If you find yourself searching for extra “tools” to help you pray in this season of prayer and fasting, here are some practical tips:

(1) Because reading or listening to the news can be very distracting and misleading (and pulls our focus away from God), we can make the “negative” into a prayer is through Intercessors for America. This group emails the Informer about every two (2) days with news headlines, followed by a one or two sentence beautifully written prayer on the subject. We can pray these prayers out loud.

 (2) Secondly, another favorite is Dutch Sheets GH15 - Anne has been reading every day for 5 years.  GH15 has been a spring board for Anne’s prayer life. It is powerful to read slowly and pause at the parts that the Holy Spirit reveals specifically to you. You can pray along with the prayers written at the end.

(3) Lastly and most powerfully - Pray the bible out loud- read it as a prayer – you can try it with the Psalms each morning (or evening).