Do you ever feel the need to pray but can’t always find the right words? If so, this fresh collection of heart-felt prayers is for you. Encompassing more than 200 topics – from your own personal needs, and the needs of people around you, to the needs and issues facing the whole world – here is a companion you can turn to again and again when something’s on your mind. The book is in four parts. Part One has over 100 prayers for you to pray for yourself at different times in your life; Part Two has prayers you can say for others – or maybe for yourself when the need arises; Part Three covers issues that affect people all over the world; and Part Four has prayers and blessings for the precious times when you just want to give thanks and celebrate the good things in life. Each of the prayers in this collection is like a jewel, freshly cut from the rock of human experience and shaped in a way that helps you to reflect on the light and shade of your own life, and to draw on God’s guidance and strength for the rest of your journey.

Philip Law is Publishing Director for SPCK and Lion Books. His previous books include The One Hour Bible (SPCK, 2018), A Time to Pray: 365 classic prayers to help you through the year (Lion, 2002) and The SPCK Book of Christian Prayer (SPCK/Crossroad, 1995/ 2009). He is also a contributor to the 6th edition of The Lion Handbook to the Bible (Lion, 2025). Lauren Windle is a journalist, presenter, public speaker and author of three books. Her first, Notes On Love: Being Single and Dating in a Marriage Obsessed Church was published in 2021 by SPCK. Her second, Notes On Feminism: Being a Woman in a Church Led by Men came out in March 2024 and was covered by Sky, Sunday Morning Live, The Belfast Telegraph, The Church Times and many more. Her third, an activity and prayer book Drawing As Prayer, will be out in October. On 22 April 2014 Lauren got clean and sober from a cocaine and alcohol addiction and became a Christian five days later. She has a degree in Neuroscience and a master’s in Addiction Studies from the UK’s leading addiction research centre at King’s College London. She has run several charity recovery courses for people struggling with addiction and consults for churches hoping to improve their support of those seeking freedom. In 2018, Lauren gave a TEDx Talk about her personal story of addiction and recovery which has now been viewed more than half a million times. She regularly speaks about her experiences on podcasts, in articles, at conferences, events, churches and schools.