Write your prayers down. In a journal, on a piece of computer paper, in the margins of your Bible, on a sticky note, across a chalkboard, in your notes app. Write down what’s making your heart soar, what’s making your heart sink. Write down what you’re hoping for, what you’re asking God for, what you need. Write down your own selfishness, your own unforgiveness, your own mess. Write down the names of the people, precious and broken, who you’re praying for. Write down your greatest joys and most painful heartbreaks.
So you don’t forget them–write down your prayers.

Because when you pray and pray and pray,and God answers your prayer, there’s a tendency to forget the fire. To forget the difficulty of the middle part–you know, the part between asking and receiving. We don’t remember what it’s like to stand in the middle and wait, patiently or impatiently, for His voice in the dark. We forget that we wondered for days and months whether He heard us, whether He would come through. We chalk it up to luck or good timing when our prayer is answered, and subtract God from the equation.

And when we forget that there was a wait, we forget to pray bigger prayers. Our faith doesn’t build; there’s nothing to build on. Prayers answered but always forgotten don’t add up to an unshakable faith: prayers prayed, waited for, and perfectly answered–and then, remembered–do.

You don’t need to struggle with words when saying your prayers. A lot of us know what we want to pray about but knowing the words to use is a different thing entirely. We believe prayers are a crucial part of your life and so we have compiled these short prayers which could give you a beautiful time in reflection and worship