Different Types of Prayers

Different Types of Prayers


I have listed the various types of prayers to enlighten you to what they are. However, as I discussed them the opinions I offer are those of my own and not necessary how they wrote about them although our thoughts are very similar. You may find one or more are overlapping with each other.


The primary categories that seem to make the most sense for us are these:


1. The prayer of Worship and Adoration
2. The prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving
3. The prayer of Confession
4. The prayer of Supplication and Penitence and Petition
5. The prayer of Intercessory Prayer or Praying For Others
6. The prayer of agreement
7. The prayer of consecration or service
8. The prayer of faith or Prevailing Prayer (my favorites)
9. Prayer in the Spirit



1. The prayer of Worship and Adoration
This is a POWERFUL WEAPON. This is the prayer offered when you simply want to eulogize God. The difference between praise and worship like this: praise is about what God has done i.e. God I give thanks to you for giving me iPhone to use, save me, brought me out, put food on my table etc. but worship is about who God is - God even though I don’t have iPhone I will worship you for you are awesome, wonderful, holy, omnipresence, omnipotent etc. Worship is adoration that awakens your inner man and takes you into the very presence of God. What this means is that I will not murmur, complain nor make any petition during this time but everything in me will focus on loving, praising and worshipping God. The word of God says He inhabits the praises of his people. God loves the sound of worship and we were created to praise him.


Such prayers of adoration and praise are commonly found in the Psalms: "I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips" (Psalms 34:1); "I sing praise to you; you, 0 God, are my fortress, my loving God" (Psalms 59:17); "Praise the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord; praise him, you servants of the Lord" (Psalms 135:1). Those with the deepest spirituality are able to offer prayers of praise and adoration in even the more despairing of circumstances.


2. The prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving
A grateful spirit is the soil in which faith, hope, and love grow and flourish. It’s all too easy to take for granted the many blessings we have received and continue to receive each day. Brennan Manning said the mark of those who truly trust God is a spirit of gratitude.


Praise and thanksgiving are powerful weapons to the believer. It destroys the hold of satan and unbelief over our life. Praise and thanksgiving in effect disarm the two most deadly weapons to our Christian walk; namely, unbelief and satanic attacks. These two things can manifest in many different ways. No wonder why the scriptures call praise a two edged sword.


Enter his gates with a song of thanksgiving. Come into his courtyards with a song of praise. Give thanks to him; praise his name. (Psalms 100:4) Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God. The other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly, a violent earthquake shook the foundations of the jail. All the doors immediately flew open, and all the prisoners' chains came loose. (Act 16:25-26) Let godly people triumph in glory. Let them sing for joy on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands to take vengeance on the nations, to punish the people of the world, to put their kings in chains and their leaders in iron shackles, to carry out the judgment that is written against them. This is an honor that belongs to all his godly ones. Hallelujah! (Psalms 149:5-9) Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Whatever happens, give thanks, because it is God's will in Christ Jesus that you do this. Don't put out the Spirit's fire. (1Thessalonians 5:16-19)


3. The prayer of Confession
The prayer of confession may be the most difficult for many people. It is never easy to itemize and confess our sins, shortcomings, or failures and then ask forgiveness. Yet, confession is the path which leads to emotional and spiritual cleansing. The New Testament makes a link between confession and health: "Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed” (James 5:16). The Old Testament cites this benefit which flows from confession: "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (Proverbs 28:13). If offering the prayer of confession is difficult for you, then consider this insight from writer Louis Cassels: "In confession.. we open our lives to the healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are."


4. The prayer of Supplication and Penitence and Petition
This is prayer at its most basic level, that of asking. Prayers of petition are perhaps the most frequent forms of prayer. It was the prayer of a student asking for help with school, the prayer of working people to close business deal or promotions, the prayer of a father for his sick child, or the prayer of a wife concerned over her relationship with her husband. We pray to God because we are in need or a friend is in trouble. The crisis may be major or minor, but we approach God requesting aid.


Of course, there is a clear biblical basis for the prayer of petition. The prophet Isaiah declared, "Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.... I will sustain you and I will rescue you" (Isaiah 46:4). In the New Testament, Jesus stressed the importance of expressing all our needs to God. In John 16:24, Jesus told the disciples, "Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be compete." The apostle James faulted some Christians, saying they did not enjoy God's blessings because they failed to offer the prayer of petition: "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2). The message from such biblical texts is that God wants to hear our concerns. They indicate that God is saying, "Talk to me. Ask me. Tell me exactly what you need and want."


