

Cultivate a daily habit of confession, a way of washing off all the dirt of sin and failure, and stepping into a different future, free of the guilt and burden of the past.

St. Francis of Assisi who lived a Jesus-like model of love.

“A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis” has been thought to have come from the dazzling mind and heart of a beautiful soul who lived in Assisi back in the 13th century and charged Christendom with a Jesus-like model for love.