Category: Prayer
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A Prayer Strategy
For a long time I struggled with prayer. I read a lot of books and thought a lot about it, but spent little time actually doing it. I have tons of journals from my single years full of prayers I’d written, but as life got busier, I found my prayers slowing down. I knew something…
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Back to School
Where I live, school starts August 1st, and this will be my oldest daughter’s first year of “big school” (she’s starting pre-k). What better way to kick off the first month of school than to bathe it in prayer? Many of you reached out to tell me you liked the previous prayer calendars I created,…
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Christmas Reading and Prayer Calendar
If you used the prayer calendar I created for November, I hope you’ve enjoyed it and it has brought you closer to God! (And if you missed it, you can find it here and use it any month!) For December I have created another calendar that includes alternating days of reading from the Christmas story…
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Breath Prayer
Have you heard of breath prayer? These are typically short, one or two sentence prayers rooted in Scripture that you can focus on and pray as you simply inhale and exhale. To be totally honest, I am not sure where this idea came from originally, or when I first learned about it, but it is…
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The Holy Spirit’s Role in Prayer
Have you ever had a time where you wanted to pray for something, but just didn’t have the words? Or maybe you weren’t sure if the thing you wanted and were praying for was really what God wanted for you. I can think of countless examples in my own life that fit these two scenarios,…
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A Month of Prayer
This past month a did a prayer challenge from Val Marie Paper that helped my prayer life get a little refresh. Her prompts had me praying for different things in different ways, and I want to keep that prayer momentum going! So I created a prayer calendar of my own for the month of November,…
Alexa Bailey 