How To Pray To God-
Do You Need To Believe in God?

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And finally on the same subject move to this page to find the following:

7. Can I ask God for help with believing?

8. Persevere even when you feel prayer makes no difference

9. Action Points About Prayer

10. A Short Prayer For You From Katherine T Owen (me!)

Other articles relevant to How to Pray

Other relevant faith articles:

• Prayer for Healing
• What is prayer?
• Why do we pray?
• What is it like to hear God? - a number of people on the spiritual journey give their answer
• What does it mean to communicate with God?
• Why would we say a traditional prayer?
• Can we ask God for whatever we want?

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1. You Can Learn To Pray

When speaking of faith, we tend to think we either have faith or we don’t, we either know how to pray, or we don't. The truth is we can learn how to have faith, and how to pray to God in the same way we can learn to do anything else.

I was asked recently: “Katherine, how do I pray?” 

What a great question.

If you have found this page on a search engine then you have taken a step which is so important in learning anything new. You have asked the question “How?” How can I pray? How can I pray effectively?

When I was ill, I chose to believe that I could learn how to pray to God, and I did.

If I learned how to pray to God, you can learn too. 

2. Do You Need To Believe In God To Pray?

Can I pray if I don't believe in God?

Yes.

You don't need belief in God to pray. In fact, if you don't believe in God but you want to believe in God, prayer is a great place to start.

Here is an example of how to pray if you don't believe in God, but you are willing to have an experience that will change your mind: 

Once you have said this prayer for faith a few times, and if it feels OK for you, then cross out the words "am willing to". It then becomes an affirmation and a stronger prayer to overcome doubt.

Do you feel the difference? 

Do you feel how it is a much stronger prayer for faith?

Say whichever prayer for faith feels right for you. 

3. Setting A Timescale For Learning How To Pray To God

Where the blanks are in the prayer for faith above, you may wish to enter

• what prayers or type of prayer you want to commit to
• a timescale for which to experiment with prayer
• how frequently, you want to commit to sitting in silence (this could be in nature or anywhere)

When the timescale for experiment is up, ask yourself such questions as:

• Am I experiencing any benefit from prayer?
• Do I believe I am learning how to pray to God?
• Am I willing to keep going with prayer for longer?
• Do I want to continue with the same prayers or change some?
• Do I need more support to learn how to pray to God?
• Do I need more support to commit to prayer?

If you are willing to keep going for longer, set yourself another timescale after which you will assess the results of prayer.

When we are learning how to pray to God, it can be easy to give up. Setting ourselves a time period in which to practise prayer can be a useful discipline to keep us going.

Just remember though, if you do not always pray at the times or with the frequency you decided, be gentle on yourself.

You are willing. You are turning up.. at least sometimes. Well done. 

• Move from How To Pray To God to a related article on living with faith and doubt in your journey with prayer
• Return to a List of Prayers on this website

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