6. Pick From a Prayer Jar

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This option is particularly helpful if you are home during the day or have a desk job. Take small pieces of paper and write out names of people, or specific situations to pray for. Put these papers in a jar, or any container and place them on your desk or in an area of your home that you frequent.

Throughout the day, or by the reminder of an alarm, pick a prayer paper out of the jar and spend a minute or two in prayer. What you write on these papers could be anything from specific people in your life, like friends and family, to strangers, like government officials.

The paper could prompt you to pray for your local schools, for those working at and living in local nursing homes, the staff at local hospice centers or health clinics. Your prompts could remind you to pray for local firefighters and police officers. What about your mayor, governor, and state representatives? Pray for them.

This is a great way to get your family or coworkers involved. Invite anyone with access to your prayer jar to add their own prayer requests. This not only gives you specific reminders to pray for those around you, but what a joy to be able to tell someone you picked their prayer request that day and you lifted them up to the Lord.

When put into practice, praying can be the most important moments of your day. These moments often become full of awe and intimacy. You will not only learn more about God but also about yourself and who you are as his child. Prayer is the very breath of the Christian life and should not be neglected.

Just as our prayers are unique, so will how we incorporate them in our daily lives. I encourage you to explore your prayer life, expand your prayer life, and expect great things to come about from it.