
Lectio 365 4+
Daily devotional, 24-7 Prayer
24-7 prayer
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- Free
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Description
An app created for your prayer life. Lectio 365 helps you build a daily prayer habit to connect with God – anytime, anywhere, for whatever your day holds.
Meditate on God’s word morning, noon and night: Lectio 365 is a completely free daily devotional app to help you pause in the presence of God.
Jesus and his early followers stopped to pray three times a day. You can join in with this ancient rhythm and pray like Jesus did, with three short prayer times to slow down, find calm, meditate on scripture, and experience God’s presence.
DEVELOP A DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS
Join hundreds of thousands of people across the globe and learn to meditate on the Bible and respond in prayer. Each morning the devotional follows the simple P.R.A.Y rhythm:
* P:ause to be still
* R:ejoice with a Psalm and reflect on Scripture
* A:sk for God’s help
* Y:ield to his will in your life
COMING 1 JANUARY 2025: At midday, pause to pray The Lord’s Prayer and consider a short reflection to connect with God. The prayer each day will be focused on compassion: getting your attention away from your own agenda to see the world from God’s perspective, interceding for his kingdom to come.
End your day with peaceful Night Prayers that help you:
* Reflect on the day that has passed, relinquishing stress and control
* Rejoice in God’s goodness, noticing his presence throughout the day
* Repent and receive forgiveness for what has gone wrong
* Rest in readiness for sleep
LISTEN OR READ ON THE GO
You can choose to listen to the devotional being read, with or without music; you can also read it for yourself. Download morning, noon and night prayers a week in advance to listen or read wherever you are and save your favourite devotionals from the last 30 days to return to.
TRY SOMETHING ANCIENT
Lectio 365 Morning Prayers are inspired by the ancient practice of ‘Lectio Divina’ (meaning ‘Divine Reading’), a way of meditating on the Bible that’s been used by Christians for centuries.
Lectio 365 Midday Prayers are centred around The Lord’s Prayer.
Lectio 365 Night Prayers are inspired by the Ignatian practice of The Examen, which is a way to prayerfully reflect on your day.
TOPICAL CONTENT, TIMELESS THEMES
* Pray about global issues and headlines (e.g. wars, natural disasters, areas of injustice)
* Explore timeless Biblical themes (e.g. ‘The Names of God,’ or ‘The Teachings of Jesus’)
* Prepare for Christmas, Easter and Pentecost and celebrate heroes of the faith on Feast Days
FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANS…
Jesus and his disciples followed the Jewish tradition of praying three times a day. The early church continued this practice, uniting not simply around a weekly meeting but also around a daily rhythm of prayer. This practice of returning to God over and over again throughout the day helped to launch the church all over the world. With Lectio 365, you become part of reviving this ancient rhythm of prayer in the modern church.
EXPERIENCE GOD’S PRESENCE
Time each day to remember who you really are, who God really is, and the story you are living in. Take your eyes off your circumstances and turn your attention to God: deliberately interrupting your ordinary, everyday life to remember who you’re living for.
SHAPE YOUR LIFE
Learn about the six Christian practices at the heart of the 24-7 Prayer movement and be inspired to build rhythms of:
* Prayer
* Mission
* Justice
* Creativity
* Hospitality
* Learning
JOIN THE 24-7 PRAYER MOVEMENT
24-7 Prayer started in 1999, when one simple student-led prayer vigil went viral, and groups all over the world joined in to pray non-stop. Now, a quarter of a century later, 24-7 Prayer is an international, interdenominational prayer movement, still praying continuously in thousands of communities. 24-7 Prayer has helped individuals all over the world to encounter God in prayer rooms; now we want to help people develop a daily relationship with Jesus.
www.24-7prayer.com
What’s New
Version 4.1.3
- Resolved an issue affecting calendar display in archive sections.
Ratings and Reviews
Love app—2 suggestions
I love this app! It is a great on ramp for my prayer times. There have been multiple times when the scripture passage or theme is exactly what I needed in the moment. God is definitely using this for good! I particularly love praying the Lord’s Prayer during midday and that there is an emphasis on obeying and applying the scriptures but in a very inviting way.
One suggestion I have is to create a way to keep the music playing while the devo is paused. I find the background music helpful to stay focused because I have a very scattered mind. However, the pauses in the devo aren’t quite long enough for me to pray the invitation so I need to pause it. To solve the problem I’ve just been putting my own soaking music in the background to help me stay focused but it would be nice if there was a way to do that in the app.
Also, I appreciate all the creators and guests. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t been using it very long, but I do wish we had more diversity in the authors and guides of the devos. Hearing from a brother or sister in a very different context and culture from my own (white American) is so very edifying and powerful. I hope there will be more voices from the global church in the future.
Thank you
I seriously want to give a very big thank you to the creators of this app. I’m a fifteen year old guy and for a while now I’ve been praying about something on my heart quite a bit. It’s that I felt that I was on the cusp of a closer more meaningful relationship with God and I really wanted that so badly. I just wanted to feel that closeness and peace that I’ve heard about others having. And at times I felt discouraged because it just seemed as if I couldn’t quite bridge the gap. But then tonight, I listened to the nighttime prayer on this app with my parents as they listen to it regularly. As I was following along with it, I just felt this overwhelming peace from God and I knew he was there with me and I could feel his love so clearly. And the voices and the music and just being with God was so amazing. I really think it helped me finally bridge the gap and it is awesome. I now have downloaded the app and will for sure be a regular user. Thanks so much.
Developer Response ,
Thanks so much for letting us know. That's so great to hear.
Universal Sermonettes detract from scripture and prayer
I really love the scripture and the pauses for silence, reflection and prayer.
What I don’t like is that every user receives the same thing as each other every day, and the sermonettes thrown in. Having tens of thousands of people listening to the same sermons takes away from the user having a personalized opportunity in engage with God’s word and the Spirit and could be abused by the developer to manipulate hearts - for example on election days. The mini-sermons have been emphasizing certain aspects of the passage of scripture while ignoring others. I’ve found myself praying for the other users to not be bent by the sermons away from the heart of the scripture.
If this were a tool where one could listen and reflect on scripture with the pauses for silence and prayer, but without the sermons and agenda, then it would be much better. Even better would be if it gives the user an opportunity to choose an area or topic with scripture that relates to that topic for a season for personal healing and growth. This is better produced than other apps, but I pray the developer uses it only for the spiritual benefit of the Body and not as a tool to push organizational agendas while distracting from full engagement with God’s Word as it is written.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the feedback.
App Privacy
The developer, 24-7 prayer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- 24-7 Prayer
- Size
- 40.8 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 24-7 Prayer
- Price
- Free