Some Prayer Resources

I have posted on the Hope Church website some resources which some of you might find helpful in nurturing the discipline of prayer in your life. Each are a bit idiosyncratic, but some of you might find some of these resources helpful. Clicking on the links below will download the files.

1. A simple prayer plan. This was shared by Tim Keller in a class a number of years ago. I modified it slightly, but it is in essence all his. (If anyone from Redeemer sees this and believes I have violated some copyright, please tell me!)

2. General prayer guidelines. These are some thoughts I put together some time ago to help me navigate my own prayer life.

3. A Simple Way to Pray. Martin Luther’s barber once asked Luther how to pray. Whether Master Peter the barber was serious or was simply making talk we may never know, but the result was a 20 page treatise on the matter. The whole is worth reading, and is widely available on the internet. For convenience I’ve uploaded this here.

4. Luther and Prayer. Perhaps Luther’s barber would have preferred a summary of the good Doctor’s helpful comments. That is posted here.

5. The Lord’s Prayer. Luther recommends praying through the Lord’s Prayer. But how do we do that? Luther’s comments are helpful, but so is the exposition of the Lord’s Prayer given by the framers of the Westminster Larger Catechism. This document simply takes their exposition and explodes it into various phrases to help us use it as a guide for prayer.

I hope someone finds these helpful!