Pray More with Print-and-Pray Prayer Prompt Cards

Monica McConkey introduces a product she created to help families form the habit of unceasing prayer by connecting prayer to daily routines.

I’m just trying to make it EASIER for all of us to pray unceasingly, from the heart.

My book Prompt Me to Pray  talks about how we can customize our prompts to pray to fit our unique circumstances, daily routine, habits, and quirks, and now I’ve created a craft kit that can help you implement these habit-forming prayer prompts in your life SO easily!

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I’m thinking that this is one of those subtle-sneaky-Mom initiatives that can get all reading-members of your family praying more! Just place these little prayer prompt cards around your house and they will prompt conversations about prayer habits or become actual prompts to pray! Your loved ones can adapt these short prayers to their own circumstances, daily routines, habits and quirks.

Imagine each member of your family discovering a carefully placed prayer prompt card on the fridge, the bathroom mirror or the inside of the front door at their eye level.

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This is one of those practical prayer prompt ideas that can influence others, even visitors to your home, without you saying a word!

And if it does spark curiosity, and you’re asked about these little prayer prompt cards, you’ve got an opportunity to talk about prayer! You can remind them that prayer can be a simple conversation with God, inviting Him into every task, challenge or blessing of each day! You can tell them about practicing the Presence of God and how much we’ve learned from Brother Lawrence’s humble example.

Also included in the printable PDF file is a template of completely customizable prayer prompt cards to reflect the special, personal intentions, close to our hearts.

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Every day, we face chores, tasks, challenges or pain that we’d rather not experience, but we can offer them up for a special intention, even for the person we are serving by completing the task.

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We can use these prayer prompts to remind us to rely on Jesus when we’re struggling, to focus our prayer on the intentions of our hearts, to be thankful for everything that goes well in our lives, and to recognize our sins and express how sorry we are.

We can take a whole collection of cues, our daily to-do list, or even our inevitable distractions and turn them into prompts to pray.

These prayer prompt cards are physical reminders to pray more often throughout the rhythm of our lives, to recognize God’s Presence along with us at each moment and to pray unceasingly and let this developing prayer habit influence what we do and what we say, and what and how often we pray. We can start this upcoming season of Easter! The 50 days of Easter easily provide us the opportunity to firmly establish the habit of praying short, meaningful prayers in response to every task, blessing or challenge we face throughout the day!

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The Project: Prompt Me to Pray is a practical set of 24 (plus 6 formatted and customizable) Prayer Prompt Cards to be strategically placed around your home, work, car, and school to help us all pray without ceasing (Thessalonians 5:17) from the heart.

Many of the prayers are classic prayers Catholics have been saying for years. Short dart prayers help us to practice the Presence of God and enjoy continuous prayer and conversation with Jesus.

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