Prayer is hard when you don’t know where to start, and that’s the exact problem this book is written for. Prayers for Difficult Times for Men: When You Don’t Know What to Pray, by Quentin Guy (Barbour Publishing), is a 224-page collection of short prayer starters built around real situations: illness, relationship trouble, self-worth, grief, and more.
What’s inside
Each entry follows the same pattern: a short devotional thought, a relevant Bible verse, and a prayer starter you can pray as-is or use as a launching point for your own words. The book covers more than 50 topics, so it reads less like a cover-to-cover devotional and more like a reference you open to the page that matches whatever you’re facing that day.
Who it’s for
This is a good fit for men who feel like they should pray more but freeze up when it’s time to actually say something. It’s also useful for small groups: several entries work well as discussion starters, since they name specific struggles instead of staying vague. If you want a full theological treatise, this isn’t that. It’s short, practical, and meant to be used in the moment, not studied for hours.
Our take
The strength of this book is its honesty about the topics it covers. It doesn’t dress up hard seasons in easy language. If you or someone you know is stuck on how to pray through a specific struggle, this gives you a starting point and gets out of the way.
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