Prayer

Practice in Community

• Prayer is often best explored in the context of community and we cannot encourage you enough to get connected in a group somehow, someway.
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• Ask questions, grow and stumble your way through prayer together!
  
• Join or start a Life Group here at spac.ca/groups.

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Explore Prayer

A few resources for starting out or for revisiting the very heart of prayer.

• How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People book by Pete Greig; also by Greig, How to Hear God
• Pray as you Go App and pray-as-you-go.org
  
• Rule of Life podcast by Practicing the Way
  
• Breath as Prayer devotional book by Jennifer Tucker

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Learn More

Here are a few helpful articles to learn how to pray and what prayer is about.

• Why Should I Pray? Is God Really Listening? It’s common to wonder whether prayer makes any difference or is even worth the effort but people who have a meaningful connection with God through prayer would respond…Yes, it absolutely makes a difference…it’s my lifeline. Learning to prayer is so worth the effort!

• I Don't Know How to Pray... You’re ready to pray but not exactly sure what to do or what should happen. You want to pray but you feel a bit tongue-tied and uncertain. Here’s a simple tool that’s been helpful to many in learning to connect with God in prayer.

• Is There a Right Way or Wrong Way to Pray? To move forward in prayer the question of right and wrong isn’t nearly as helpful as asking -what will move me towards the goal of meaningful connection with God?

• When and where to pray Prayer is an incredible gift! It’s mind-blowing that we’re invited to spend time with the God of the universe. He loves to hear our voice as we pray to Him and He longs to share His heart with us. He promises to give us wisdom and show us good paths leading to the kind of life we’re looking for but a life of meaningful interaction with God takes intention.

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Resources

Depending on where you are in your journey, here are a variety of resources for you where you can learn more about prayer.

Lectio 365 Prayer App - a free app that walks through P.R.A.Y everyday.

Inner Room Prayer App - a prayer list app that equips, enables and inspires you to pray each day. 

• One Minute Pause App developed by John Eldredge

• Centering Prayer App - helps you develop the practice of Silence and Solitude.

• 8 Week Online Course on Prayer - Free

• Books on Prayer - Prayer by Timothy Keller; God in My Everything by Ken Shigematsu; Survival Guide for the Soul by Ken Shigematsu ; God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayers book by Pete Greig Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools book by Tyler Staton

• Download Prayer Resources

Join a Prayer Team

Join a prayer team and intercede for our church, community and world. Connect with our Care Team to sign up for the prayer team and to receive updates.

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