 Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
by Richard J. Foster
In the ten years since its publication, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home has helped hundreds of thousands of seekers discover a richer prayer life. Widely considered the best modern work on Christian prayer, this life-changing book explores the three "movements" of this central spiritual practice, offering a sensitive, warm, and compelling primer that helps us understand, experience, and follow its many forms—from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. Foster clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest.
This accessible, rich, and reliable guide shows how each of the various forms of prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home has won numerous honors including Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the Evangelical Christian Publishers' Association Gold Medallion Award.
Recommended by Clayton Coates and Steve Gladen
ISBN: 0060628464
1992 HarperCollins Publishers
276 pages
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 Power Through Prayer
by Edward M. Bounds
"What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use: men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men: men of prayer." (from Chapter 1: "Men of Prayer Needed" )
Some Christians insist that 19th-century American pastor Edward M. Bounds offered a more profound understanding of prayer for modern believers than any other contemporary religious thinker. This classic book on personal communication with God explores how sincere prayer brings faith to life. It examines prayer, why a praying ministry will be successful, prayer and devotion united, an example of devotion, the necessity of preparing the heart, grace from the heart rather than the head, and much more. Seekers of wisdom are sure to find words of truth in this inspirational volume.
EDWARD McKENDREE BOUNDS (1835 to 1913) was an American Methodist minister and writer who served as a chaplain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He wrote several best-selling books on prayer, including The Necessity of Prayer, Possibilities of Prayer, The Weapon of Prayer, and others.
Recommended by Kenny Luck, Rick Warren, and Buddy Owens
ISBN: 1602065411
2007 Cosimo
132 pages
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 When God Answers Prayer
by Bob Russell, with Rusty Russell
Some people are "prayer plodders": They pray not because prayer comes easy but because they believe in its power. Others are "prayer professionals": they are gifted in the practice of prayer; prayer seems to flow authentically and effectively from their hearts. Whether you are a plodder or a professional, you can be a prayer warrior—one whose prayers are powerful and effectual—even efficient.
The simple message of this book is that prayer works. Even if prayer doesn't always come easily or your prayers aren't always answered as you'd hoped, you will come away from this book convinced that God rewards genuine prayer. Open the pages of this book and see for yourself what happens when God answers prayer!
Recommended by Shaun Blakeney
ISBN: 1582293171
2003 Howard Books
238 pages
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 Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
by Philip Yancey
In his most powerful book since What’s So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey probes the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? How does it work? And more importantly, does it work? In theory, prayer is the essential human act, a priceless point of contact between us and the God of the universe. In practice, prayer is often frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? is an exploration of the mysterious intersection where God and humans meet and relate.
Writing as a fellow pilgrim, Yancey explores such questions as: Is God listening? Why should God care about me? If God knows everything, what’s the point of prayer? Why do answers to prayer seem so inconsistent and capricious? Why does God seem sometimes close and sometimes far away? How can I make prayer more satisfying? "I have found that the most important purpose of prayer may be to let ourselves be loved by God," says Yancey. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? encourages us to pray to God the Father who sees what lies ahead of us, knows what lies within us, and who invites us into an eternal partnership—through prayer.
ISBN: 0310271053
2006 Zondervan
352 pages
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 Too Busy Not to Pray
by Bill Hybels
Bill Hybels's accessible introduction to prayer has already helped over 400,000 readers develop a rich and regular prayer life in the midst of life's busyness. Now, in this revised and expanded 10th anniversary edition, he includes new insights from his years of ministry and his own spiritual journey. He shows how to slow down to pray, listen to God, respond to what we hear, practice the presence of God and overcome prayer barriers. This fun and practical book offers the resources we need for growing, ongoing experiences in prayer.
Recommended by Doug Fields
ISBN: 0830819711
1998 InterVarsity Press
191 pages
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 Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
by Dallas Willard
In life, you make thousands of decisions, big and small. You want these decisions grounded in "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" and you lift your petitions to God in prayer, but communication with God is a two-way street. Are you listening to Him? In Hearing God, you'll learn how the other half of the conversation works in practice. At its end, you'll have a biblically-based portrait of what intimacy with God looks like and a vision of life enriched by hearing God's voice. In this updated classic, originally published as In Search of Guidance, the author provides rich spiritual insight into how we can clearly hear God's voice and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom.
ISBN: 9780830822263
1999 InterVarsity Press
228 pages
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 With Christ in the School of Prayer: Thoughts on Our Training for the Ministry of Intercession
by Andrew Murray
Times change, but God's principles of prayer are timeless. That's why With Christ in the School of Prayer is as alive today with power as when first written more than a century ago. Andrew Murray reminds us that only when the Church gives herself up to the holy calling of intercession—a calling that Christ himself ever lives to perform—can we expect the power of Christ to be manifested on the Church's behalf.
Recommended by Steve Gladen
ISBN: 1598562657
2007 Hendrickson Publishers, Incorporated
223 pages
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 Restoring a Nation's Foundations: Prayer Strategies and Action Plans
by Jimmy and Carol Owens
If we allow our nation’s Christian foundations to crumble, who will defend us from those bent on our destruction? In this practical, hope-filled book, the authors set forth specifics on how to pray in these crucial days, and what to do to meet God’s conditions for our nation’s restoration.
ISBN: 9781599792248
2008 Foursquare Media
272 pages
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 God's Chosen Fast: A Spiritual Guide to Fasting
by Arthur Wallis
This is a balanced study which seeks to give fasting the weight that Scripture gives, while avoiding abuse. The book includes a biblical index and an appendix dealing with the textual problems surrounding four references to fasting in the New Testament.
Recommended by Steve Gladen
ISBN: 0875085555
1993 Christian Literature Crusade, Incorporated
154 pages
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