Download or read book Prayer Is Not an Option It S a Command written by Sophia L. Garcia and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why churches today only remind us about how the miracle of God manifested itself in the churches of yesteryear? Lets be honest: some churches do not experience the power of God because they do not practice regular prayer meetings. We cannot continue to have church as usual and languish in prayerlessnessGod is waiting to hear your voice. Prayer Is Not an Option, Its a Command can help you maintain a prayer life with our heavenly Father. Author and minister Sophia L. Garcia urges believers to understand that prayer is an essential element of Christianity, and as an act of worship it plays a vital role in the church. By understanding this role and by learning the spiritual and practical steps to maintaining a successful prayer life, you can make the personal choice to engage in prayer. Having a prayer life is not something that just happens; you have to stay focused and make time to pray. When you dont pray, you are saying to Yeshua, I can handle my business today. If I need your assistance, then I will pray. But not praying will cripple your relationship with Jesus Christ and cause you to be independent of him instead of depending on Him. Fellowship with the creator of the universe is only a prayer awayand all you need is a sincere heart and an open spirit.

Download or read book Prayer Is Not an Option It s a Command written by Sophia L. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where the Light Fell written by Philip Yancey and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today’s most celebrated Christian writers recounts his unexpected journey from a strict fundamentalist upbringing to a life of compassion and grace—a revelatory memoir that “invites comparison to Hillbilly Elegy” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Searing, heartrending . . . This stunning tale reminds us that the only way to keep living is to ask God for the impossible: love, forgiveness, and hope.”—Kate Bowler, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father’s death—a secret that began to illuminate the motivations that drove his mother to extreme, often hostile religious convictions and a belief that her sons had been ordained for a divine cause. Searching for answers, Yancey dives into his family origins, taking us on an evocative journey from the backwoods of the Bible Belt to the bustling streets of Philadelphia; from trailer parks to church sanctuaries; from family oddballs to fire-and-brimstone preachers and childhood awakenings through nature, music, and literature. In time, the weight of religious and family pressure sent both sons on opposite paths—one toward healing from the impact of what he calls a “toxic faith,” the other into a self-destructive spiral. Where the Light Fell is a gripping family narrative set against a turbulent time in post–World War II America, shaped by the collision of Southern fundamentalism with the mounting pressures of the civil rights movement and Sixties-era forces of social change. In piecing together his fragmented personal history and his search for redemption, Yancey gives testament to the enduring power of our hunger for truth and the possibility of faith rooted in grace instead of fear. “I truly believe this is the one book I was put on earth to write,” says Yancey. “So many of the strands from my childhood—racial hostility, political division, culture wars—have resurfaced in modern form. Looking back points me forward.”

Download or read book Prayer a Force That Causes Change written by David Williamson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Prayer: A Force that Causes Change A Life of Prayer is a challenge sent out to Christians to take their prayer practices up to a new level. It is a call to change what has been done and move into a new realm of power in prayer. Christian prayer is a source of power for changing the world. It is a means of focusing Gods power and might on the needs of people and nations. God has promised answers if we will pray His way. This book will challenge you and make you think about prayer. It will call you to make changes to your prayer life. It is a call to a powerful and effective life of prayer. This book is a series of articles on prayer, first published as weekly articles in the Voice of Thanksgiving newsletter. These articles are enjoyable to read, but challenging to common practices of prayer. Prayer: A Force that Causes Change - A Life of Prayer is the second of four volumes on developing a powerful prayer life that accomplishes much. The articles are intended as lessons and meditations on prayer. They are written to promote development of an effective life of prayer. These articles are intended to encourage men and women to go to the Holy Spirit School of Christian life and prayer, where we learn to live a full and complete Christian life and to have a life of prayer that avails much.

Download or read book The Divine HoursTM Pocket Edition written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a week's worth of fixed-hour prayers that one can use while traveling or out of the home.

Download or read book Karl Barth on Prayer written by Ashley Cocksworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Cocksworth presents Karl Barth as a theologian who not only produces a strong and vibrant theology of prayer, but also grounds theology itself in the practice of prayer. Prayer and theology are revealed to be integrally related in Barth's understanding of the dogmatic task. Cocksworth provides careful analysis of a range of key texts in Barth's thought in which the theme of prayer emerges with particular interest. He analyzes: Barth's writings on the Sabbath and uncovers an unexpected theology of contemplative prayer; the doctrine of creation of the Church Dogmatics and explores its prioritization of petitionary prayer; and the ethics of the doctrine of reconciliation in which a 'turn to invocation' is charted and the final 'resting place' of Barth's theology of prayer is found. Through the theme of prayer fundamental questions are asked about the relation of human agency to divine agency as conceived by Barth, and new insights are offered into his understandings of the nature and task of theology, pneumatology, sin, baptism, religion, and sanctification. The result is a rich engagement with Barth's theology of prayer, an advancements of scholarship on Karl Barth, and a constructive contribution to the theology of prayer.

