Pray
Carry your people to God, and keep what He does.
A living prayer list for the people and needs actually in your life — with every answered prayer kept, so your own history becomes a testimony.
Imagery from Psalm Path for iPhone
A prayer’s whole life
Active. Answered. At rest.
Three states, and no more. There is deliberately no “lapsed” or “neglected” — Psalm Path has no vocabulary for a prayer you haven’t got round to, because it has no opinion about that.
● Active
Being prayed. A prayer stays here as long as it needs to — a week, a season, twenty years. It is never demoted for waiting.
● Answered
Marked by you, kept forever. Your answered prayers become an Ebenezer — a growing record of God’s faithfulness you can return to on hard days.
● At rest
Some prayers change rather than resolve. Archiving is not failure — it’s where those prayers rest, still part of your story.
No filing chores
Twelve shelves, ready when you are.
Categories you’d have to invent and maintain are a chore standing between you and praying. Psalm Path’s twelve shelves cover what people actually pray for — tap one and pray, or skip it entirely.
MyselfFamilyFriends
ChurchWorkHealth
ProvisionGuidanceConfession
ThanksgivingThe worldOther
Fifteen ways in
Most people who can’t pray just can’t start.
So every way into prayer opens with the words to start with — “God, I’m afraid that…”, “I’m willing to forgive…” — and gets out of the way once you’re going.
The hours of the day
Morning, midday, evening, night — each with its own register, so seven in the morning doesn’t pray like midnight.
Where you are today
Grateful, anxious, grieving, needing to forgive, needing direction. The mode meets the day you’re actually having, not the one you planned.
What’s in front of you
An exam, work, a relationship, healing, someone you love. And when words run out entirely — pray a psalm back to God, a stanza at a time.
Praying Scripture
Read. Pause. Pray.
Eight passages the church has always prayed — a psalm of trust, the Lord’s Prayer, the shepherd’s psalm — opened a few verses at a time. Read the words, sit in the pause, then pray them back in your own voice.
The Scripture on screen is always Scripture itself, drawn from the Bible on your phone in the translation you chose — never a paraphrase, never generated.
A time of prayer
Twenty minutes, gently held.
For the person who wants to pray longer and doesn’t know how, a guided time of prayer moves through the shape the church has taught for four centuries — settle, adore, confess, give thanks, ask — with your own prayer list woven in.
Moretto da Brescia, Christ in the Wilderness, ca. 1515–20
Fasting
An ancient practice, kept gentle.
Fast the way the church always has — a full fast, a Daniel fast, one meal given to prayer, dawn to dark, or a fast from screens. Three days, as Esther did; twenty-one, as Daniel did; or open-ended, until it’s settled.
When it gets hard, one button turns hunger into prayer. There is no “broken” state and there never will be — a fast is a practice, not a performance, and it is never graded.
Almost nobody fasts once. Keep a rhythm — Wednesdays, twenty-one days, all of Lent — and Psalm Path remembers it for you: a gentle reminder the evening before, quiet hours respected, and afterwards a record read with grace, never a grid of gaps.
Full fast
Daniel fast
One meal
Dawn to dark
Screens
Guided, day by day · Psalm Path+
A shape to pray in, over days rather than one sitting.
Most people who want to pray for something for a month manage about four days, and it is rarely for want of meaning it. A journey gives each day its own passage, its own thing to ask, and somewhere to put what comes back — so tomorrow does not start from nothing.
Praying for wisdom
Seven days
For a decision you have to make and cannot see the end of.
Praying for your family
Twenty-one days
Three weeks for the people you did not choose and cannot leave. It does not assume your family is well.
Growing closer to God
Thirty days
A month for the oldest complaint there is: I believe all of it, and he feels a long way off.
And three guided fasts
A fast with a reading for each day.
Three days, as Esther asked for. Seven days of asking, each taking one person in Scripture who fasted. Or the Daniel Fast — twenty-one days of plain food, following his tenth chapter. Every one of them is an ordinary fast underneath, with the same single button that turns hunger into prayer and the same refusal to grade you.
Each journey says what it does not promise, and each fast says who should not keep it. Thirty days will not make you feel close to God; feelings are not on offer and cannot be arranged. A fast from food is not safe for everyone — not if you are pregnant or nursing, not with diabetes or a history of disordered eating, not if you are unwell or underweight. Those sentences ship inside the app beside the plan they belong to, and the build script refuses to release a plan that is missing one. Please read the section on fasting and your wellbeing before you begin one.
Guided journeys and guided fasts are part of Psalm Path+. Keeping a fast without a plan, and praying for anything you like for as long as you like, are free and always were.
Sealed by design
What you pray is between you and God.
Prayer text is wrapped in a type that refuses to print itself, so it can’t slip into a log or a diagnostic by accident — and there is no server of ours for it to go to. Reading a prayer’s contents is a deliberate act even for the software itself.
“Cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you.”1 Peter 5:7 · World English Bible
