Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach

Teach Us to Pray

The Alliance is pleased to offer these free, God-glorifying resources as an encouragement for you to use and share with your family and friends. 

John Bunyan on Prayer

Reading John Bunyan’s A Discourse Touching Prayer is a real pleasure, and not only because it is the first such work I have ever read that includes the phrase, “Therefore give me leave a little to reason with thee, thou poor, blind, ignorant sot.” This treatise, also known as I Will Pray with the Spirit, was composed while Bunyan was imprisoned in 1663. It is an exposition of the Apostle Paul’s statement that “I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also”. (1 Corinthians 14:15 KJV) It contains some of Bunyan’s clearest teachings on prayer…

Read more on reformation21 at Meet the Puritans. (Note this link no longer works???)

Here is another link to A Discourse Touching Prayer – I Will Pray with the Spirit and with the Understanding Also

Here is the Link to another booklet, Prayer by John Bunyan, here you can read it online or download it in various formats, for free.