Prayer: Famous and Personal,
Devotions and Guidance

My prayer for you. Whether you stay a moment or visit many times, I pray you are blessed by your visit to this spiritual website.

Prayer is one of the simplest and deepest ways of drawing near to God. Whether you are searching for faith, longing for healing, facing a difficult decision, or wanting to cultivate your relationship with God, these pages are here to help you take the next step.

Many people arrive here with one question: How do I begin?
Others have prayed for years and are looking for fresh encouragement, a traditional devotional, or words that express what is already in their hearts.
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, I hope these guides will help you share  your sadness and your joy with God and discover the quiet strength that comes from presence.

This page is the main guide to the prayer section of the website. It brings together the most important resources, from understanding what prayer is and different ways of speaking with God, to finding comfort, protection, forgiveness, healing, and peace in difficult times.

You may be looking for a famous prayer such as the Our Father, Hail Mary, Psalm 23, or Psalm 91. You may be searching for a prayer for sleep, anxiety, illness, a relationship, or to pray for one you love.

Some of you will only want prayers from certain traditions or non religious, spiritual prayers.
Most of the prayers on this website are my own, written out of my personal spiritual journey through illness, healing, and learning to trust God.
Other prayers are based around quotes from the Bible or quotes from the book, A Course In Miracles. Both books are my companions as I walk the spiritual path.
I have labelled them to help you find the ones that are most meaningful to you.
Alternatively, you may choose to set your labels to one side and read them all to see if they surprise you with their power! :-)

From the contents below, choose the section that speaks to your present need. My hope is that this page becomes a place where you can meet with God, find peace, and take one more step on your spiritual journey.

Contents List

Click on your preferred section or just scroll down to see each one in turn.

• The most popular prayers on this website in 2025 - one scroll down.

• Calling out for help with sleep and rest
• Praying to know and receive God's love.
• Various prayers for life
• A List of Famous Prayers on a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com
• For those experiencing war 
• Seasonal prayers - Easter, Christmas, New Year
• Prayers for Healing
• Prayer for support and strength in a time of illness
• For forgiveness
• Biblical Prayers and Affirmations
• Different ways of praying
• Starting or going deeper with learning to pray
• Relevant Faith articles that may be of interest.

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The most popular devotions in 2025

• Peace of mind based on psalm 91
• Protection in hard times and good, based on psalm 91
• Biblical interfaith quotes and prayer
• Come Holy Spirit prayer 
• The Our Father 
• Prayer for forgiveness of self 
• Trusting God for sleep 
• Prayers for finding relaxation and rest 
• Prayer for Housing and making God's your home
• St Paul's prayer to be Rooted in God's love

A List of spiritual prayers for life - assorted

Prayers for rest and sleep

• Prayer and Affirmations for Rest. We are willing to be still and silent - (interfaith)

• Praying for Relaxation - (interfaith)
  helps us to breathe and find peace. Includes an audio.
• Spiritual quotes from ACIM to enter into God's rest 
  Also a Bible quote about rest. Prayers based on these quotes.
  Pray for sleep - to overcome insomnia. Based on bible verses along with a blessing from me :-) (biblical) (ACIM)

Prayers for love

Praying to know God's love.

• Prayer to feel God's love
  
• God Love, Joy, Peace (interfaith)
• Spiritual love in the Bible

Various prayers for life

• Prayer for spiritual acceptance of what is.
• Non duality - praying from a non dual Chrisitan perspective
• Overcoming resistance to the change of including God This article contains many quotes from the book, A Course In Miracles, ACIM.
• Prayer for a couple in trouble with children to ask that they be guided and the children protected from their parent's pain. (My own words - interfaith)
• Prayer for healing loneliness, interwoven into a page on spiritual quotes about loneliness. (Biblical and ACIM)
• A possible daily prayer. 
  The above page includes a bedtime prayer of thanks in which we hand over our joys and sorrows. (My own words - interfaith)
• Prayer at Sheepscombe - a celtic Christian prayer, celebrating God through the natural world.

Famous Prayers

Click through on the links below to read about my personal experience of these famous prayers and (in some cases) my interpretation of or explanation of their meaning.

• The Our Father/ The Lord’s prayer (Christian Biblical)
  Includes an interpretation of the words and meaning.
  

• The Hail Mary (Christian Catholic). Also the origins of the Magnificat. And the Hail Holy Queen prayer.
  

• Prayer to the Holy Spirit (Christian Catholic)
  Invites the Holy Spirit to fill you and guide you
  
• More powerful words to invite the Holy Spirit, based on hymns and bible verses.
  

• Psalm 91. (biblical)
  The words to the psalm from the KJV Bible. 
  Also, a personalised version.
  I invite you to use this psalm as a prayer for protection 
  Scroll down for a link to another article on protection.
  
• Peace of mind inspired by Psalm 91 (biblical)
  Based on Psalm 91, this helps you to ease negative thoughts.
  
• Strength through Psalm 91 (biblical)
  Scroll down for links to other articles to draw on spiritual strength.
  
• My roots go down deep... (bible verse)
  Draws on the powerful words of St Paul for us all to to know the fullness of God's Love.
  
• Prayer for leaders - (bible verse) including the recognition that we are all leaders in our own life.
  

Also among the famous prayers I pray are the following:

• The Serenity Prayer - A Prayer For Acceptance of What Is, A Prayer For Wisdom (interfaith)
• A prayer for someone who has died - for the dead, to pray at the time of death, at anniversaries, or  at any time when you think of them:
  Eternal Rest give unto them...
  (Christian Catholic)

Here are a list of Bible quotes which are interfaith - They let us know that God does not have favourites. These can be used as the basis for Interfaith prayers by Christians and other Faiths.

