Plans
Prayer and worship plans
A plan is not a rule you fail at; it is a shape that stops you sitting there wondering what to say. Pick the shortest one you will genuinely do, and do it for a week.
You do not need an hour and a candle. Five honest minutes before the day takes over will do more than a plan you never keep.
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Be still · 1 min
Phone face down. Breathe. Say: 'God, you are here, and I am listening.' Do not rush past this into requests.
Be still, and know that I am God.
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Read one paragraph · 2 min
One short passage — a psalm, or a few verses of a gospel. Ask one question: what does this show me about God?
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Pray it back · 1 min
Turn what you read into a sentence of thanks and a sentence of asking.
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Hand over the day · 1 min
Name the hardest thing on today's schedule and ask for help with that specific thing.
Do this six days out of seven for a month and it stops being a plan and becomes a habit.
Where this came from
We're not experts — these are the sources we used while researching this page. Read them yourself, keep digging, and hold us to them.
- [1]The Book of Psalms — Blue Letter Bible
Israel's prayer book; the model behind most of the prayers offered here.
- [2]The Book of Common Prayer (1662 and 1979 editions)
Historic collects and forms adapted for the written prayers.
- [3]Didache 8 — the earliest instruction on Christian daily prayer
Source for praying the Lord's Prayer three times a day in the early church.