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A praying life : connecting with God in a distracting world / Paul E. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Colorado Springs, Colorado : NavPress, (c)2009.Description: 279 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781600063008
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BV210 .P739 2009
  • BV210
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Contents:
Where we are headed -- Part one : learning to pray like a child -- Become like a little child -- Learn to talk with your Father -- Spending time with your Father -- Learning to be helpless -- Crying "Abba"- continuously -- Bending your heart to your Father -- Part two : learning to trust again -- Understanding cynicism -- Following Jesus out of cynicism -- Developing an eye for Jesus -- Part three : learning to ask your Father -- Why asking is so hard -- Why we can ask -- How personal is God? -- What do we do with Jesus' extravagant promises about prayer? -- What we don't ask for : "our daily bread" -- What we don't ask for : "Your kingdom come" -- Surrender completely : "Your will be done" -- Part four : living in your Father's story -- Watching a story unfold -- A Father's love -- Unanswered prayer -- understanding the patterns of story -- How God places Himself in the story -- Praying without a story -- Hope : the end of the story -- Living in Gospel stories -- Part five : praying in real life -- Using prayer tools -- Keeping track of the story : using prayer cards -- Prayer work -- Listening to God -- Prayer journaling : become aware of the interior journey -- Real -- life praying -- Unfinished stories.
Subject: Let's face it, prayer is hard! In fact, prayer is so hard that most of us simply do not pray unless an illness or a public setting, such as saying grace at a meal, demands it. Prayerlessness is rooted in a core unbelief that can shape our lives, even as Christians. Because of prayerlessness, our lives are often marked by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual lethargy. If prayerlessness marks your life more often than not, then this book is for you. Basing the text on the popular PrayerLife seminar, which has encouraged thousands of Christians to a vibrant prayer life, Paul Miller writes to the heart of the matter. This is, indeed, the book for any Christian who wants to know the joy and power of a vibrant prayer life.
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Foreword by David Powlison.

Introduction : "what good does it do?" -- Where we are headed -- Part one : learning to pray like a child -- Become like a little child -- Learn to talk with your Father -- Spending time with your Father -- Learning to be helpless -- Crying "Abba"- continuously -- Bending your heart to your Father -- Part two : learning to trust again -- Understanding cynicism -- Following Jesus out of cynicism -- Developing an eye for Jesus -- Part three : learning to ask your Father -- Why asking is so hard -- Why we can ask -- How personal is God? -- What do we do with Jesus' extravagant promises about prayer? -- What we don't ask for : "our daily bread" -- What we don't ask for : "Your kingdom come" -- Surrender completely : "Your will be done" -- Part four : living in your Father's story -- Watching a story unfold -- A Father's love -- Unanswered prayer -- understanding the patterns of story -- How God places Himself in the story -- Praying without a story -- Hope : the end of the story -- Living in Gospel stories -- Part five : praying in real life -- Using prayer tools -- Keeping track of the story : using prayer cards -- Prayer work -- Listening to God -- Prayer journaling : become aware of the interior journey -- Real -- life praying -- Unfinished stories.

Let's face it, prayer is hard! In fact, prayer is so hard that most of us simply do not pray unless an illness or a public setting, such as saying grace at a meal, demands it. Prayerlessness is rooted in a core unbelief that can shape our lives, even as Christians. Because of prayerlessness, our lives are often marked by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual lethargy. If prayerlessness marks your life more often than not, then this book is for you. Basing the text on the popular PrayerLife seminar, which has encouraged thousands of Christians to a vibrant prayer life, Paul Miller writes to the heart of the matter. This is, indeed, the book for any Christian who wants to know the joy and power of a vibrant prayer life.

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