Prayers relevant to holding a vision for war to stop and peace be restored

Seasonal prayers

Easter prayer:

Christmas prayer

• Prayers for our personal spiritual journeys on the theme of the Christmas verses in the Bible.
• Prayer for those who are alone at Christmas and those who are called to help those who are alone. 
• Alternative Christmas A Course In Miracles prayers. 
  We let the Christ be birthed in us.

New Year prayer

New Year blessing

Includes bible verses for hope for new and good things.
Includes bible quotes for moving from worry to trust.

Prayers for Healing

Go here for a prayer for health and advice about how to pray for healing. This includes tips on how to persevere with your spiritual practice when you feel too ill to pray.

Based on scriptures for healing

Prayers for healing are threaded throughout the pages on Scriptures for Healing. 

They include the following.

• Spiritual Protection Against Illness and Allergy - Bible Quotes
• The Healing Scriptures page includes.
  *   We receive healing from Jesus
       "By his stripes you were healed"
  *   “We walk by faith, not by sight”
  

Prayer for healing terminal illness.

• Click here for
  *   Let go of specialness
  *   Let him who hears say 'Come'.
  
• On the Jesus heals page: overcome disbelief

• a prayer for healing self worth in time of chronic illness, inspired by the Bible story of Hezekiah.
• using your God given imagination to hold a vision for HEALTH
• Protection from allergy, virus or bacteria.
  
• Beautiful healing prayer submitted by a member of the Prayer ME/CFS facebook group.

Prayer for support and strength in a time of illness

• Spiritual strength - quotes more specific to a time of illness.

• Some of the quotes on the following link are biblical. 
  Some are quotes from and prayers based on A Course In Miracles....
  Spiritual strength quotes and prayers.
  Search also the link to Psalm 91 on this page, for another article to claim God's strength in your life.
• Prayer of Surrender and Repentance in a time of illness

Or visit another website for the following:

• a prayer for healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome  (also Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia)
  
• Prayer for healing loneliness in a time of chronic illness, such as ME/CFS. 
• Prayer for family and friends when you live with Myalgic Encephlomyelitis - for those who are not helping, and those who are.
• prayer for healing tinnitus
• The Cardinal John Henry Newman prayer to know your value in a time of illness "I cannot be thrown away".

• Asking for HEALING from corona virus, covid 19

Prayers for forgiveness

• Prayers for self-forgiveness
• Praying for forgiveness of someone else
• Catholic prayer for forgiveness
  

Biblical Prayers and Affirmations

It can be particularly powerful to pray words straight from the Bible.

Many of the famous prayers above originate from bible verses. Here are some more.

• I am blessed and a blessing
• Prosperity scriptures on abundance
• Choose life (all the more so, if there is a time when you feel like you are dying)
• Interfaith quotes from the Bible which speak of God's availability to those of all faiths and none. Prayers included.
  
• Jesus' prayer of surrender in the garden of Gethsemane
• Quotes for finding spiritual strength in a time of illness

Be Loved
Beloved

15 Spiritual Love Poems
God Love Self Love

(by the author of a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com)

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For 14 years, Katherine T Owen was severely disabled with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, unable to walk, with little speech, and with inadequate care.

Katherine's small beautiful collection of poems take the reader with her as she journeys to know both self love and
God's love.

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Dana Taylor, Author of Ever-Flowing Streams: Tapping into Healing Energy

Different ways of praying

• Praying in Agreement with others- The power of joined minds and praying for others
  
• Is it okay to ask God for something? Discover different ways Christians pray.

• Traditional prayers - a discussion of the value of familiar words that have strengthened believers through the centuries. (Includes Psalm 23, a famous prayer - The Lord is My Shepherd Prayer)

• Meditation. In meditation we make time to listen to God.
• Spiritual quotes are a powerful form of prayer.
  Meditating on a short quote can take us into an experience of Presence, and encourage us to listen to God rather than fill the space with our own talking.
  

Starting or going deeper with prayer

• What is prayer? A guide to the meaning and purpose of prayer.
  
• Reasons to Pray - why do we bother? Exploring our motivations, whether noble or out of desperation.
• How do I pray? 
• How to pray to God if you don't believe in God? Practical guidance for beginning and deepening your devotional life.
• Communicating with God
• How Do I Hear God? - A number of views from students of the spiritual book, A Course In Miracles. Some tips for how to hear God's voice
• How to use spirituality quotes to align your thoughts with a prayer intention.

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Faith articles

• Fear and faith are both part of the spiritual journey.
• Faith and healing. I am claiming healing. Why doesn't God heal me now?
• Faith definition. A discussion of the difference between faith in God and faith in healing.
• Faith for healing can include holding a vision for the health you desire. 

Be Loved
Beloved

15 Spiritual Love Poems
God Love Self Love

(by the author of a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com)

For 14 years, Katherine was severely disabled with ME/CFS, unable to walk, with little speech, and with inadequate care.

Katherine's small beautiful collection of poems take the reader with her as she journeys to know both self love and
God's love.

Download FREE software to read the kindle book on your computer.

Click to preview or BUY
the PAPERBACK of
Be Loved Beloved

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Sometimes it can help to pray using someone else's words. It can remind you that you are not alone in the problem you experience and the solution you seek.

It also reminds you that someone somewhere is praying for all God's children, and that includes you.

I hope these inspirational prayers bless you.

Please pray for me too :-)

Poem prayers

I am a spiritual poet.
On this website, I share my poems and have also collated many poems submitted by visitors.
You’ll find that many of the spiritual poems are in themselves an invitation to devotion and awareness of connection with God.

Thank you for reading this article.
And thank you for being here.

With the Love we are,

Katherine

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