Resources for Prayer
Prayer at its essence is both a listening for God and offering prayers for healing, hope, confession, restoration, justice, and peace. Prayer assumes God is always present and at work in our daily lives. In prayer we slow down into God’s presence. In prayer we offer our hopes, dreams, fears, and need to God.
Prayer Activities at Central
Central Lutheran offers a number of ways to support your prayer life and deeper contemplative spirituality. Every second Sunday, a contemplative prayer group gathers to listen for God. Pastor Peter generally leads this time, grounded in one of the historic contemplative prayer practices.
The Prayer Ministry Team offers a spiritual lending library, prayer shawls, prayer retreats, and seasonal prayer offerings. These seasonal offerings might consist of different prayer stations in the sanctuary, stations like prayers around the font, prayers for the world, visio divina, and a prayer labyrinth.
On the third weekend of the month, prayer team members are available after the 5 p.m. Saturday worship and the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship for healing prayer in the prayer space at the back of the sanctuary.
Ways to Pray
There are many ways to pray. As a way to begin, you can pause to listen for God in 10 possible ways:
- Start where you are
- Be gentle with yourself
- Take time for daily prayer and silence
- Pray the Bible
- Take time to journal
- Celebrate the Sabbath and join worship
- Examine your life in the presence of God
- Practice hospitality
- Find a spiritual guide, companion, or group
- Give thanks
Prayer Resources
This will be a list of resources for prayer that we’ve used in our programming or recommended over the years:
- The Great Search by John Philip Newell
- Prayers of the Cosmos by Neil Douglas-Klotz
- Dancing in the Darkness by Otis Moss III
- Remind Me Again by Joe Davis
- More Coming Soon!