Inspirational Prayer

Both Famous and Personal

Whether you stay a moment or visit many times, my prayer is that you are blessed by your visit to this spiritual website.

Contents List

This is a summary page. Please choose the section you want and then click through to find the prayer that calls to you.

Some of you will only want prayers from certain traditions or non religious, spiritual prayers. I have labeled 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! :-)

1. A List of Famous Prayers on a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com
2. Seasonal prayers - Easter, Christmas, New Year
   
3. Prayers for Healing
4. Prayer for support and strength in a time of illness
5. For forgiveness
   
6. Biblical Prayers and Affirmations
7. A List of other spiritual prayers for life - assorted
8. Different forms of Prayer
9. Advice about How to Pray
10. Relevant Faith articles that may be of interest.
    

1. 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.

• Our Father/ The Lord’s prayer (Christian Biblical)
• The Hail Mary (Christian Catholic). Also the origins of the Magnificat. And the Hail Holy Queen prayer.
  

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

• Psalm 91 - as a prayer for protection  (biblical)
  There is another article on protection below.
  
• Psalm 91 - as a prayer for peace of mind (biblical)
• Psalm 91 - as a prayer for strength (biblical)
• My roots go down deep... (bible verse)
  
• Prayer for leaders - (bible verse) this article includes personal prayers for leadership
  

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 - 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.

2. Seasonal prayers

Easter 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. 

New Year blessing

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

3. 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.

Prayers for healing are threaded throughout the pages on Scriptures for Healing. Look for the light blue boxes to find the prayers. They include the following.

• a prayer for healing self worth in time of chronic illness, inspired by the Bible story of Hezekiah.
• a prayer to walk by faith and receive healing from Jesus
• using your God given imagination to hold a vision for HEALTH
  

4. Prayer for support and strength in a time of illness

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

Cardinal John Henry Newman prayer to know your value in a time of illness "I cannot be thrown away".

For bringing to the world or yourself HEALING from corona virus, covid 19

5. Prayers for forgiveness

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

6. 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
• Choosing life (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
• Spiritual strength quotes and prayers - some biblical. Some quotes from and prayers based on A Course In Miracles.
• Quotes for finding spiritual strength in a time of illness

7. A List of other spiritual prayers for life - assorted

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

Pray for sleep - to overcome insomnia. Based on bible verses along with a blessing from me :-) (biblical) (ACIM)

Prayer for protection - adapted from powerful spiritual protection bible quotes. Includes the prayer of St Patrick: "Christ with me..."

Praying to Know God Love, Joy, Peace (interfaith)

Praying to Overcome Resistance to God (A Course In Miracles, ACIM)

Prayer for a couple in trouble with children. (My own words - interfaith)

For finding faith in hard times– I pray that you will experience a resurrection. (biblical)

Prayer for healing loneliness, interwoven into a page on spiritual quotes about loneliness. (Biblical and ACIM)

A possible daily prayer. A bedtime prayer of thanks in which we hand over our joys and sorrows. (My own words - interfaith)

8. Different Forms of Prayer

• Prayer of Agreement - The Power of Joined Minds and praying for others
  
• Is it okay to ask God for something?

• Traditional prayers - a discussion of their value. (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.
  
  

9. Prayer Advice

• What is prayer anyway?
  
• Reasons to Pray - why do we bother?
• How do I pray? For, example, do I need to believe in God to pray?
• Communicating with God

• How Do I Hear God? - A number of views from students of the spiritual book, A Course In Miracles.
• How to use spirituality quotes to align your thoughts with a prayer intention.

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10. 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 for healing. Includes my journey of faith while living with the severe chronic illness ME.
• Faith definition. A discussion of the difference between faith in God and faith in healing.

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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 :-)

God blesses you and guides you.

With the Love we are,

Katherine

Katherine T Owen, webmaster,
Author of Be Loved, Beloved (Kindle)