Archive for the 'Prayer' Category
Mark A. Weathers. How to Pray for Your Wife: A 31-Day Guide. Crossway, 2006. 158 pp.
Introduction
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
—Genesis 2:24
I see a unique tree every day while traveling to the church building where I minister. It’s a dogwood, and for the majority of the year it looks like any other dogwood in the southeast—slender divided trunk with a bushy green top. But this past spring it caught me off guard as it was coming into full bloom. The tree boasted of both white and pink blossoms intermingled throughout its branches.
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Bryan Chapell. Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus’ Name. Baker, 2005. 208 pp.
Praying for Change
How would your prayer change if you began where you normally end? We habitually end our prayers with the phrase “In Jesus’ name, amen.” The amen means “truly” or even “I really mean this.” But what are we actually saying? We are supposed to be saying that everything we prayed for was offered “in Jesus’ name”—for his honor and purposes. When we pray “in Jesus’ name,” we pray for his sake more than our own. We still present our desires and concerns to God, but we do so in the context of yielding our priorities to Christ’s priorities. The final phrase of our prayer reminds us, as well as commits us, to submit all our requests to the glory of Jesus.
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Arthur Bennett. The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions. Banner of Truth, 1983. 223 pp.
These prayers are drawn from the largely forgotten deposit of Puritan spiritual exercises, meditations and aspirations. They testify to the richness and colour of evangelical thought and language that animated vital piety in an important stream of English religious life. It is hoped that their publication will help to redress the neglect of this vast ocean of Puritan spirituality. . . .
The book is not intended to be read as a prayer manual. The soul learns to pray by praying; for prayer is communion with a transcendent and immanent God who on the ground of his nature and attributes calls forth all the powers of the redeemed soul in acts of total adoration and dedication.
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Dutch Sheets. Authority in Prayer: Praying with Power and Purpose. Bethany House, 2007. 192 pp.
Are you ready to use your God-given authority to further His kingdom?
A few years ago I was given a double-billed cap with one bill pointing to the left, the other to the right. The words on the front of the cap, “I’m the leader, which way did they go?” are intended to prompt the obvious question, “Who, really, is in charge?” I loved the humor in spite of the not-so-subtle and obviously asinine aspersion it cast on my leadership skills.
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Larry Crabb. The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You’ve Never Prayed. Thomas Nelson, 2006. 224 pp.
My father always called his father Papa. He lost his papa when he was five years old. When he would tell me what he remembered of his papa in the five years he knew him, Dad’s eyes would turn away from me, and he would speak as one happily lost in a better world. It was the same look that came over him when he prayed. I didn’t understand that look until recently.
I never remember my dad referring to his father as “Father” or “Dad” or “Daddy.” It was always “Papa.”
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