5 Best Prayer Sermon Series

January 27, 2025

One of the best things we can do for the people in our church family is to equip them to pray. If we want more people to be connected to God in their daily lives, prayer is pivotal. To help you out with planning for a prayer sermon series, we've compiled five of our favorite prayer sermon series. The first two are full sermon series packages with everything you need to make your next sermon series on prayer be a success. The last three are ideas you can use as inspiration for crafting your own prayer sermon series. Let's dive in.

5 Best Prayer Sermon Series

1. Praying

This four-week series approaches what it means to live a life of prayer. Starting with the difference between the joy of a real relationship through the gospel versus empty religious duty, this series will encourage students to develop a meaningful prayer life by overcoming distractions, prioritizing God’s presence, and using God’s Word as fuel for effective prayer. Get the Praying sermon series.

2. The Prayers of the Psalms

This six-week sermon series offers a snapshot of the book of Psalms, examining the different types or categories of psalms, as well as what they mean to us today. By focusing on the need for honest communication with God, traversing the range of human experiences and emotions, this series will encourage your congregation to use God’s Word as fuel for both personal and corporate prayer. We can come to God with our hopes, fears, anger, and praise, knowing he hears us and wants to draw us near to him. Get The Prayers of the Psalms sermon series.

3. Dangerous Prayers

This sermon series idea covers four different types of prayers: Use Me, Search Me, Break Me, and Send Me.

4. Tough Prayers

This sermon series idea is about prayers that make us uncomfortable that can change our lives if we’re willing to pray them.

5. Airplane Mode

Airplane Mode is a series designed to help us focus our attention on God and grow in prayer. We will explore life’s greatest need; connection to God. We will see how prayer is the lifeline to Heaven and one of the church’s greatest gifts.

Brandon Kelley is a pastor at The Crossing on the east side of Cincinnati. He is the managing editor of Ministry Pass, co-founder of RookiePreacher.com, and the author of Preaching Sticky Sermons. You can connect with him on Twitter @BrandonKelley_.