Welcome to Praytel.net's Blog

Welcome to praytel.net's blog! We are excited to introduce ourselves to the prayer community. Prayer is a wonderful blessing that is often underutilized. Author Philip Yancey introduces his book on prayer with some statistics he found in his research. A simplistic summary is that everybody sees the importance of prayer and most pray. At the same time, just about everyone is not happy with their personal level of prayer. That is why praytel was founded. Praytel seeks to connect Christians with their desire to pray and make it a reality.

"[Yancey] interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often do you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes — well, maybe seven. Do you find prayer satisfying? Not really. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves." - page 14, Prayer: Does It Make a Difference?

It’s a simple concept. You tell us when to gently interrupt your day with an automated phone call that coaches you to pray. We are still putting together a few of the processes, but we plan to be live in the fall. Until then, we will provide insights we have found from our own personal journey with prayer. We invite you to join us either by subscribing to the blog in a reader or through email.  We will be sure to inform you when the calls go live.