TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Paul E. TI - A praying life: connecting with God in a distracting world SN - 9781631466830 AV - BV210.3.M649.P739 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Colorado Springs, CO PB - NavPress KW - Prayer KW - Christianity KW - Spiritual life N1 - "Previous edition published in 2009"--Title page verso; "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 --; Hebrew laments : relearning desert praying --; Understanding how laments work --; 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 : becoming aware of the interior journey --; Real-life praying --; Unfinished stories N2 - Prayer is simply you --; Prayer is so hard that unless circumstances demand it an illness, or saying grace at a meal most of us simply do not pray. We prize accomplishments and productivity over time in prayer. Even Christians experience this prayerlessness a kind of practical unbelief that leaves us marked by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual lethargy. Prayer is all about relationship. Based on the popular seminar by the same name, A Praying Life has discipled thousands of Christians to a vibrant prayer life full of joy and power. When Jesus describes the intimacy He seeks with us, He talks about joining us for dinner. A Praying Life feels like having dinner with good friends. It is the way we experience and connect to God. In A Praying Life, author Paul Miller lays out a pattern for living in relationship with God and includes helpful habits and approaches to prayer that enable us to return to a childlike faith ER -