50 Best Worship Songs About Prayer

Best Christian Songs Focused on Prayer and Quiet Moments

There’s a kind of stretch in the day when everything slows but your mind won’t, and you’re left sitting with the heavy stuff. Not always dramatic. Sometimes it's the dull ache of waiting, the weird stillness after things fall apart, or that moment you close your eyes and try to say something into the quiet. Prayer slips into those cracks without asking permission. And when music finds that same wavelength, it doesn't rush to fix or inspireit lingers, breathes, waits with you. These tracks feel like that pause between inhale and exhale, where the real conversation begins.

There’s no neon lighting here, no arena-sized hooks. Just a voice that cracks a little, a lyric that circles something you were half-afraid to say out loud. Some of these songs are closer to whispers. Some carry the tired strength that only shows up when you’ve run out of ways to hold yourself together. There’s space here for doubt, for stillness, for the slow burn of trying to believe in something again. You won’t find the usual pop, rock, country, and R&B songs here trying to dress it up either. These ones feel more like the floor of your room at night or the back row of a church no one notices.

Prayer doesn’t always come out polished or poetic. It mumbles, backtracks, flares up, fades out. The songs here carry that same strange rhythm. The ones that let the quiet be honest, even when it shakes. The ones that catch you mid-thought, mid-breakdown, mid-anything, and stay for it. Here are the worship tracks that hold space for those kinds of moments.

1. 'The Blessing'—Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Elevation Worship, and Maverick City Music

2. 'Lord, I Need You'—Matt Maher

3. 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus'—Joseph Scriven and Charles Crozat Converse

4. 'Sweet Hour of Prayer'—William Walford and William B. Bradbury

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6. 'Open the Eyes of My Heart'—Paul Baloche

7. 'Give Us Clean Hands'—Chris Tomlin

8. 'Battle Belongs'—Phil Wickham

9. 'Talking to Jesus'—Maverick City Music

10. 'Here Again'—Elevation Worship

11. 'I Surrender All'—Judson Van DeVenter and Winfield S. Weeden

12. 'In Jesus Name (God of Possible)'—Katy Nichole

13. 'Way Maker'—Sinach

14. 'Trust In God'—Elevation Worship

15. 'Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)'—Hillsong UNITED

16. 'The Lord's Prayer'—Hillsong Worship

17. 'I Need Thee Every Hour'—Annie S. Hawks and Robert Lowry

18. 'Be Thou My Vision'—Eleanor Henrietta Hull and Mary Elizabeth Byrne

19. 'Heal Our Land'—Kari Jobe

20. 'In the Garden'—C. Austin Miles

21. '10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)'—Matt Redman

22. 'Surrounded (Fight My Battles)'—Michael W. Smith

23. 'God I Look to You'—Bethel Music

24. 'I'm Listening'—Chris McClarney

25. 'Cleanse Me'—J. Edwin Orr and F. J. Crosby

26. 'Have Thine Own Way, Lord!'—Adelaide A. Pollard and George C. Stebbins

27. 'Jesus, I Come'—William T. Sleeper and George C. Stebbins

28. 'Near to the Heart of God'—Cleland B. McAfee

29. 'I Must Tell Jesus'—Elisha A. Hoffman

30. 'Desperate'—Jamie MacDonald

31. 'Leaning on the Everlasting Arms'—Elisha A. Hoffman and Anthony J. Showalter

32. 'What If His People Prayed?'—Casting Crowns

33. 'We Will Feast in the House of Zion'—Sandra McCracken

34. 'I'm Leaning On You'—David Crowder

35. 'God Will Make a Way'—Don Moen

36. 'Lead Me to the Cross'—Hillsong UNITED

37. 'Take My Life and Let It Be Consecrated'—Frances Ridley Havergal and Henri A. César Malan

38. 'O Come to the Altar'—Elevation Worship

39. 'My Faith Looks Up to Thee'—Ray Palmer and Lowell Mason

40. 'When We Pray'—Tauren Wells

41. 'Prayer for the Broken'—The Worship Initiative

42. 'Ask Seek Pray'—Passion

43. 'My Lighthouse'—Rend Collective

44. 'Spirit of the Living God'—Daniel Iverson

45. 'Bless God'—Brooke Ligertwood and Cody Carnes

46. 'I Speak Jesus'—Here Be Lions and Darlene Zschech

47. 'Praying for You'—Chris Tomlin

48. 'Our Prayer'—Rend Collective

49. 'Even When It Hurts (Praise Song)'—Hillsong UNITED

50. 'I'm Listening'—Chris McClarney