We need to remember that the primary purpose of the prayer of petition is not for God to give us what we are asking for, but rather that through our prayers of petitions our relationship with God is deepened. If our primary focus is on us getting our needs met, we run the high risk of having only a utilitarian relationship with God. We only run to him when we are in trouble. No one, including God, likes to be used in that way. At Mass petitions are read, but petitions can be said anytime or anywhere. Prayer doesn't have to be limited to one place.


5. The prayer of Intercessory Prayer or Praying For Others
What is the difference between the prayer of supplication and intercession?
To intercede means to plead or mediate on behalf of another person. Jesus is interceding for us (Hebrews 7:25) so is the Holy Spirit praying for us and through us as we pray in the spirit. (Romans 8: 26-27).
When we take it upon ourselves to pray earnestly for other people, we enter into the realm of intercession. To enter into intercession we must have a heart that really loves the Lord and cares about the things God cares about.


To intercede means to plead or mediate on behalf of another person. Intercession will involve various degrees of supplication. Intercession is not normally a one-off prayer. It requires persistence (Luke 11:5-8; Luke 18:1-5). These are prayers offered on behalf of others, especially those who suffer and hurt from life's blows. A biblical example of intercessory prayer is that of Moses who prayed for his sister, Miriam, suffering with leprosy. The bible records Moses' concern this way: "So Moses cried out to the Lord, '0 God, please heal her!'" (Numbers 12:14). Miriam was fully healed seven days later.


Our intercessory prayers should occasionally have a global dimension and not be confined to family and friends. Prayers for government and church leaders, prayers for all involved in research for a cure for the diseases that inflict our human family, prayers for all who are suffering from sickness, violence, grief and their caregivers, prayers for those who daily work to alleviate the needs of the poor or more.


A Lesson in Intercession
Parable of the Needy Friend (Luke 11:3-13)
The elements of true intercession are illustrated in this parable told by Jesus. A man received a surprise visit from a friend in the middle of the night. His friend was starving but this man had no food in his house. Notice the elements involved in praying for others:
* Urgent need: The friend was hungry and needed immediate food.
* Willing love: The poor man loved his friend and wanted to supply his need.
* The sense of inability: ‘I have nothing to give!'’
* Faith in asking: ‘But I have a rich friend who will be glad to give.’
* Persistence that prevailed: The poor man met an unexpected obstacle. The rich friend objected to being disturbed at an inconvenient time. But the same love that sent the poor man out at midnight to find bread for his hungry friend would not let him give up. He kept on asking until the rich friend gave what he asked for.
* Certainty of a rich reward: Unlike the rich friend in the parable, God delights to answer prayer. Sometimes He delays the answer to increase our faith or we do not readily recognize the answer. But the door is always opened and the bread given.


6. The prayer of agreement
The prayer of agreement is when two or more people come together and agree with one another and with the Word of God that something specific will be done. People that do not worship God or indeed worship satan, can also stand in agreement and see power released (Genesis 11: 1-9).
God has given power and authority to the Church and when we stand together in unity we can see more of God's power released (Matthew 28: 16-20). Unity is standing together with one purpose, sharing a joint vision and trusting God's Word to be fulfilled. We need to appreciate the power of unity if we are to see God's power released.


7. The prayer of consecration or service
This prayer involves surrendering completely to God's will and service. It is offered by sensitive, responsive Christians. When they see a need, they desire to fulfill it, and when they see a hurt, they work to heal it. History is filled with ordinary women and men who did extraordinary things because they consecrated their lives to God.


This is an old concept and often forgotten in our modern world of Christianity. You seldom hear anyone say consecrate me Oh Lord to do your will. This type of prayer is an urgent and fervent request that says I want to do what you want me to do, I want to desire what you want me to desire, to go where you tell me, to hear your voice clearly and always obey you. Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom will I send? Who will go for us?" I said, "Here I am. Send me!" (Isaiah 6:8). This prayer is one of dedication to the service of the Lord - a plea to make me a yielded vessel fit for your use and for your glory. It is a denial of your flesh, you will, your desires, what you think is right or wrong and seeking the truth of God for your life. Oh, that the Body of Christ would cry out to God in this prayer - then I'm sure we would witness the raw power of God, miracles and wonders untold.


8. The prayer of faith or Prevailing Prayer (my favorites)
The prayer of faith is rooted in our confidence on God's Word. The woman with the issue of blood (Matthew 9) knew that touching Jesus would get her healed. Her faith gave her the strength to press through the crowd. When you are sure that what you are praying for is God's will for you, the prayer of faith can be employed. Unforgiveness (Mark 11: 25) and doubt (James 1: 5-8) are the two greatest hindrances to the prayer of faith. Where the prayer of supplication is seeking God's will, the prayer of faith is knowing God's will, praying it and receiving it from Him.


