Christian Prayers for Every Situation

I need words right now

Short prayers you can say in a breath, in a waiting room or in the middle of the night.

Short prayers · Prayers for strength · When you feel hopeless

I am praying for someone else

For a friend, a parent or a child who needs God’s help today.

For a friend · For a sick friend · For your mom · For your children

I am facing illness

For a diagnosis, a surgery or a long recovery, yours or someone else’s.

Prayers for healing · Before surgery · Prayers for cancer

I am anxious or afraid

For racing thoughts, sleepless nights and fear of what comes next.

Prayers for anxiety · Prayers for fear · During a panic attack

I am grieving

For the loss of someone you love and the long days after.

Prayers for the dead · All Souls’ Day · Prayers for comfort

I am new to prayer

No special words are needed. Start with how to talk to God and the prayers Christians have prayed for centuries.

How to pray to God · Well-known Christian prayers · The Serenity Prayer

Prayers for Healing

For illness, surgery, recovery, and the people sitting beside a hospital bed.

Prayers for Strength

For the day you have nothing left to give and still have to keep going.

Prayers for Peace

For a restless mind, a divided home, and a world that will not settle.

Prayers for Prosperity

For work, provision, and trusting God with what you have been given.

Prayers for Family

For your children, your parents, your marriage, and your home.

Popular and Famous Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer, Psalm 23, the Hail Mary, and the Prayer of Saint Francis.

Prayers for Healing

For illness, surgery, recovery, and the people sitting beside a hospital bed.

Prayers for Cancer

For a diagnosis, treatment days, scans, and the family carrying it together.

Prayers for the Sick

For a bedside, a hospital room, or a long illness.

Prayers Before Surgery

For the night before, the operating room, and the surgeons’ hands.

Prayer for a Sick Child

For a parent who would take the illness on if they could.

Prayers for Healing a Friend

For the friend you cannot fix but can carry to God.

Prayers for Caregivers

For strength, patience and rest when you look after someone every day.

Prayers for Health

For good health, a body that keeps going, and thanks for both.

Prayers for Wellness

For body, mind and spirit when you want to stay well.

Miracle Prayers

For the moment only God can change.

Bible Verses for Healing

Healing scriptures to pray, each with a short prayer.

Prayers for the Critically Ill

For someone in the ICU, on a ventilator or in a coma, and the family waiting.

Prayers for Kidney Healing

For kidney disease, dialysis days and the wait for a transplant.

Prayers for Breast Cancer

For a diagnosis, chemo, a mastectomy, stage 4, and for your mom, wife or sister.

Prayers for Anxiety

For worry that will not switch off, with Scripture to hold onto.

Prayer for a Child With Anxiety

For a worried child and the parent praying beside them.

Prayers for Panic Attacks

Short prayers to breathe and pray in the middle of panic.

Prayers for Depression

For the heavy days, when even praying feels hard.

Prayers for Peace

For a restless mind, a divided home, and a world that will not settle.

Prayers for Peace of Mind

For a quiet heart when thoughts keep racing.

Prayers for Fear

For when you are scared and need God close.

Prayers for Anger

For a temper you want to hand over before it does harm.

Prayers for Comfort

For grief, loss and sorrow that words cannot reach.

Prayers for Sleep

For restless nights and a mind that will not settle.

Prayers for Confidence

For courage and a sense of who you are in God.

Prayers for Family

For your children, your parents, your marriage, and your home.

Prayers for Our Children

For their safety, their faith and the people they are becoming.

Prayers for Mom

For her health, her long life, and a mother who has passed.

Prayers for a Husband

For his work, his health, his faith and your marriage.

Prayers for Marriage

For a strong marriage, a hard season, or a relationship being restored.

Prayers for Love

For finding love, keeping it, and loving well.

Prayer for a Future Spouse

For the husband or wife you have not met yet, with a 31-day prayer plan.

Prayers to Love Others

For patience and kindness toward the hard to love.

Prayers for a Friend

For a friend who is struggling, grieving or far away.

Prayers for a Baby

For a pregnancy, a newborn, a baptism and a healthy child.

Prayers for a New Home

For blessing a house and everyone who will live in it.

Prayers for the Dead

For the soul of someone who has died, and eternal rest for them.

All Souls’ Day Prayers

For November 2: short prayers, prayers for parents, and a prayer service at home.

Prayers for Siblings

For your brother and sister, and for siblings who are not speaking.

Prayers for Dad

For his health, strength, long life and happiness, and a father who has passed.

Prayers for My Daughter

For a young or adult daughter, her safety, faith and future.

Prayers for My Son

For his protection, a son who is struggling, and his future.

Prayer for My Wife

For her health, her protection, her hard days and your marriage.

Prayers to Get Pregnant

For trying to conceive, the long wait, fertility treatment and after a miscarriage.

Prayers for Grandchildren

For a sick grandchild, daily protection, a new grandbaby and their faith.

Prayers for Prosperity

For work, provision, and trusting God with what you have been given.

Prayer for Provision

For daily bread, a family’s needs, and trusting God to provide.

