There are different kinds of prayers.Different situation require different kind of prayer. Prayer is not a one size-fits-all activity.

The following scripture pipoints four different kinds of prayer.

1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;


1. Prayer of supplication: This is the kind of prayer you pray when you want to change a situation or when you need help. In this kind of prayer what you need do act some what like a lawyer. Use God's word to make a case before God. Simply put : use God's word to convincingly establish why the situation should be changed or why the help should be granted. You argue out, as it were your case before God. In this kind of prayer, you continue prayeing indefinitely until you have a note of victory in your spirit which is usually joy bubbling out of your spirit.

As an example, we see Daniel supplicating for the nation of Isrealites who have been in bondage for seventy years.

Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:





2.Prayer of faith: This is the kind of prayer you pray when you need definite items like a car, some money, a job, a house etc.

In this kind of prayer you come to God with one scripture or more on which your request is based. Then you make your request in a two or three sentences( or a few sentences), after which you believe that your prayer has been answered and you expect to see the answer in the sense realm soonest. In this kind of prayer you must start acting like someone who has received the answer.You must start living in the reality of the answer especially in your confession.


Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.






3. Prayer of intercession: This is a kind of prayer you pray to a avert just judgement. It is a prayer you pray for someone who has done something deserving of unpalatable just judgement. In this kind of prayer the goal is to pray that God should allow mercy to prevail over judgement.
In this kind of prayer what you need do act some what like a lawyer. Use God's word to make a case before God. Simply put : use God's word to convincingly establish why mercy should be shown. You argue out, as it were, your case before God. In this kind of prayer, you continue praying indefinitely until you have a note of victory in your spirit which is usually joy bubbling out of your spirit.

Below we see an example of Moses interceding for the isrealites after they have committed the sin of creating a golden calf to worship.


Exodus 32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. 32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.






4. Prayer of thank giving: This a kind of prayer in which you offer thanks to God for having answered you prayer of supplication, intercession or faith. Or in which you offer thanks to God for anything.

The scripture below throws more light.


Hebrews 13:15 By him(Jesus) therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.









So that's it. Four types of scriptural prayer.