Prayers
Prayers you can read aloud, use as a starting point or adapt with your own words. The original ones were written by our team; traditional prayers carry their source.
Morning
Morning prayerA short prayer to hand over the day before it begins: thanks for rest, a request for direction and courage for whatever comes.Good morning prayerA light prayer to start the day with thanks, good for reading aloud or sending to someone first thing.Prayer before workTo pray on the way in or before opening the laptop: asking for focus, honesty, patience with colleagues and meaning in what you do.Family morning prayerA short prayer to read together before everyone leaves the house, with room to say each person's name.Prayer for a new weekFor Monday morning: closing the week that passed, opening the one beginning and asking for the essentials for the next seven days.
Night
Night prayerFor before sleep: giving thanks for the day, handing over what was left unfinished, asking forgiveness and resting in peace.Prayer for peaceful sleepFor sleepless nights and a restless mind: a slow prayer, made to be repeated until sleep comes.Bedtime prayer for childrenA simple, short prayer for parents to say with their children at bedtime, with easy lines to repeat.Evening prayer of thanksA review of the day in the form of thanks: going back over the hours looking for the good received, before turning off the light.
Family
Prayer for the familyA full prayer for the home: unity, protection, forgiveness among its members and provision for what the family needs.Prayer for my childrenFor parents to pray over children of any age: protection, wisdom, friendships, faith and a good path.Prayer for my marriageTo pray for life as a couple: renewing love, watching our words, getting through crises and keeping God at the center.Prayer for my parentsFor children to pray for their parents: gratitude for what they received, health and peace for them, and healing for what became hard in the relationship.Blessing prayer for the homeFor a new house, a move or simply to dedicate the home: asking God to dwell in every room.
Health
Prayer for healingTo ask for healing for yourself or someone else: with hope, with surrender and with a request for wisdom for those who care.Prayer for a sick personTo pray for someone who is ill — at home, in the hospital or far away — asking for relief, patience and company.Prayer before surgeryFor the eve or the morning of surgery: handing over the fear, praying for the team's hands and for a good recovery.Prayer for mind and heartA prayer for days of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, asking for peace, clarity and courage to seek help when needed.
Work and study
Prayer for workTo pray for a job, for stability or for meaning in the work you already have, honest about the tiredness.Prayer for studiesFor students and test-takers: concentration, memory, discipline and calm before what is still left to learn.Prayer before an examA short prayer for the minutes before an exam, interview or presentation: calm, memory and confidence.Prayer for making a decisionFacing a hard choice — career, a move, a relationship — a prayer asking for clarity, counsel and peace to decide.
Gratitude
Prayer of thanksgivingA prayer of pure thanks, asking for nothing: for life, for people, for what went well and for what God did without our seeing.Grace before mealsThree short prayers to bless the table — one for everyday, one for when there are guests and one for children.Prayer of thanks for an answered prayerWhen a request has been answered — a healing, a job, a reconciliation — a prayer to come back and give thanks, like the leper who returned.
Protection
Prayer for protectionA prayer based on the images of Psalm 91 and Psalm 121, asking for God's keeping over you and yours.Prayer for travelFor before hitting the road, boarding a plane or a bus: protection on the way, care for those who stay and peace on arrival.Prayer of protection for my childrenFor parents who have to let go of their children's hands and place them in bigger hands — at school, on the street, in adult life.Prayer against fearFor when fear arrives uninvited: a prayer to name it, hand it over and remember who is at your side.
Hard days
Prayer for hard daysWhen everything seems to go wrong at once: an honest prayer that does not pretend to be fine and asks for strength only for the next step.Prayer for anxietyA prayer built on Philippians 4:6-7 for the moments when the chest tightens and the mind runs ahead of the day.Prayer for griefFor those who have lost someone: a prayer that makes room for pain, longing and questions, and asks for comfort without hurry.Prayer for strengthWhen your own strength has run out: a prayer based on Isaiah 40 asking for the strength that comes from outside and is renewed.Prayer for lonelinessFor the silent night and the feeling of having no one: a prayer that recalls God's presence and asks for courage to reach out to people.
Special dates
Birthday prayerTo pray for the person whose birthday it is — or for yourself — giving thanks for the year lived and asking for blessing on the one beginning.Christmas prayerFor Christmas Eve dinner or Christmas morning: thanking God for the Child who was born, remembering who is missing from the table and asking for peace on earth, starting at home.New Year prayerFor the turn of the year: closing the year that passed with gratitude and forgiveness, and opening the one beginning with surrender and hope.Easter prayerFor Easter Sunday: celebrating the empty tomb and asking that the resurrection reach what is dead in our own lives.Mother's Day prayerTo thank and bless mothers — those present, those who have passed, those who raised other people's children and those still waiting.Father's Day prayerTo thank God for fathers and ask his blessing on them — and, for those who grew up without a father, a reminder of the Father who does not fail.
Traditional prayers
The Lord's PrayerThe prayer Jesus taught his disciples, in the traditional English form, with the source passage and a note on each petition.Hail MaryThe traditional prayer formed by the words of the angel and of Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke, followed by a request for intercession.The Apostles' CreedThe oldest and most widely shared confession of faith among Christian churches, article by article, with the Bible references for each line.Psalm 23 — The Lord is my shepherdThe most prayed psalm in the world, with the full text in the site's translation and a suggestion for praying it line by line.