Download or read book A choice collection of Family Prayers To which are added a few divine poems written by Joseph MILLER (Schoolmaster.) and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Warfare Prayer written by C. Peter Wagner and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare Prayer provides a toolbox and an operator s manual for those who take seriously the Apostle Paul s statement that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers. The demonic world around us is a reality, but all too few believers understand that realm of darkness to say nothing of having the skills to use effectively the weapons of warfare that God has given us. Based on a combination of sound biblical theology and real life experiences, this book is a user-friendly guide for those committed enough to join the army of God.

Download or read book Giving Ourselves to Prayer written by Howard Baker and published by PrayerShop Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by Dr. Dan Crawford, this is an 80 chapter, 592 page textbook written by 80 different professors and national prayer leaders. It is a complete textbook on prayer designed for pastors and seminary students and Christian college students who are training for the ministry. The content covers both personal prayer issues and concepts and how to grow prayer in a church. Here are the 4 Sections of the book and a listing of some of the chapter topics: Section One: The Theological Foundation of Prayer Chapter 1: The Bible and Prayer- Gary T. Meadors Chapter 2: Jewish Traditions of Prayer- Jan Verbrugge Chapter 3: Prayer and the Kingdom of God- Ron Walborn Chapter 4: God the Father and Prayer- Patricia A. Outlaw Chapter 5: God the Son and Prayer- James R. Wicker Chapter 6: Praying in the Name of Jesus- Randal Roberts Chapter 7: The Gospel of Prayer- John W. Taylor Chapter 8: God the Spirit and Prayer- James L. Wakefield Chapter 12: The Aspects, Varieties and Kinds of Prayer- Alice Smith Chapter 13: Prayer and the Sovereignty of God- Leith Anderson Chapter 15: Problems of Seemingly Unanswered Prayer- Elmer L. Towns Chapter 19: Responding in Prayer to God's Character- Aida Besancon Spencer Section Two: The Personal Passion for Prayer Chapter 23: Jesus as a Role Model of Personal Passion in Prayer- Howard Baker Chapter 25: Disciplines of Personal Prayer- Dan R. Crawford Chapter 30: How to Address God in Prayer- William David Spencer Chapter 31: To Whom Does God Listen?- W. Bingham Hunter Chapter 32: How to Hear from God in Prayer- Calvin A. Blom Section Three: The Corporate Expression of Prayer Chapter 41: The Bible and Church Prayer- J. Chris Schofield Chapter 42: The Place of Prayer in the Early Church- Steve Booth Chapter 43: The Meaning of "A House of Prayer"- Dennis Fuqua Chapter 44: How to Build a House of Prayer- Dave Butts Chapter 47: Leading/Facilitating Corporate Prayer- Phil Miglioratti Chapter 48: Prayer in the Corporate Worship Service- Jonathan Graf Chapter 54: Mobilizing Youth to Pray- Mike Higgs Chapter 55: Prayer Components for City-wide Movements- Tom White Chapter 56: Pastoral Prayers of Intercession- Stan May Chapter 57: Worship Based Prayer vs. List Based Prayer- Dick Eastman Chapter 60: How to Evaluate the Prayer Life of a Congregation- Daniel Henderson Section Four: The Global Impact of Prayer Chapter 61: The Bible and Global Prayer- Henry Blackaby Chapter 62: Prayer and Spiritual Awakenings- Glenn Sheppard Chapter 63: Prayer and Evangelism- Alvin L. Reid Chapter 66: Strategic Prayer for God's Mission and Missionaries- Mike Barnett Chapter 69: Prayer and Spiritual Warfare- Chuck Lawless Chapter 70: Mobilizing Prayer Advocacy- Eleanor Witcher Chapter 75: Prayer for the Harvest- Paula Hemphill Chapter 76: Prayer Journeys: Praying on Location for the Nations- Pat Allen Chapter 80: The Lord's Model of Prayer for the Kingdom- Darrell W. Johnson