Prayers for Financial Help

For bills, debt and the fear that there will not be enough.

Prayers for Financial Blessings

For provision, generosity and wisdom with money.

Prayers for a Job

For the search, the interview, the offer and the first day.

Prayers for Success

For good work done faithfully and results left to God.

Prayers for Success in Business

For owners, teams, customers and honest dealing.

Prayers for Studies and Exams

For focus, memory and calm before an exam.

Prayers for Salvation

For coming to Christ and beginning a life with him.

Prayers for the Salvation of Others

For someone you love who does not yet know God.

Prayers for Forgiveness

For asking God’s mercy, and finding the grace to forgive.

Prayers for Forgiveness of Sins

For confessing sin and receiving God’s pardon.

Prayers for Faith

For a faith that holds when doubt creeps in.

How to Pray to God

A simple guide for anyone who is not sure where to begin.

Prayers of Thanks to God

For giving thanks in good days and hard ones.

Prayer for Forgiveness After Adultery

Repentance after unfaithfulness, and prayers for a betrayed spouse.

Prayers for Baptism

For a baby’s baptism, godparents and baptism anniversaries.

Popular and Famous Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer, Psalm 23, the Hail Mary, and the Prayer of Saint Francis.

Prayer for Today

A prayer to start today with God, whatever it holds.

Short Prayers for Any Situation

Quick prayers for the moments you have only seconds.

Evening Prayers

For ending the day in peace and handing it back to God.

Bedtime Prayers

For children and adults at the close of the day.

Prayers for the Holidays

For the holy days and family gatherings of the year.

Advent Prayers

Advent wreath prayers for each week, the St. Andrew Novena and the O Antiphons.

Thanksgiving Prayers

For the table, the family around it and a grateful heart.

Prayers for Pets

For a sick dog or cat, a lost pet, and the St. Francis prayer for animals.

Morning Prayer

For waking with dread, a rushed morning, praying with children and starting again.

Christmas Prayers

For Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, the dinner table and the people you miss.

Prayers for Strength

For the day you have nothing left to give and still have to keep going.

Prayers for Hope

For when the future looks dark and you need a reason to keep going.

Prayers for Breakthrough

For the situation that has been stuck for too long.

Prayers for Restoration

For asking God to restore what was lost: health, marriage, family or faith.

When Nothing Is Changing

For keeping faith while you wait on God.

Prayers of Encouragement

For lifting someone, or yourself, when spirits are low.

Prayers for Guidance

For a decision you cannot make alone.

Prayers for Discernment

For knowing God’s will between two good paths.

Prayers for Wisdom

For knowledge, understanding and a listening heart.

Prayers for Protection

For your family, your home and the road ahead.

Prayers for Safe Travel

For a journey, a pilgrimage or a loved one on the road.

Prayers for Deliverance

For freedom from what holds you, in Jesus’ name.

Prayers When You Feel Hopeless

Honest prayers for the darkest days, and where to find help.

Prayers for Addiction and Sobriety

For strength in recovery, one day at a time.

Prayer for a Son or Daughter With Addiction

For a parent praying for a child caught in addiction.

The Serenity Prayer

The full Serenity Prayer and how to pray it.

Catholic Prayer Request

Send a Catholic prayer intention to be prayed in Jerusalem.

Catholic Prayers for Healing

Prayers to Jesus, Our Lady and the saints for the sick.

Catholic Prayer for Anxiety

Prayers for worry and fear from the Catholic tradition.

Catholic Prayers for Addiction

Prayers and saints for those fighting addiction.

Act of Contrition

The prayer of sorrow for sin, and when Catholics pray it.

How to Pray the Rosary

The mysteries and prayers of the Rosary, step by step.

Prayers for Communion

Prayers for receiving Holy Communion.

Prayers of the Faithful

Intercessions for Mass, for parishes and for families.

Our Lady of Lourdes Prayer

The prayer for healing, and how to send an intention to Lourdes.

Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

The Leo XIII prayer for protection, and a novena.

St. Jude Prayer

For hopeless cases and desperate situations, with a novena.

Prayers to the Virgin Mary

Hail Mary, Memorare, Hail Holy Queen and Marian novenas.

Prayer to St. Rita

The saint of impossible causes, with a novena.

Prayer to St. Martha

For home, family and hard days, with a novena.

St. Francis of Assisi Prayer

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, and his story.

Padre Pio Prayer

Stay with me, Lord, and prayers to St. Pio for healing.

St. Anthony Prayer

For lost things, for a miracle, and the novena.

Prayer to St. Joseph

For work, family and a peaceful death, with a novena.

Prayer to St. Anne

For mothers, grandmothers and couples hoping for a child.

Prayers to St. Charbel

The Lebanese hermit saint invoked for healing, with a novena.

Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem

Psalm 122 prayed line by line, with prayers for the Christians of the Holy Land.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The church built over Calvary and the tomb of Jesus, where your prayers are placed.

The Chapel of St. Helena

The chapel beneath the Holy Sepulchre, named for the mother of Constantine.