27 Mar Learn How to Pray | Effective Prayers

While the Lord’s Prayer is the perfect prayer for many occasions and tribulations, it is nice to have other prayers to use—if for no other reason than variety is the spice of life. So, in this post we will share some other prayers which we admire and like to say from time to time.

How to Pray When Parting

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields and,
Until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

by Unknown (Irish)

How to Pray to Become Better

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

by Mother Teresa

How to Pray for Serenity

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,

Courage to change the things which should be changed,

and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time,

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right,

If I surrender to Your will, so that I may be reasonably happy in this life,

And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.

by Reinhold Niebuhr

How to Pray & Give Thanks

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food, For love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

We give thanks.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

How to Pray for Guidance

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me.

I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that

I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please you.

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that, if I do this, You will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore I will trust You always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.

by Thomas Merton

Now that you’ve read some wonderful prayers. Challenge your spiritual understanding and recapture your joy by reading The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Life today.