This article is excerpted from Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone, now released in paperback. Words and phrases can sometimes arise in our prayer. Not every word or phrase that pops into your head ...

As we step into a new month in this sacred season of Lent today, we are reminded of God’s unfailing promise: He hears and answers prayers. In a world where many question whether their cries reach ...

Because I wrote a book with the title Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? I receive letters and emails from readers who give wrenching accounts of unanswered prayers. A man quit his job at a printing ...

My immediate response was, “Yes, God answers every single one of your prayers!” It’s just that His answer is one of three: yes, no, or wait. When the answer is “yes,” God answers our prayers and His ...

This month we asked readers if their prayers had been answered and what they did if the answer wasn't what they wanted. Here is what you had to say: God calls us to pray as a way to seek him and know ...

How Stormie Omartian turned pain and desperation into a passion for prayer. Stormie Omartian’s books—including The Power of a Praying Wife, The Power of a Praying Woman, and Praying God’s Will for ...

In a Lenten departure from my movie blogging beat, I’d like to share a development in my family’s prayer life that may be of interest to others. For years we have prayed a daily rosary, a practice ...

One of the most spiritually heart rendering questions from believers in the world today is that, “does God still answer prayers?” Who will blame those skeptics when in actual fact a number of them ...

Pope Francis embraces Lidia Maksymowicz, who was sent to the Birkenau concentration camp when she was 3, during his general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican ...