Prayer For Direction In Life

Powerful Prayers for Guidance and Protection [Quotes & Verses]

Prayer For Direction In Life

God is always there for us, even when we doubt and falter. Praying for guidance can help you find your path again and we can help you deliver your prayers to one of the holiest places in the world, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Experience the change that truly powerful prayers can make in your life and allow the Church’s religious order to pray for you, using your chosen prayer. On this page, you’ll find prayers for guidance, which we will personally deliver to the church.

You will receive photos of your prayer request and candle as proof that your prayer was taken to the Church and prayed on your behalf.

We can all use a little extra guidance and those who follow the Lord know that it is best to put your faith in him. Allowing God to guide every step in your life will only result in a better life and one that serves Him. Take the time to go over these prayers and to pray them with all your heart.

God is more than willing to give us a helping hand whenever we need it. All we have to do is ask. It’s the asking that often dissuades people, as they’re not sure if He will hear them or if they should really ask.

Remember that God is immortal and all powerful and He wants you to follow His path, which means he will happily give you some directions and guidance. All you have to do is remain open to the guidance He provides. In some cases, it’s not what you expect or even want, but it is different from anything you anticipated.

In these cases, it’s important to realize that it is God’s will and His plan for you is going forward.

Use these prayers when you really need help and guidance. When you find yourself struggling to make sense of things or if you are in need of a light to show you which way to go. He will always respond.

Lead me in the right path, O Lord, or my enemies will conquer me. Make your way plain for me to follow.
Psalm 5:8

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE AND WISDOM

Lord God, in this moment of distress and uncertainty, I ask for Your wisdom and guidance to shine down on me. Help me to understand what Your plan is for my life and how to make it happen. God, I ask You to give me peace as I move forward in this world. Amen.

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE AND STRENGTH

In the Lord’s Name, I pray for this brother/sister and ask that You, God, guide them in the way they should go.

Do not abandon them in their time of need and aid them as they struggle to do Your will and to follow Your directions. Give him/her a direction to go in and strengthen their resolve in You.

Lord, fill his/her heart with peace and joy and give him/her strength and courage to do Your will. In Your Name we trust, Amen.

PRAYERS FOR GUIDANCE IN DECISION MAKING

Dear God, we come before you today to give thanks for Your everlasting love and to ask for your guidance in this great decision that must be made. Lord, help us to understand what You want in this situation and aid us in executing Your will. Help us realize that this decision is in Your hands, even if we are uncertain. In Your name we trust, Amen.

PRAYER FOR DIRECTION AND CLARITY

O Lord, in this difficult time, I am on my knees before You, asking for your guidance. Wash away the world from my eyes, Lord, and make me Your vessel. Give me a sign that I may know where to go and what to do to fully honor You, God. I ask this of You, as Your humble servant. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION

Dear Father in Heaven, I come to You in my time of need, to beg for Your protection and Your guidance in my life. Please help me see Your hand in this situation and give me peace, even when I am unworthy. O Lord, I need Your protective shield over me and my family and I ask that you give me the sense of calmness as I follow Your path. Amen.

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE AT WORK

Lord Jesus, today we ask that you give our brother/sister the wisdom to know what to do in this difficult work situation.

As he/she continues to follow You, Lord, please give her/him the guidance necessary to make the right decisions that will honor You. As a light in this dark world, he/she is in great need of Your heavenly touch right now.

Thank You for all that You have done for us and given us and we pray that we may pass the light to the next generation. In You we trust, Amen.

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE IN A RELATIONSHIP

Dear God, we come to you with humble and broken hearts, asking for forgiveness and begging for your guidance in our relationship. We wish to serve You, Lord, both in our relationship and outside it.

Please give us the guidance to deal kindly with one another, to always treat each other with love and respect, even as You have treated us with love and respect.

We ask that You give us the patience to put up with each other and the wisdom to guide one another in Your ways. Amen.

PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE IN THE CHURCH

Our Father in Heaven, we ask that you protect this church and every member within it. Whether we are together or far apart, Lord, keep Your healing hand upon us and guide us in Your ways.

As we gather together each week, bless our services and lay Your mighty hands on our pastor, that he might bring Your words to our ears. Thank you, Lord, for all You have done for us.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

VERSES:

I will lead blind Israel down a new path, guiding them along an unfamiliar way. I will brighten the darkness before them and smooth out the road ahead of them. Yes, I will indeed do these things; I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:16

For that is what God is . He is our God forever and ever, and he will guide us until we die.
Psalm 48:14

Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.  
Galatians 5:25

Источник: //www.holylandprayer.com/prayer_for/prayers-for-guidance/

5 Simple Ways to Strengthen Your Prayer Life

Prayer For Direction In Life

  • Christina Patterson
  • 2017May 18

If there is one thing I've learned in my Christian life, it is that prayer is powerful. Through the power of prayer I have seen lives changed, bodies healed, and hearts transformed.

