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"Once a week Episcopal priest Adrian Dannhauser stands outside her Manhattan church beside a chalkboard sign that reads "Ask me for a blessing (because God knows you need one)." Passersby stop, chat, and ask for prayer: for a sick friend, an addicted son, an upcoming job interview, the state of our nation, or the grief of our world. Bus drivers sometimes open their doors for a quick prayer before the light turns green, and someone once took her to...
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In The Power of a Praying® Nation, Stormie Omartian challenges Christians to pray for the land they call home. Using a similar format found in her other bestselling books on prayer, Stormie tackles tough questions about praying for our country and offers sample prayers that readers can use to pray for government and community leaders, the heroic men and women whose job it is to protect us (police officers, firefighters, soldiers), and for the welfare...
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Writing in the beautiful, funny, honest narrative style that moved and inspired readers of her first book, Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup explains what prayer is and the many ways we can pray. With an approach that is both personal and inclusive, Beginner's Grace is a new kind of prayer book. She provides clear models and practical suggestions for making your own and your family's prayers meaningful and satisfying, and offers prayers for situations...
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"With lyrical text from The Jesus Storybook Bible and new illustrations, The Lord's Prayer comes alive for children like never before. Cuddle up with your little one as you both discover God's Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love"--Page 4 of cover
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"Learn how the meditative practice of knitting can evolve in to a spiritual discipline. One third (53 million) of American women know how to knit, and knitting is becoming increasingly popular with men as well. Many of these knitters belong to social knitting circles, charity knitting groups, or knit with others in churches, cafes-and even in bars! This book shows how knitting creates connections and communities, and ties the repetition of knitting...
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First published in 1885 by South African religious leader and writer Andrew Murray, "With Christ in the School of Prayer" contains 31 powerful and inspiring lessons on prayer in daily life. While born in South Africa in 1828, as Murray's father was a Dutch Reformed Church missionary sent from Scotland, Murray grew up educated in Scotland and later the Netherlands. He returned to South Africa in 1848 after his ordination, pastored several churches...
7) How to Pray
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"How to Pray" is the inspiring treatise on prayer by R. A. Torrey, the famed American pastor, educator, writer, and evangelist. Born Reuben Archer Torrey in New Jersey in 1856, Torrey was educated at Yale University and Yale Divinity School before becoming a minister in Ohio. Torrey later joined Dwight L. Moody in his evangelical work in Chicago and became the superintendent of the Bible Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society, now the Moody...
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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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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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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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Many poetic works can inspire, but few, like this one, have the power to change your life. These verses rank with the greatest mystical poetry of all time: the works of St. John of the Cross, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai, and Omar Khayyam. In this book Paramhansa Yogananda-the great master of yoga and author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi-shares his exquisitely beautiful thoughts and words filled with longing for the divine. Yogananda was not only...
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The Hour That Changes the World, first published by Baker in 1978, is a classic book on prayer that offers practical suggestions on how readers can revitalize their prayer lives. Dick Eastman challenges Christians to spend one hour each day in prayer, and he outlines a twelve-step prayer program to help them accomplish the task. By dividing one hour into twelve five-minute "points of focus," such as praise, waiting, confession, and Scripture praying,...
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It s a timeless prayer that produces timely results! Bruce Wilkinson takes readers to 1 Chronicles 4:10 to discover how they can release God s miraculous power and experience the blessings God longs to give each of us. The life of Jabez, one of the Bible s most overlooked heroes of the faith, bursts from unbroken pages of genealogies in an audacious, fourpart prayer that brings him an extraordinary measure of divine favor, anointing, and protection....
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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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Book Description: Faithful. Fervent. Focused. Does that describe your prayer life? In The Prayerful Spirit, Dr. James P. Gills tells us how prayer has changed his life, how it has changed the lives of other doctors and their patients, and how it can change your life.
16) Prayer
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1 John 5:14-15 KJV And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.Prayer does not begin with what we desire or need or how much we need it. But Prayer begins with the will of God. Are you asking for something that will help the purpose of God in you? Or are you just imitating...
17) Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises: With Guidelines for Retreat Leaders and Covenant Groups
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Step-by-step retreat designs, accompanying meditation exercises, and leader's guidelines based on the bestseller Listening Hearts, are presented in this unique resource. Songs, from the Listening Hearts Songbook, specially-planned Eucharists, Scripture readings, meaningful projects, and meditation options are arranged to result in a Spirit-filled community bonding.
Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises can be used with other Listening Hearts series...
18) The Prayer
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The Prayer has a litany of intercession for: family, children, finance, healing, binding Satan, leadership, unity, prisoners/captives, bondage, addiction, and salvation.
I began to write a prayer for my prayer closet, that prayer evolved into this book. After writing down the prayers, praying them and experiencing great success, it was evident that this prayer was not exclusive for personal use, but for as many who will pray them. These are prayers...
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Imagine opening a jewelry box. As you carefully raise the lid, the most beautiful music you have ever heard begins to play. Peering inside, you see precious gemstones surrounding a polished strand of pearls against a black velvet lining. This isnt just any jewelry box. Its your spiritual jewelry box. Pearls are the foundational piece placed in our spiritual jewelry box. When you dont know what to pray, dont know how to pray, and dont even want to...
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This book provides the basic understanding of prayer with over 300 prayers, aiming to encourage and support people to be engaged in prayer, to grow in their prayer life and to develop their Christian character. These prayers are simple, inspired, and real as they are packed with Gods Word, cover Christian themes, and include all needs. The true desire of the author is that each prayer in the book will act like a catalyst to activate ones faith, enabling...
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