About Find My Prayer
Find My Prayer exists for the moment when you want to pray and cannot find the words. Instead of asking you to know the name of a prayer, it lets you search by what you are actually carrying — anxiety, grief, forgiveness, healing, protection, thanksgiving — and gives you the full text of prayers that fit.
How prayers are chosen
Every prayer in the library has to clear the same bar before it is added:
- Christian and shared. Prayers come from the main streams of historic Christianity — Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant and the wider tradition they hold in common. Nothing from fringe or splinter groups is included, and prayers are never tagged or sorted by denomination. This site is meant to unite Christians, not divide them.
- Verified wording. Each prayer is checked against published sources, and the most commonly used version of the text is the one that appears here.
- A documented history. Every prayer carries an "About the prayer" note explaining where it came from, who wrote or popularised it, and how it has been used.
- No duplicates. Near-identical texts are merged, unless they serve a genuinely different purpose or form, such as a novena or a chaplet.
Prayers from the community
The community section is separate from the main library. Anyone can post an original prayer there, and anyone can read, search, like and save what others have written. Community prayers are not held to the historical sourcing standard above, and they are never mixed into the main library. Anything flagged is reviewed and can be removed.
Suggesting a prayer
If a well-known prayer is missing, you can suggest it for the library. Suggestions are read by hand, checked against the standard above, and added when they qualify.
Who runs this
Find My Prayer is built and maintained by Return to Faith Ministries. It is free to use, and it always will be. If you find an error in a prayer's text or history, please send it through the suggestion page so it can be corrected.