Teach Us to Pray
Over the last year, we have taken a number of very important steps to grow as a family rooted in prayer. God is blessing in each of these areas, and we want to grow even more in 2026. We will have a year-long prayer emphasis called Teach Us to Pray. We will roll out a number of experiences, opportunities and practical tools throughout the year. Each will be targeted to helping Redemption Hill Church and each of us within the church family to grow in our prayer lives.
We know God will bless us and draw us closer to himself as we grow in prayer, so we encourage you and your family to take full advantage of this season and “dive in” with us. Please be praying, even now, that God would truly Teach us to Pray in 2026 and that through this he would enrich our family, bless our lives and glorify his name at RHC.
June
Prayer Practices
June 7 – Augustine
Great are you, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power, and of your wisdom there is no end. And man, being a part of your creation, desires to praise you—man, which bears about with him mortality, the witness of sin, even the witness that you resist the proud—yet man, this part of your creation, desires to praise you. You move us to delight in praising you; for you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Amen.
June 14 – Anselm
Oh God, we pray that we may so know you and love you that we might rejoice in you, and if we are not able in this life to do so fully, that we will make progress day after day until that joy becomes complete. Let the knowledge of you grow in us here, and there let it be complete. Let your love grow in us here and there let it be complete, so that our joy here is great in hope, and our joy there is complete in reality.
Lord, through your Son you command, or rather, you counsel, us to ask, and you promise that we will receive, “that our joy may be full” (John 16:24). We ask, Lord, for what you counsel “through a wonderful counselor” (Isa. 9:6). Let us receive what you promise by your truth, “that our joy may be full” (John 16:24). True God, help us receive, “that our joy may be full” (John 16:24).
In the meantime, let our minds meditate on it. Let our tongues speak of it. Let our hearts love it; let our mouths proclaim it. Let all of us hunger for it, our flesh thirst for it, our whole being long for it, until we “enter into the joy of our Lord” (Matt. 25:21), who is God, triune and one, “blessed forever. Amen” (Rom. 1:25)
June 21 – Wilhelm Loehe
O God, pour out upon us your Holy Spirit—the Spirit of prayer—that we may ever love and desire to pray; being daily free to approach you, with all confidence in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; to bow before you in every time of need, as beloved children, O most beloved Father, you who are truly a Father unto all your children in heaven and on earth.
Grant that we may always lift up unto you holy hands, without fear or doubt, and in full assurance that all our prayers and sighs which come from the heart are truly heard. Grant also that when help delays we shall be patient, not dictating to you either time or measure, but waiting and abiding your own good time; for you have pleasure in them that fear and put their trust in your mercy.
Finally, O God, rule and remind us by your Holy Spirit that we may daily and frequently meditate upon the hour of our death and be momentarily prepared, while we pray sincerely for a blessed departure hence. Amen.
June 28 – John Calvin
Grant, Almighty God, that as you constantly remind us in your word, and have taught us by so many examples, that there is nothing permanent in this world, but that the things which seem the firmest tend to ruin, and instantly fall and of themselves vanish away, when by your breath you shake their strength in which people trust—O grant that we, being really subdued and humbled, may not rely on earthly things, but raise up our hearts and our thoughts to heaven, and there fix the anchor of our hope; and may all our thoughts abide there until at length, when you have led us through our course on earth, we shall be gathered into that celestial kingdom which has been obtained for us by the blood of your only begotten Son. Amen.