On today's episode of Renew Your Mind, Pastor Paul Gruenberg, Youth & Family Director Jeremy Touroo and moderator Dana Hall continue discussing the power of prayer.  The "25 Types of Prayer" give us a foundation for what to pray and how to pray.  Listed below are the types of prayer from justdisciple.com discussed in today's episode.  Thanks for listening and we hope this discussion helps grow your walk with Christ!

https://justdisciple.com/prayer-method/

1. ACTS (includes confessional prayer)

a. Prayer for Adoration/Blessing

b. Prayer of Contrition/Repentance/Confession

c. Prayer of Thanksgiving/Gratitude

d. Prayer of Supplication/Petition/Intercession (explain what these words mean)

Or PRAY

a. Praise – Praising God for who he is

b. Repent – humbly acknowledging your sin before God

c. Ask – Asking God to provide for your needs or needs of others

d. Yield – an act of submission to his will in your life

2. Personalizing Scripture – insert yourself or someone else into its context

3. Corporate Prayer – coming together to pray as a group (usually has a purpose)

4. Prayer journaling/prompts

5. Prayer thru song & worship – praying the lyrics or pray while you worship to that song

6. Prayer Walks – praying over a specific location

7. Praying the Psalms – select a Psalm to communicate your thoughts

8. Praying the Scriptures – similar to above but with a larger pool to select from

9. Intercessory Prayer – commitment to fight spiritual battles in prayers & inviting God in

to help

10. The Lord’s Prayer

11. Silent Prayer – conversation with God and conversations go both ways

12. Fasting – prayer is usually part of fasting as one gives up the time it takes to eat &

prays instead

13. Fixed-Hour Prayer – set specific times to pray each day, make God that center of your

schedule

14. Inner-Healing Prayer – until you bring your wounds to God, you will never experience

true healing

15. Listening Prayer – focus on hearing what God has to say to you

16. Liturgical Prayer – pray someone else’s words over yourself vs. using your own words

17. Prayer of Lament – expression of sorrow, anger, suffering, frustration to God.

18. Visio Divina - similar to praying with icons but on a broader scale. Praying with eyes

buy using variety of artwork pieces as inspiration to prayer

19. Centering Prayer – meditative, sit in the presence of God and allow him to be the

center of everything in your life

20. Contemplative Prayer – similar to above but focused more on abiding, be with

Jesus/God.

21. Conversational Prayer – unique form of corporate prayer in which a group takes turns

praying beginning with a focus on a specific topic

22. Prayer Partners – share passion and accountability between 2 people

23. Prayer of Recollection – focused on laying aside distraction to focus on God

24. Welcoming Prayer – prayer that invites God into every area of your life

25. Praying with Icons – prevalent in historical churches but not used much any more.

Many historical churches had painting on walls called icons which were representative

of different theological principles. Congregation would think on those paintings as

they prayed and use them as a means to better understand God.