Apostolic Prayers

Meditate on, pray through, and expand on these apostolic prayers, as you pray for the strengthening and growth of believers

Pray these prayers over yourself, over specific brothers and sisters in the Lord, and over His Church

Why Pray The Apostolic Prayers? These Biblical Prayers Are...

"When I pray... I want to talk about more than me and my need; I want to talk to God about God. I want to talk about what the Scriptures say that He wants to do and is really going to do. I want to ask Him from His Word, to express the things that are in His heart here, in my world, amongst my friends. The New Testament prayers of the apostle Paul and others can restrain us not to talk to God mostly about the deficiencies of His church or our own deficiencies, but to talk to God mostly about God. As we reorient our hearts and lives around God's beauty, God's love and God's definition of success, our prayer lives will follow. Our prayer lives can become reoriented from self-focused and task-focused prayers to God'centered, biblical prayers—prayers we pray with affection and confidence that He enjoys us and our very small, weak reach to know Him." - David Sliker 

“As I spent the last few decades working in a prayer ministry, I discovered the beauty of God- centered, scriptural prayers that ask for help from a place of growing confidence in who God is and what He wants to impart… The benefit of God-centered, scriptural prayers is in their power to move our own hearts, not the heart of God. That is the divine logic of why the prayers of the New Testament are worded in the manner that they are. They are designed to accelerate the movement of our hearts and capture us with the beauty of who God is, what He is like and what He wants to impart to His people. Praying the prayers of Scripture is one of the gifts God has given us to help us. His prayers, His Word and His commands are all for our benefit and help.” - David Sliker

"The major thrust of our prayers should be for a greater release of the ministry of the Holy Spirit on the whole church in our city and for the impartation of positive kingdom virtues such as love, holiness, unity, hope, and peace." - Mike Bickle