And that was just in my own life! What I love the most about prayer is it doesn't have to be complicated.

The 5 minute prayer at the sink washing dishes can be just as effective as the hour-long prayer in your prayer closet. 

The effectiveness of your prayer does not have to do with rituals, time spent, or big words. Here are 5 ways all of us can become more effective in our prayers.

1) Faith

If we are going to pray about something and then go worry about it, we defeat the entire purpose of prayer. Prayer and faith go hand-in-hand. We really can't pray without faith.

We have faith there is a God to whom we pray, and that He might actually listen to us. But for really effective prayer that goes beyond listing off our requests to God, we need to also follow our prayer up with more faith.

Once we pray about it we need to let the worry go, and trust that whatever we prayed about is safely in God's hands now. 

2) Focus

We are more distracted than ever before. With all manner of entertainment and social connection at the tip of our fingers, we are constantly tempted to lose focus.

We also have 100 things running through our mind at one time.

More than I'd to admit, I've been in prayer and my mind slipped into thoughts about what's going on tomorrow or what I should have said in an earlier conversation with a friend. 

Distractions are everywhere and they are hindering our ability to hear from God. So, how can we stay focused during our prayer time? I to remind myself that all the to-do, obligations and unfinished conversations will be right there waiting for me when my prayer time is over.

I resist the pressure to make something else more important than this time with God. I also sometime leave my electronics in another room. I will use my actual physical Bible instead of my Bible app when spending time with God.

This prevents me from peeking over at my phone to see who just texted me when I'm right in the middle of praying.

3) Schedule Prayer

One major struggle that prevents me from praying is not knowing what exactly to pray about. For this reason, I've devised a prayer schedule. I have designated a certain person or area in my life to pray for on specific days.

So I know on Tuesdays I pray for my son. On Thursdays I pray for my husband.

I don't always follow this schedule and of course if anything else comes up I pray for that too, but if I'm ever at a loss for words it's nice to have a handy prayer schedule I can always go to for direction. 

Prayer schedules also work when we have an abundance of prayer requests. It takes pressure off feeling we need to spend 12 hours praying for everything at once by conveniently breaking up our prayer time.

4) Pray without Ceasing

As helpful as prayer schedule are, we don't need to limit ourselves to them. The Bible tells us to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). We don't have to wait until bedtime or before dinner to pray.

We can pray while driving to work, washing our hair, or walking the dog. One of my favorite places to pray is at my kitchen sink.

When we don't place limits on when we should pray, it becomes a natural rhythm in our lifestyle and we become less ly to skip this powerful discipline. 

5) Start with Worship

As I stated before, effective prayer goes beyond only asking God for what we want. Real change occurs when prayer also focuses on God and what He wants. One of the best ways I've found to do this is through worship.

Before I pray, I love playing worship music and getting my mind and soul ready to commune with God.

Starting prayer with a focus on God and not myself helps me to accomplish one of the most important goals of prayer: realizing God is bigger than all my problems.

I hope these tips help you get the most your prayer time. Let me know, what tips would you add to this list for more effective prayer?

Image Credit: Thinkstock.com/4maksym

Christina Patterson is a wife and stay-at-home mom with a passion to encourage women in the love of Jesus Christ and the truth of God’s Word.

When she is not folding laundry or playing blocks you will find her with her head deep in her Bible or a commentary.

She holds her masters in Theology from Liberty University and is the founder of Beloved Women, a non-profit providing resources and community for women to truly know who they are in Christ: His Beloved. She blogs at belovedwomen.org.

Источник: //www.ibelieve.com/faith/5-simple-ways-to-strengthen-your-prayer-life.html

Ten Ways to Improve Your Prayer Life | Fr. Ed Broom, OMV

Prayer For Direction In Life

June 19, 2018

Prayer is the key to salvation.  St. Augustine says that he who prays well lives well; he who lives well dies well; and to he who dies well then all is well. St.

Alphonsus reiterates the same principle:  “He who prays much will be saved; he who does not pray will be damned; he who prays little places in jeopardy his eternal salvation.

”  The same saint asserted that there are neither strong people nor weak people in the world, but those who know how to pray and those who do not. In other words, prayer is our strength in all times and places.

We would to offer ten words of encouragement to help us on the highway towards heaven through the effort to grow in our prayer life!

1. Conviction or Determination. 

There is no successful person in this world in any enterprise who was not animated by a firm determination to achieve his goal. Super athletes, accomplished musicians, expert teachers, and writers never arrived at perfection by mere wishful thinking but by a firm, tenacious determination to arrive at their goal — come hell or high water.

For this reason, Saint Teresa of Avila, the Doctor of prayer, stated: “We must have a determined determination to never give up prayer.” If we really believed in the depths of our hearts the priceless treasures that flow from prayer, we would make it our aim in life to grow constantly in prayer.

