Prayer is an absolute essential of every congregation’s life and witness. However, long standing patterns of organising and gathering to pray together are proving challenging to sustain. One of the impacts of this is that new believers have never had the opportunity to find their voice in prayer, while more established followers of Jesus may have lost their confidence in praying with others.
Finding our voice in prayer is a resource that can be used by congregations to help re-establish prayerfulness.
In addition, video stories of how congregations are experimenting in fresh ways of engaging members of the congregation in prayer can be downloaded below to fire the imagination.
From time to time new material on this theme will be added to this page and shared via PCI social media.
Pricing and Orders:
The Finding Our Voice in Prayer resources prices are:
- Participant guide - £3.50 per copy (or euro equivalent) including postage and packaging
- Leader’s guide - £3.50 per copy (or euro equivalent) including postage and packaging
To order this resource, please contact the Congregational Life and Witness office by either emailing clw@presbyterianireland.org or by telephoning +44 (0)28 9041 7246.
Finding Our Voice in Prayer
Prayer is one of the deepest joys of the Christian life. What an amazing gift to know that the God whose greatness and glory is beyond our wildest imagination listens to us every time we pray. He loves to hear our voice.
Prayer is also a big deal.
As followers of Jesus, prayer is as vital to our everyday existence as eating, drinking, sleeping, and even breathing. Prayer should be the fuel in the engine of everything that happens in our churches. We know we need to pray.
And yet for many of us, prayer feels hard. We might ask ourselves questions like:
- When do we pray?
- What do we pray?
- How do we pray?
And at other times we have perhaps felt all kinds of insecurities hindering our ability to pray:
- “I’m not an expert.”
- “I’m not eloquent.”
- “I’m not confident.”
- “I could never pray like them.”
Finding Our Voice in Prayer is a practical, step-by-step guide created to help you and others in your church family find and gain confidence in using your voice in prayer.
Through six beautifully illustrated and interactive sessions:
- Teach Us to Pray
- Wow!
- Thank You
- Sorry
- Ask
- Help
this small group friendly resource will help you find joy – and overcome fear – in your everyday prayer life.
Each Finding Our Voice in Prayer session will take approximately one hour to work through, and will follow the same simple pattern:
- Enter in – A simple introduction to set the scene and stimulate discussion;
- Encounter – A short Bible reading and reflection which addresses the session’s theme;
- Explore – Discussion questions designed to help you react, reflect, and respond;
- Engage – One specific practice you can try as a group to help you all pray out loud;
- Every day – Some additional activities that will help you keep going and growing in prayer.
To find out more and to order the Finding Our Voice in Prayer resource please email: clw@presbyterianireland.org.