Is always based on the word of God. You don't have to add "if it be your will" because you know according to his word it is his will. Nothing can be accomplished without faith. There is no need to pray if you don't believe that God will hear, he is able and he will perform it. To pray this type of prayer you must know what the will of God is - that means to search the word of God to see what he says about this situation, what authority are you operating in, do you meet the conditions for this word to be true in your life etc. This type of prayer is relying on (Hebrews 11:1) " Now Faith Is" Apostle Richard D. Henton (Monument of Faith) recently preached a sermon "Now My Faith Is" you must take the word of God and make it personal. Now My faith is bringing to me every righteous request, it is manifesting the promises of God in my life and for those that I bring to the throne of God, my faith causes me to receive the things of God, it is making available to me the promises of God. This type of prayer requires total obedience to (Mark 11:22-23) "and Jesus answering saith unto them, Have Faith In God. (James 5:15) and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. This prayer says to the enemy as Paul said "Sirs I believe God, and may I add that is my final answer.


9. Prayer in the Spirit
This in the most interesting prayer. It said in the Romans, At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we don't know how to pray for what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words. The one who searches our hearts knows what the Spirit has in mind. The Spirit intercedes for God's people the way God wants him to. (Romans 8:26-27) you don’t know what you are praying but you know for sure your spirit in interceding and exhorting you.


This is the challenge in this prayer; to pray in the spirit and to pray in your mind. If I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my mind is not productive. So what does this mean? It means that I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray with my mind. I will sing psalms with my spirit, and I will sing psalms with my mind. (1 Corinthians 14:14-15)


“Hallelujah,” “Thank You,” “Sorry,” “Please,” and “_____.”

IF. Live curious. If you are...you are alive...

If you are, you breath.
If you breath, you talk.
If you talk, you ask.
If you ask, you think.
If you think, you search.
If you search, you experience.
If you experience, you learn.
If you learn, you grow.
If you grow, you wish.
If you wish, you find.
If you find, you doubt.
If you doubt, you question.
If you question, you understand.
If you understand, you know.
If you know, you want to know more...
And if you want to know more, you are alive...

Powerful Secret Of Touching People

I’m Inspire by an evangelism model in the book of Luke 10:5-9

"When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house. "When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.' Ed Silvoso put it out well in his book Prayer Evangelism:

1.)   Bless: Bring peace to them

Speaking peace to people and to the systems that are around us. 
I cannot change what I do not embrace.

2.)   Fellowship: Fellowship with them,

Listening to find out where the pain and brokenness is. 
I cannot fix what I don’t know is broken.

3.)   Minister: Meet their need (Pray for them)

Talking to God about someone else’s problem. 
I connect man’s need with God’s resources.

4.)   Declare: Share with them,

Letting it be known that the kingdom of God is near. 
I confirm that the power and presence of God is “in the neighborhood”.

Story time: Share with you what the LORD has done, As my wife and I collect our laundry we chat with Mr. Phen (Indian) and we ask him is there anything I can pray for you? (Following the evangelism model from Luke 10:5-9) To our surprise he said “I very into Jesus but have not personally know him yet because of his wife.” But we encourage him and ask him to “personally accept Jesus into his life. God love you and your family He will take care of your wife and family.” Praise the Living God he give himself to the LORD that day.

More story: My wife lost her precious camera which has been following her for more than 4 years, last year mission trip. She was looking for it up and down and call people that she can think of to help her to find it. As I writing this email to my surprising, I recall that day before CNY when we buy our new camera, we found “the lost”. Joseph is one of the brother we found in our Treasure Hunt Luke 15:8-10. Is amazing, how beautiful are God plans, as we look hard for the treasure that  precious to us. God also has His precious treasure need us to look for. Luke 15:31-32

Food for thought: 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'

The King Inside The Kid and The Kid Inside The King

Statistics show that 80% of people who commit suicide in mid-life are men. Often they quit and nobody knows they’ve quit. Men are every bit as emotional as women, but have less opportunity to show it. There are shelves upon shelves of women’s magazines, but how many men’s magazines can you name that do not have sexual content. Many men in the middle of their lives do not feel appreciated. They continue in the same routine day after day until one day they decide they can’t take it any longer. Inside every man there is a battle between the king and the kid. Too many of us men spend a large part of our lives looking for the king, but end up acting like a kid. Our community and prisons are filled with would be kings who won’t wait for their turn or don’t want to share or lash out when they can’t get their own way. These are all traits of kids, but there is hope. Joseph was put in prison, but when the Pharaoh sent for him he left the cell, shaved, changed his clothes and put on the mentality of a king (Gen 41 v 14). The aim of Men’s Fellowship is to equip each other for our role as kings. Too many men coming to Christ, having been saved from the bondage of sin, still act as if they are in chains. The kid is still in control.

