Changing The Way We Pray
I have tried many different ways to track prayer requests and who I need to pray for. I have kept a hand-written prayer journal, an excel spreadsheet, an Evernote note, and shamefully even just tried to keep it all in my head. But I have never quite found the perfect solution.
Well, there is a new free app on the market promising to deliver a new way to pray – the Ora App.
I recently downloaded it, and I’m very pleased with what I have found.
Ora is like a social network for prayer. You create a profile and instead of posting a status or tweeting, you post prayer requests.
You can invite your friends to join, and divide them into groups. So you can get your small group together, a group of pastors you to pray for, or even a group for your entire church.
Once a prayer is posted, you can comment on prayer requests and swipe the request to let them know that you have prayed for it.
You can also mark your prayers as answered and keep track of God’s faithfulness.
Another cool feature is that you can also set an alarm to remind you to pray every day at a specific time.
So far I am loving the concept of this app. It is still new, so we need to spread the word about it and invite the people we would like to pray for to join. However, once this catches on I plan on making it a part of my morning ritual. Drink coffee. Read the Bible. Then open Ora and pray for my friends, family and fellow pastors.
I am already thinking of a hundred different ways to implement this in ministry to help emphasize the importance of prayer.
So check it out. It’s free!
Like Facebook and Twitter changed the way we interact and stay in touch with friends online. Ora really could change the way we pray and get prayer requests.
