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Funny Stories About Prayer

Funny stories about prayer, from children's bedtime prayers to answers nobody expected, plus true stories of answered prayer to read aloud at church or Bible study.

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Children's Prayers

Funny bedtime and dinner prayers from little kids, from a plea to deliver us some e-mail to a boy who won't thank God for the broccoli because it would be lying.

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About this collection

Funny stories about prayer, and a few that will give you goosebumps. They’re short and clean, good for opening a prayer meeting, a Bible study or a Sunday school class with a smile.

Children’s Prayers collects the bedtime and dinner prayers only a child would pray. In Prayer Answered Professionally, an elderly woman locked out of her car asks for help and gets it from the last person she expected, and The Lord’s Prayer in Dialogue imagines what happens when God answers back halfway through. The Furnace Committee includes a prayer chain that turns into a weather service.

On the serious side, Buy the Milk follows a young man who obeys an odd nudge after Bible study, and The Hot Water Bottle is a missionary doctor’s true story of a child’s very specific prayer. For more, see Short Funny Devotional Stories and our faith section.