Happy Friday! I want to share with you today an easy and simple idea that you can use as you pray for others.
This idea started several years ago when I got a stack of index cards and a list of family and friends. The kids wrote a name on each of the cards, decorated them and then each morning during our Bible time, we would pick the top card and pray for that person that day.
I often wished we had an easy way to tell those friends and family they had been the person of the day and that we had prayed for them. It’s always so encouraging to learn that someone is praying for you!
And in a world saturated with texting, email and instant messaging, handwritten snail mail is a rare treat.
Free printable prayer postcards
Because I wanted something to send the person we were praying for, as well as a card to remind us to pray, I finally sat down and created prayer postcards. I had been wanting to make these for our family for a while, and you all were just the motivation I needed to go ahead and do this project!
These prayer postcards are two-sided with a place to write a message on one side and a place to put the address and stamp on the other.
For a true postcard feel, print these on card stock. Four postcards will print out on each 8.5 x 11 inch paper. You can use white or colored cardstock.
If your family is like ours, we have many friends going through serious issues right now that we are regularly praying for. We also have family members that we pray for as well as missionaries. October is pastor appreciation month, but it’s always a good time to pray for our pastor and staff, and let them know we’re praying.
Ways to use the Prayer Postcards
The front of the card has room for a short note of encouragement or scripture verses to encourage the person you’re praying for.
I’ve also had my younger kids draw a picture and sign their own names. How sweet to open up the mailbox and find a personal handdrawn card!
These cards can also be printed one-sided, without the address side on the back, to tuck into a lunch box, a college care package or a gift bag.
Finally, they can be printed one-sided to attach to a plant or gift brought to someone in the hospital or nursing home, or taped onto the top of a casserole given to a neighbor or friend.
So many ways to use these prayer postcards! I’ve actually found it’s fairly inexpensive to have them printed on cardstock at my local print shop. If you’re not up for printing your own, I keep some of these postcards on hand and have used them to encourage and send.
I hope these bless your family! Get these Prayer Postcards free when you subscribe here.
LOVE this idea, Lisa and like you, we really enjoy “real” mail =) thanks for sharing!
Amanda, I have one son that is really good at writing letters. I hope this makes it easy for the rest of us.
miss you, sweet friend!
Great Idea!!!!
Hope you Georgia girls can use it!
This is such a great idea! I love how it teaches the kids the importance of intercession prayer. I think I will adopt this into our Bible time! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you Deana! Yes, glad we finally have these to use!
This is such a great idea and very thoughtful! What a great way to get your kids involved in praying for others. Great job mom!
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I have a friend who sent me a note like that! She saved her Christmas cards and prayed for 1 family a night and then sent them a post card to tell say they were prayed for. I adopted her idea of praying for a different family each night going thru our Christmas card stack, but don’t take the effort to tell them so. Thanks for sharing this! Good idea to get kids involved!
Mary, that’s a neat way to pray for family and friends!
Thank you so much for this wonderful idea and freebie shortcut! Love it! 🙂
You are welcome!
Thank I you this is going to be a tremendous help for what we want to do. It’s appreciated!!!
I love your idea of writing the names of people to pray for and sending them a postcard to let them know they have been prayed for! I have already printed the postcards and I am planning on using them right away! While I was checking my email today I saw an email from you. I get so many emails and I usually scroll on by when it is someone I don’t recognize. I opened your email, remembering your postcards, and I read it. I know I opened it for a reason, God was speaking to me through you! Thank you so much for sharing “Thanking God in Advance” while praying. I wrote it down in my prayer journal, a journal I have been meaning to use for months but have not gotten around to. It is just what I needed to hear today and I will be praying differently! Thank you so much for sharing! I just wanted to let you know that you are changing lives!
A pinterest search for prayer cards for our church Joy Sister ministry landed me here. So encouraged by your story as I approach 6 months since my husband of 33 years died of a sudden heart attack. “God is good. God is loving. And God is sovereign.” That foundation has held me up through the 4 days of hospitalized uncertainty from Palm Sunday to Good Friday with COVID visitor limits, and in the months since his homegoing. I appreciate your sharing your story in words that echo gratitude in the grief. Words to share the grace of God in the midst of loss are difficult still. But your sharing makes me realize the value of sharing our stories. Your words and experience uplift me too.
Oh Becky, yes, we encourage each other as we share how God has walked with us in our suffering and meet every heart and practical need. I’m praying for you now, that you will see God’s lovingkindess all around you.
Thank you next month our Naz children are studying prayer. We will attach these to balloons for as release.
Lisa I make cards and was in a card club. During covid we “send a hug” in a card to various people in our church. Now, I have taken the ministry to my church and send cards out to people on our prayer chain and birthdays. It’s a benefit to them and yourself knowing you brightened someone’s day. With postage getting more expensive this is a great idea to cut the cost a little. Thank you and if you come up with more designs please send them.