If we’re honest many of us men have wandered into things, but very few of us have been aimed. One issue facing us at the present time is raising children. You cannot raise children without making mistakes. Young men need to be trained for the battles ahead which come with fatherhood. We see an increase in gang culture where teenagers through lack of direction are inventing causes to fight and looking to gain respect without earning it!

Unfortunately most men are trying to play a role nobody has prepared them for. They have not had a father to show them how to be a dad or a husband. Let’s use David as an example. He was anointed to be king, but had no expertise of how to behave in a palace. God provided a way for him to gain the skills needed for the next chapter of his life (1 Samuel 16 v 21). Nobody wakes up and decides to mess up; we must prepare our men to succeed.

Usually, when we mess up it is the kid in us taking control. The desire of Men’s Fellowship is to stop the kid from killing the king. I encourage all men to come along and share their wisdom and all women to continue to support us with your prayers.

April 18, 2009 - Filed under cogic uk

So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

…You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something…

My second story is about love and loss.

…I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

…I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

…No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

…Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

This is an extraction of the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

Who writes Wikipedia articles?

Wikipedians who can perform a range of roles -- rather than possess a single expertise -- are key to quality articles.

It takes a village of contributors -- adding paragraphs here, inserting references there -- to craft a quality Wikipedia article, according to a new study that identifies the types of contributors who initiate and dominate the process to separate the Wikipedia wheat from chaff.

"What we found was that there are many different people playing many different roles, and they don't always play the same role in every article," said Sudha Ram, management information systems professor at the University of Arizona, who conducted the analysis with graduate student Jun Liu.

Ram and Liu first identified six types of contributor roles for individual articles, along with casual contributors who made four or fewer edits to entries.

They then analyzed the types of contributors involved and their levels of engagement in a set of high-, medium- and low-quality Wikipedia articles.

Entries largely built by "all-round editors," who are active in all angles of writing, editing and linking, garnered the most top-quality ratings. Those composed by "sentence starters" and casual contributors, which generally lack source references, fell toward the opposite end of the spectrum.

Ram largely attributes this division to all-round editors' self-policing habits of not only spotting other contributors' errors, but also their own.

"Cleaning up other people's mistakes is obviously important as well, but self-policing seems to be really important because when you write something, you want to go in and justify it yourself," Ram said.

While certain collaborative patterns predict different levels of quality, the findings don't undermine the importance of copy editors, fact-checkers and other contributor roles in the Wikipedia universe.

"Even if we limit ourselves to this study, one shouldn't conclude that casual users are of no worth, only that high-quality articles tend to be correlated with all-round (editors)," said Joseph Reagle, an adjunct professor at New York University who has written a forthcoming book on Wikipedia. "An implication then for improving the quality of Wikipedia is to help more contributors become well-rounded contributors."

To that end, the University of Arizona study suggests developing wiki software that would guide contributors through article-specific roles, such as writing or copy editing, and prompt them to justify claims with links and references instead of relying as heavily on peer review.

After all, while collaboration is king in the wiki world, it doesn't always guarantee quality results.

"In previous work we've found that having more contributors is associated with higher quality articles only when they coordinate well with each other," said Niki Kittur, a Carnegie Melon University assistant professor who has studied Wikipedia collaboration. "When they don't, adding more contributors doesn't help and can even hurt."

Cristen Conger is a writer for HowStuffWorks.com.

What makes pornography so addictive?

The reason men look at porn is because they are trying to find validation (Do I have what it takes? Am I a MAN?) and take it to the woman. The problem is that women aren't meant to validate us in that way; our fathers were. Eldredge says this: "Why is pornography the number one snare for men? He longs for the beauty, but without his fierce and passionate heart he cannot find her or win her or keep her. Though he is powerfully drawn to the woman, he does not know how to fight for her or even that he is to fight for her. Rather, he finds her mostly a mystery that he knows he cannot solve and so at a soul level he keeps his distance. And privately, secretly, he turns to the imitation. What makes pornography so addictive is that more than anything else in a lost man's life, it makes him FEEL like a man without ever requiring a thing of him. The less a guy feels like a man in the presence of a real woman, the more vulnerable he is to porn."

One reason why a lot of men look at porn is because we don't have a good understanding of what beauty is and God's purpose for the beauty that women are meant to unveil.

I recommend that you read John Eldredge's books "Wild at Heart"