Echo Prayer Manager

I was going to call this post Godware, as a nod to Christian-based software, but a Google search of that word led to some decidedly odd sites. However you want to categorize it, the Echo Prayer Manager looks like a great addition to your Christian technology toolbox, along with e-Sword and eBible.

The “Readers Digest” version of what it does is allow you to enter your prayer items, and then email or text message you a reminder to pray about it when the day arrives. So if you wanted to pray for an upcoming event, you could enter that with the date, and shazaam! A reminder automagically appears right in your inbox or cell phone. It’s not rocket surgery, it’s actually quite easy to manage. See?

Ben Rugg, the creator of Echo Prayer Manager, wrote this about why he created it:

It’s pretty obvious the Bible calls us to pray for each other. James exhorts us to pray in all circumstances, Paul tells us to pray continually, and Jesus is an example even while he’s on the cross (see James 5:13-18, 1 Thes 5:17, Luke 23:32-34 for starters).

Well I don’t know about you, but I promise a lot of people that I’ll pray for them. And of course what generally happens is that I pray a couple times and then forget. Once I tried making a list of everything I wanted to pray about, but that just overwhelmed me. There were almost a hundred people and issues on the list, and I felt like I could never pray for all of them.

I complained about this to a friend one day and she told me that she sometimes writes people’s names on slips of paper and then puts them in a hat. She pulls one name at a time from the hat and prays for that person. That way she prays for everyone and it’s not overwhelming.

Inspired by that idea, I created this site. It’s a virtual “prayer hat” if you will. Instead of passively waiting for you to grab one prayer at a time, though, Echo actively sends you reminders. You customize it in the way that’s most useful for you — you can get emails or text messages any time throughout the week — and it reminds you to pray for one person or issue at a time.

Echo is a tool to help you pray more diligently. Pray for your coworkers, your friends, your family, your church, your country, your issues. And thank God continually.

You can try it for a month for free, and if you actually use it, it costs $8 per year. Admit it, you spend more than that at McDonalds every month. So, what are you still here for? Go check it out!