2. Holy Spirit As Teacher

St. Paul says that we do not really know how to pray as we ought but that it is the Holy Spirit who intercedes for us teaching us to say “Abba” Father.  The Holy Spirit is the Interior Master or Teacher. With Mary, the Apostles spent nine days and nights praying and fasting and they were imbued with the power from on high — the Holy Spirit.

Before starting any formal prayer period why not invoke the Person of the Holy Spirit to help you in your weakness. During the course of your prayer beg the presence of the Holy Spirit to enlighten your mind and ignite your heart. He is closer to you than you are aware. If your are in the state of grace, He resides in your heart.

3. Time, Place, Good Will, and Silence. 

As with every art, we learn by practicing. This applies to prayer. To learn how to pray we must have a set time, a good place, good will on our part and silence.

The saying rings true in sports as well as in prayer: “Practice makes perfect.”

4. Penance.  

It might be that our prayer has become insipid, boring, lifeless, anemic and stagnant for many reasons. One possible reason might be a life of sensuality, indulgence, gluttony, or simply living more according to the flesh then to the spirit.

As St. Paul reminds us, the flesh and the spirit are in mutual opposition. Jesus spent forty days and nights praying and fasting.  The Apostles spent nine days and nights praying and fasting. One cannot arrive at any serious mystical life led by the spirit if he has not passed through the ascetical life of self-denial, mortification and penance.

A bird needs two wings to fly; so does the follower of Christ. To soar high in the mystical life the two wings are prayer and penance.

If you have no training in the penitential life, consult a good spiritual director and start with small acts of penance to build up will-power so as to do the more heroic acts of penance! If you have never run before, start with a block and build up to the mile.

5. Spiritual Direction.  

Athletes need coaches; students need teachers; teachers need mentors to learn the art. Equally important, prayer-warriors must have some form of guidance and this is called spiritual direction.

St. Ignatius of Loyola insisted on the spiritual life as being a journey of accompaniment.  St. Teresa of Avila had several saints directing her on her long and painful journey leading to perfection—St. John of the Cross, St Peter of Alcantara, and St. Francis Borgia.

There are many obstacles in the spiritual journey, especially when one pursues a deeper life of prayer; for that reason having a trained spiritual director who knows the traps of the devil, the pitfalls always present, and the dangers that are always present can help us to grow steadily in holiness through a deeper and more authentic prayer life.

6. Prayer and Action

St. Teresa of Avila points out that authentic growth in prayer is proven by growth in holiness and that means by the practice of virtue. Jesus said that we know the tree by the fruits.

wise an authentic life of prayer blossoms forth in the practice of virtues: faith, hope, charity, purity, kindness, service, humility and a constant love for neighbor and the salvation of his immortal soul.

Our Lady is model at all times but especially in the intimate connection between contemplation and action.

In the Annunciation we admire Mary absorbed in prayer; then in the following mystery (in the Visitation) she follows the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to serve her cousin in a mission of love.

In truth we can call Mary a true “Contemplative in action”. Mary we are called to be contemplatives in action.

7. Study & Read About Prayer.  

St. Teresa of Avila would not permit women who could not read to enter into her order. Why? The simple reason was that she knew how much one could learn on many topics, especially on prayer, through solid spiritual reading.

Find good literature on prayer and read! Many helpful ideas come through good spiritual reading. One suggestion: read Part Four of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This is a spiritual masterpiece on prayer.

8. Retreats. 

To go deeper in prayer it’s a good idea to set aside some time for a prolonged period of prayer; this we call a spiritual retreat. One of the most efficacious styles of retreats are Ignatian retreats. It might last a whole month, or eight days, and even a weekend retreat can prove extremely valuable.

Seeing the Apostles overwhelmed with work Jesus exhorted them: “Come apart for a while and rest…” This rest that Jesus mentioned has classically been interpreted as a call to the spiritual retreat!  Look at your calendar for the year and set aside some time. More extended periods of time for prayer allow for greater depth in prayer!

9. Confession and Prayer.

Sometimes prayer proves exceedingly difficult due to a dirty conscience. Jesus said: “Blessed are the pure of heart, they will see God.”(Mt. 5:8) After a good confession the Precious Blood of Jesus washes our souls and consciences clean. Then the interior eye of the soul can see and contemplate the face of God with greater clarity.

10. Our Lady and Prayer. 

We have mentioned the importance of the Holy Spirit to us as our Interior Master. We should also constantly beg Mary to pray for us and to pray with us every time we dedicate time and effort to prayer.

She will never fail us. As Jesus turned water into wine at Cana through Mary’s intercession, so she can help to turn our insipid and flavorless prayer into the sweet wine of devotion.

Mary will never fail you! Call upon her.

Источник: //catholicexchange.com/ten-ways-improve-prayer-life

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