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When tragedy strikes, people desperately search for answers. Believers and unbelievers alike find themselves turning to God. Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado points to the only real answer to tragedy and crisis: Prayer. In For These Tough Times, Lucado helps us understand how to pray despite our doubt and fear.
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From the late 1920s to 1938, a young Polish nun had visions of Jesus. Jesus asked her to write down the conversations they had over this period of years, until she died of tuberculosis in 1938. A Polish priest, Fr. Sopocko, her friend, Confessor, and Spiritual Director, was her strong supporter and worked hard to get her notes composed into the book, "THE DIARY of ST. FAUSTINA. KOWALSKA." In that diary, Jesus tells her that the greatest attribute...
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Hypatia Hasbrouck does not simply teach that prayer is a worthwhile practice-she teaches how to pray. Handbook of Positive Prayer is full of exercises, tools, specific steps, and practices to use in creating your personal prayer life.
Hasbrouck explains the meaning of affirmative prayer and why we use the word amen. She writes extensively about visualization as a form of prayer. She makes suggestions for prayer journals, prayer partners, prayer letters,...
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Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 1
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A group of 12 extremely diverse women, assigned to a prayer group at a women's conference, become the best of friends as they support each other through the challenges and crises in their lives.
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Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 6
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What I'd like to know is, why does God keep rearranging my comfort zone? It could have something to do with my Yada Yada prayer sisters, who aren't afraid to get in each other's faces and tend to expect big things from God. But to move forward, sometimes we have to let go of what's behind. In spite of hte loss of two dear friends. In spite of the breakup of a teenage love. In spite of the curse of HIV. in spite of prison time hanging over the head...
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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His hand is ever on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the concerns of time. "His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men." He rules the world just as He rules the Church by prayer. This lesson needs to be emphasized, iterated and reiterated in the ears of men of modern times and brought to bear with cumulative force on the consciences...
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Written in the 16th century by a reform-minded Carmelite monk, Dark Night of the Soul is a treatise focusing on the metaphor of a dark night to represent a lonely phase in one's personal spiritual life. Saint John was a Roman Catholic mystic and a Spanish poet, and this work reflects his mystical stages toward union with God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker's journey...
29) The promise box
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Lydia Wyse is drawn back to her childhood Amish community through her mother's "promise box," and seeks to leave behind her secular life as a book editor when she meets bachelor Gideon Hooley.
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Old Testament history is, filled with accounts of praying saints. The leaders of Israel in those early days were, noted for their praying habits. Prayer is the one thing, which stands out prominently in their lives. In this book, E. M. Bounds chronicles the prayer lives of famous biblical men.
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Power Through Prayer is one of EM Bounds many classic works on prayer. He is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer.
Christ did not come for the righteous but for the sinner and He calls us to pray like he did to the Father in a continual basis. Bounds in this work outlines what kind of heaven and earth shattering effects prayer can have from the individual person to the very ministry that someone...
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The world in which we are living now is certainly different from the world of say forty years ago. Life has become so busy for all of us, and as a result, the things we once held dear such as the family, sharing, and caring have become things of the past.
Families the world over are going through difficult and challenging times. The divorce rate has never been so high, and many children suffer as a result of broken families and relationships.
The...
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Would you like to get the most out of your time spent in prayer? Throne Room Prayers will take you on a journey of discovery about how you are known in heaven. You will learn to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in prayer and walk into your divine inheritance. Your time in prayer will become the most cherished part of your day as you learn how to co-labor with the Father of all creation to bring His will to the Earth, as it is in heaven. Through journaling...
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Prayers of the Heart-Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23 KJV. These prayers have been compiled from the Word of God. In this day and time, we are dealing with issues of the heart from our Past, Finances, Families, Church, and Relationships. These scriptural prayers, petitions and decrees are a guide to use to help break the strongholds over your mind, body and soul, to break the power of darkness,...
35) Prayers from God
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Prayers from God ups the ante on how to pray out loud at church. A methodology is described whereby you can pray prayers that not only glorify God and edify the church but change lives and change the church. The book includes two hundred prayers that have been prayed out loud as part of the life of one evangelical church by one layman in worship services, prayer meetings, etc. over a period of twenty years. What makes these prayers unique is the authors...
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The difficult circumstances that are prevalent in the world we live in right now have caused a breakdown in people's lives and livelihoods. It is vital at such times to remember this simple, truth, that both individually and as the Body of Christ, we are God's house, and He desires to remain personally involved in building us up.
In The House That Prayer Built, Dr. Ade gives us an exposition on the art and purposes of prayer, which presents a clear,...
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Whoever believes "it is more blessed to give than to receive" will be stuck wondering if they deserve to receive an answered prayer. This book helps people who are stuck waiting for their prayers to be answered. The Bible says, "It is the Fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom" (Luke 12:32). Thus, it is your birthright to receive unconditionally.
This book is about receiving what you prayed for and how it happens. You will be introduced...
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This book is to teach Christian believers how to become an effective Intercessor using the Holy Scriptures as a total basis of their works of faith through prayer. It teaches how to be patient and not to become anxious as you are waiting for the answer to prayer, and it teaches how to work your measure of faith. The first part of the book consist of teaching and the later part of this book follows with examples of intercessory prayers, listing scriptures...
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These are some good prayers that are easy to use for everyday people going through hard times. When going through difficult times, having some good prayer to fall back on is valuable. I believe strongly in miracles; I have seen enough of them in my life. Look through the pages of my life and read the miracles and be uplifted by the mighty hand of God.
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Who doesn't feel a slight panic when called upon to say grace? Ack! Mealtime Blessings is the answer to your prayers. Collected here are more than 40 graces to say at mealtime or anytime when called upon. From the intro: "Ever since man has gathered to break bread, a mealtime prayer has helped to bring family and friends together…. What a wonderful gift we can give to our families at mealtime. During a moment of prayer, the house is quiet, work...