The Power of Daily Prayer

Do you pray daily? Millions of people across the globe pray on a daily basis for all manner of things—for health, happiness, wealth, success, love, to be heard, to give thanks. Prayer offers an opportunity to connect with a higher power, no matter what your beliefs are. The power of daily prayer is real, and can have a profound impact on your family, your everyday life, and even your mental wellbeing.

In this guide, we’ll discover some amazing things about daily prayer. We’ll discuss how it can help unite your family, how it creates compassion and inspires humility, and much more. Showing daily devotion and discipline by creating a prayer routine is a great way to remind yourself of your place in the bigger picture of the universe and life.

Bringing Families Together

Praying daily with your family members may actually help to bring you closer to them. Prayer can allow you to connect on a spiritual level, and teach everyone to give thanks before a meal, after hard times and the subsequent recovery, etc. Praying together means you’re united under a single cause, and that’s something the modern family needs.

Daily bible meditations with the family can achieve the same effect. Studying scripture together helps everyone understand their faith on a deeper level. Why do you pray? Who listens? Do prayers get answered? These are questions you’ll likely encounter with children and young adults who are new to praying. 

There’s an old saying about praying families staying together. Prayer and worship can act as the sort of spiritual glue that holds everyone together. The best thing about prayer is that it can be done anywhere at any time! Before meals, before bed, in the morning, it doesn’t matter.

Inspiring Humility and Compassion

When you get down on your knees and pray, you are humbling yourself before a higher power. This sort of humility can teach compassion and take you a long way in everyday situations. Humility helps you pause and bring your ego back a bit when you find yourself in situations that test your patience or pride. By praying on a daily basis, you’re constantly reminding your ego that you’re in charge, and you answer only to the higher power to which you pray. Humility is incredibly important, but seemingly not the focus of our attention anymore. Social media has made us vain and self-centered, and that vanity needs a serious tempering at the altar of our faith.

Compassion can stem from humility as well. When you’re humble, you see less of yourself and more of the world around you. You start to truly see other people and empathize with them. This is also important, as empathy and compassion can sometimes be forgotten when we get stuck on our own viewpoints.

Praying daily will help you humble yourself and inspire more compassion in your life. You might be pleasantly surprised by the fruits such a tree will bear for you!

Appreciating What You Have

How often do you practice gratitude for your health, your financial status, your job, or your family and friends? One a month? Once a year? Never? Gratitude is a powerful and humbling emotion, and one that can be achieved when you pray. Thank God for everything you have. Let him know that you see and appreciate his presence in your life.

Psalm 106:1 says: Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.

There are dozens of Psalms and verses in the Bible that reference giving thanks to God for what you have, and many Bible stories are centered around praising God for blessings and gifts. Life itself is a gift, and we mustn’t forget that it can end at any moment. Be grateful for the beauty and wonder that’s all around you.

Devotion and Discipline

Praying daily also helps inspire devotion to God and disciplines your mind to perform a task every day. This level of discipline will reflect in other areas of your life, as well. If you can master one good habit, you can master more. Devotion means taking the time out of your day to kneel down in a quiet place and pray humbly to your higher power. Discipline keeps you kneeling and coming back on a daily basis to do it again.

When’s the last time you truly prayed? Maybe you’ve fallen into bad habits, or you feel you’re not disciplined enough to take up the habit again. You are, though. Anyone can start at any time. You just have to push yourself and want to do better. Ask God to help guide you back to him; he is listening.

Mental Wellbeing

Research shows that prayer might actually be good for mental health. Prayer can make you feel happy, understood, accepted, and loved. It can give you somewhere private to vent your emotions, or to talk about things you simply can’t discuss with anyone else. When you pray in a congregation, you build a strong sense of community which is so important to the human experience.

The Bottom Line

Prayer is good for the soul and the mind. You’ll discipline yourself, inspire compassion and humility in your life, improve your mental health, and so much more. Daily prayer can completely turn our life around, so what are you waiting for? All you have to do is close your eyes and take the first step.