Download or read book A Praying Life written by Paul E. Miller and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 500,000 copies sold! Updated and expanded! Prayer is hard. Often, unless circumstances demand it—such as an illness or saying grace before a meal—most of us simply do not pray. This kind of prayerlessness can leave us with a distressed spirit and practical unbelief characterized by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual depression. A Praying Life is a prayer guide that has encouraged thousands of Christians to pursue a vibrant prayer life full of joy and power and has helped them learn how to pray faithfully and courageously. A life of prayer invites you to a life of connection to God. When Jesus describes the intimacy that He seeks with us, He talks about joining us for dinner (Revelation 3:20). This book reminds readers that prayer is simply making conversation with God a rhythm of daily Christian life. A Praying Life includes chapters about: How to deal with unanswered prayer How to start a prayer journal Does prayer make a difference? Now with added chapters addressing prayers of lament and further guidance for using prayer cards, Paul Miller invites you to foster prayer that regularly hopes, trusts, and expects God to act. Learn to develop helpful habits and approaches to prayer that will enable you to return to a childlike faith and witness spiritual growth today! “This book will be like having the breath of God at your back. Let it lift you to new hope.” —Dan B. Allender, PhD, author of Bold Love

Download or read book At Home in Your Heart written by Carol Burton McLeod and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do you live—truly live? You may have a street address. You may think of your childhood home. But your real home, this side of heaven, is your heart. Your heart is home to your soul and your emotions as well as your thought life. Your attitudes, habits, and dreams are found there. At Home in Your Heart: Inviting Christ into Every Room is written for women of all ages, backgrounds, and stages of life. Each day in this sixty-day devotional by Carol McLeod includes an essay on the thought for the day, a heart inspection, prayer, and words from Scripture. Topics include: Is Anybody Home?; Blessed by the Begats; A Song at Midnight; Wear God Out; and many more, all offered with Carol's characteristic humor, love, and affection. If you are a Christian, Jesus lives in your heart with you, no matter what condition it’s in. If there are problems, however, He wants to clean until His hands bleed. Carol invites you to walk through the rooms of your heart to identify the issues that Christ is shining His light on. “Jesus wants to paint your heart the color of white snow,” she says. “He will gently move around priorities, set things out for the trash man, and replace every outdated attitude with His unconditional love and inexpressible joy. He can take a home that has been literally demolished by the storms of life and rebuild it into a palace fit for a king.”

Download or read book Essential Prayers written by Timothy Atunnise and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Prayers is an anointed prayer book that touches every aspect of life. It offers ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works. Essential Prayers is for every Christian home, it will surely transform your prayer life and reshape your entire outlook of life. Essential Prayers addresses your personal situations, it provides prayers for marriage restoration, total victory, financial release, deliverance from addiction, prayer against problems started in childhood, foundational problems, prayer for singles, prayer against ancestral debt-collectors, prayer for signs and wonders, and many more. We are given the authority and power to take over, not to be run over. If you fail to take over, you’ll be run over. Essential Prayers offers step-by-step prayer guidelines to take over and possess your possessions.

Download or read book BECOMING A PRAYER WARRIOR written by GODSWORD GODSWILL ONU and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going through Becoming a Prayer-warrior, you will come to understand that whatever things you ask in the Name of Jesus Christ when you pray, believing that you receive them, you will have them. And whoever says to this mountain, "Be removed, and be cast into the sea," and does not doubt, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. The confidence that we have in God is that when we pray according to His Will, He hears us, because we always do those things that please Him.

Download or read book Let Us Pray A Symposium on Prayer by Leading Preacher and Theologians written by R. C. Sproul and published by The Northampton Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When our Lord's disciples came to Him regarding prayer, they did not ask Him to teach them how to pray, but rather they asked Him to teach them to pray. Obviously even those closest to Christ needed to learn to pray. And so do we. Here, some of our best Bible teachers and expositors give us instruction on prayer, from why we should pray, to what prayer is, how it ties in with God's sovereignty, what it means to pray in Jesus' name, what it means to hallow God's name, and why God is to be the focus of our prayers, not ourselves. These, and many other topics, are addressed in this helpful book.

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Download or read book Power Praying written by David Chotka and published by AudioInk Publishing . This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 2,000 years of commentary and writings on the Lord’s Prayer, is it possible to glean anything new? Power Praying proves the answer is “yes!” Unique and transformational describe the content of this personal or group study. You will be excited and challenged as you dig deeply into this model prayer. Learn to tap into the same power—through prayer—that was displayed in Jesus’ ministry. Power Praying can be used as an individual read, or in a group study. Divided into 8 weeks, each week looks at a phrase from the Lord’s Prayer and provides helpful suggestions on including its principles in your own prayer life.