Praying, which is simply talking and listening to God, is one of the most powerful things we do as followers of Jesus.

Learn About Prayer

While the best way to learn how to pray is simply by praying—alone and with other people (check out a few opportunities below)—there is also a lot to learn about what prayer is and why it matters.

Listen

Listen to some Trinity Grace teaching on prayer:

• Becoming a People of Authority download sermon
• Becoming a People of Prayer download sermon
• Kingdom Prayer (from the Sermon on the Mount) download sermon

Read

Here are a few books on prayer that we have found helpful:

• Prayer, Richard Foster: A great reference on many, many types of prayer
• Intercessory Prayer, Dutch Sheets: Our prayers matter—learning why this is true and how to pray effectively
• Hearing God, Dallas Willard: Learning to recognize God’s voice
• The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift of Prophecy, Jack Deere: Another on learning to recognize God’s voice
• The Divine Hours in three volumes (Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter): Scripture-based liturgical prayers; four prayers each day.

Online Prayer Resources

Both these sites are updated daily:

• Fixed-hour prayer: Based on psalms and scriptures, an online version of Phyllis Tickle’s The Divine Hours
• Daily contemplative prayer at Sacred Space: From the Irish Jesuits, a guided meditation on scripture

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Pray With Us

Before or after any of our worship gatherings, during the week, or at one of our prayer workshops (contact Sue for the next dates): join us in meeting with God!

Sundays

Each of our neighborhood churches has pre-service prayer every Sunday. This is great opportunity to practice praying and also care for our church. All welcome!

• Westside, 9 am
• Eastside, 3:30 pm
• Brooklyn, 3:45 pm
• Chelsea, 5:30 pm

Men’s Prayer, Monday nights, Washington Heights

9pm. Contact Jon for this week’s location.

Thursday mornings, Chelsea

The Highline if the weather’s nice, or inside at someone’s home. Contact Josh for more info.

Wednesday mornings, women only, Columbus Circle

Join several women from our community at 7:30am every Wednesday at the Time Warner Center, to pray for the city, the church and each other. Contact Elizabeth for more info.

Intercessory prayer is spiritual defiance of what is in the way of what God has promised. Intercession visualizes an alternative future to the one apparently fated by the momentum of current forces. Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.Walter Wink