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Dr. Joseph Murphy, the author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, wrote this book as a manual to teach people how to pray. He teaches how to maintain prayer as a part of one's everyday activity, as well as how to use prayer in the case of danger or an emergency. According to Murphy, prayer is an ever-present help in time of trouble, but you do not have to wait for trouble to make prayer an integral and constructive part of your life. People can...
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Listening and speaking to God.
Prayer is communication. It is not a formula that we have memorized, or an empty repetition of words and phrases, but our conversation with God–with us first speaking and then listening to what God has to say to us in return.
However, as Dr. Charles Stanley reveals in Deepening Your Prayer Life, our prayers go beyond mere human interaction in that it gives us access into the very
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High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position as a starter on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading Christian prayers during the games and enforcing teamwide participation.
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"This little book is explosive and powerful." R. Albert Mohler, Jr. When you pray, does it ever feel like you're just saying the same old things about the same old things? Offering us the encouragement and the practical advice we're all looking for, Donald S. Whitney, best-selling author of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, outlines an easy-to-grasp method that has the power to transform our prayer life: praying the words of Scripture....
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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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Written in the 16th century by a reform-minded Carmelite monk, Dark Night of the Soul is a treatise focusing on the metaphor of a dark night to represent a lonely phase in one's personal spiritual life. Saint John was a Roman Catholic mystic and a Spanish poet, and this work reflects his mystical stages toward union with God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker's journey...
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In Jerusalem, within the Shrine of the Book Museum, resides the Great Isaiah Scroll-the most precious artifact of the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. So valuable is this scripture that extraordinary measures have been taken to safeguard it against any natural disaster or act of war. Why is this single document, lost to humanity for more than 2,000 years, so crucial to modern scholars and mystics today? On The Isaiah Effect, bestselling author Gregg Braden...
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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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According to Joseph Murphy, the greatest prison in the world is the prison of the mind. on every page of this book, you will learn how to use a wonderful, magical, healing power which will bind up the wounds of the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and open the prison for those bound by fear, failure, misery, and pain. Throughout the book, Murphy describes his techniques.
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We were not created to just get by with average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling lives. God created us to leave our marks on our generations. Osteen provides practical steps and encouragement for creating a life without limitations.
Best-selling author Joel Osteen provides practical steps and encouragement for creating a life without limitations.
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This effective, powerful guide is organized into three months of daily prayers that will teach readers to pray Scripture back to God. Dr. Kenneth Boa's personalized adaptations of Scripture turn Bible passages into prayers that bring you face to face and heart to heart with God.
Face to Face: Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship offers daily prayers focused on:
• Adoration
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• Affirmation
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Power Through Prayer is one of EM Bounds many classic works on prayer. He is practical yet spiritual, challenging us to seek God in passionate and unrelenting prayer.
Christ did not come for the righteous but for the sinner and He calls us to pray like he did to the Father in a continual basis. Bounds in this work outlines what kind of heaven and earth shattering effects prayer can have from the individual person to the very ministry that someone...
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"Brothers, pray for us." (1 Thessalonians 5:25). The Apostle Paul's letters are filled with references to prayer -- requests for prayer from the churches, prayers for them, and teaching and encouragement that God was working through these prayers. Pastors and church leaders know that prayer is powerful and it must be a priority in any ministry, yet many pastors struggle to maintain an active prayer life. Even more difficult is the challenge of praying...
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Every Sunday, the Lord's Prayer echoes in churches around the world. It is an indisputable principle of Christian faith. It is the way Jesus taught his followers to pray and distills the most essential beliefs required of every one of the world's 2.5 billion Christians. In The Greatest Prayer, our foremost Jesus scholar explores this foundational prayer line by line for the richest and fullest understanding of a prayer every Christian knows by heart....
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Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).
How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English language
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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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The sisters of the Yada Yada Prayer Group are learning how to be real-with each other and with God.
After a particularly exhausting year with the Yada Yada Prayer Group, all Jodi Baxter wants is a break. She even asks God for a little "dull and boring" in the new year. Instead she finds that when you're open to His plans, life is unpredictable-in the best and hardest ways.
Jodi's life is suddenly full of changes, and they can be described as anything...
100) Devotion: a memoir
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"Devotion's biggest triumph is its voice: funny and unpretentious, concrete and earthy-appealing to skeptics and believers alike. This is a gripping, beautiful story." -Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep
"I was immensely moved by this elegant book." -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Dani Shapiro, the acclaimed author of the novel Black and White and the bestselling memoir Slow Motion, is back with Devotion: a searching and timeless new...
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