Have you ever struggled with how to pray, what to pray for, or simply needed encouragement to keep praying? This collection of 312 daily readings on prayer will challenge and inspire you to make your communication with God more intimate and your relationship with Him stronger.
Written by some of the most respected authors on prayer from the last three centuries, these readings—enough for an entire year—are by:
• John Bunyan
• C. S. Lewis
• Elisabeth Elliot
• E. M. Bounds
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• And many more
Each devotion follows a biblical rhythm of prayer: Preparation/Examination/Confession/Worship/Request. In addition, weekend entries are powerful true stories and testimonies of God’s workings through prayer.
This inspirational collection is a must-have for pastors, prayer leaders, and believers who want to make their prayer lives richer and more personal.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was also a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, a founding member of the Confessing Church. His involvement in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler resulted in his arrest in April 1943 and his subsequent execution by hanging in April 1945, shortly before the war's end.
Overshadowed by his life and death, his theology and his view of Christianity's role in the secular world has nevertheless remained very influential.
He seems to have undergone something of a personal conversion from a theologian primarily attracted to the intellectual side of Christianity to a dedicated man of faith, resolved to carry out the teaching of Christ as he found it revealed in the Gospels.
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