5 Things to Pray for the People You Love: Prayers That Change Things for Your Friends and Family (5 Things to Pray)

by Rachel Jones

Publisher:

The Good Book Company

, 2016

Overview

We love our friends and family, and we long for God to be working in their lives. But when it comes to praying for them, often we don’t quite know what to ask for. Or our requests to God on their behalf feel shallow, repetitive and stuck in a rut.

That’s where this little book is designed to help. It will equip you to pray powerful prayers for the people you love prayers that really change things, because they’re based on God’s word.

Each spread takes a passage of Scripture and suggests 5 things to pray for a person in your life. Because when we pray in line with God’s priorities as found in his word, our prayers are powerful and effective (James 5:16) and that’s a truly thrilling prospect.

Use this book in any number of ways: work through it as part of your daily quiet time, or pick it up whenever someone you know is in particular need of prayer.

Key Features

• Equips you to pray powerful prayers for the people you love prayers that really change things.
• Takes a passage of Scripture for each spread.
• Suggests 5 things to pray for a person in your life.

Contents

• Praying for the people in your life
• 1. A Christian parent
• 2. A wife
• 3. A husband
• 4. A baby
• 5. A school-aged child
• 6. A teenager
• 7. An elderly relative
• 8. A neighbor
• 9. My colleagues
• 10. A non-Christian friend
• 11. A Christian friend
• Praying through life’s ups and downs
• 12. A Christian going through a hard time
• 13. A Christian who is sick
• 14. A Christian struggling with sin
• 15. A loved one making a decision
• 16. A loved one changing jobs or location
• 17. Praying when someone you love has died trusting in Christ
• 18. Praying when someone you love has died not trusting in Christ
• Seasonal prayers
• 19. A loved one on their birthday
• 20. A loved one at Christmas
• 21. A loved one at Easter time

Praise for 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love

The Puritan William Gurnall once said: ‘Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed or God’s word turned inside out and formed into an argument and retorted back again upon God by faith.’ It sounds great. But what does it look like in practice? 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love and 5 Things to Pray for Your Church answer that question. They’ll walk you through using God’s word in prayer. And praying God’s word is my number one tip to help people invigorate their prayer life. So read these books and invigorate your prayers.

Tim Chester, Crosslands Training; Author of Enjoying God

Five Things is a brilliantly simple but hugely effective means of stimulating your prayer life for church, mission, family and friends. Accessible and attractive, with lots of Scripture to focus prayer, it will be a great tool for churches to help members to pray regularly and creatively.

Trevor Archer, London Director, FIEC, UK

I recommend this series to you on basis of the simple fact that they moved me to pray. They both showed me ways to pray for my church and my loved ones and they kindled in my heart a want to pray. These are simple books, with the modest and eternally profound aim to show how the Bible informs our prayers. Rachel Jones manages the difficult work in withdrawing from the picture and leaving the reader to see how simple it is to align our prayers with the will of our listening Father. These books could well be a cause of great blessing for your church and people you love.

John Hindley, Pastor of BroadGrace Church, Norfolk; author of Serving Without Sinking

Product Details

• Title: 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love: Prayers That Change Things for Your Friends and Family (5 Things to Pray)
• Author: Rachel Jones
• Series: 5 Things to Pray
• Publisher: The Good Book Company
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781910307397, 1910307394
• Resource ID: LLS:THNGSPRYPPLYLV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-29T14:54:24Z

About Rachel Jones

Rachel Jones is the author of A Brief Theology of Periods (Yes, Really), Is This It? and several books in the award-winning Five Things to Pray series. Rachel serves as Vice President (Editorial) at The Good Book Company. She helps teach kids at her church, King’s Church Chessington, in Surrey, UK.