Prayer Journey

Secrets to Powerful Prayer:

Discovering the Languages of the Heart
by Lynne Hammond & Patsy Cameneti

Praying effective prayers is one of the most thrilling and satisfying privileges in the Christian life. But most of us have discovered that there is more to praying powerful prayers than just blurting out, “God help me!” in every situation. There are scriptural principles and divine precepts we must learn if we want to pray the kinds of prayers we see in the Bible. In this book, Lynne Hammond and Patsy Cameneti share some of what they’ve learned about the different kinds of prayer, how to pray them and when they are most effective. They teach you how to maintain your childlike faith in your heavenly Father while growing up into a mature child of God who can receive what you ask for every single time.

Praying Up a Storm

by Daniel Bernard

The worldwide prayer movement is ushering in revival and the prophetic and spiritual forecast for the cities of America and the world is rain…the latter rain of Christ’s presence that will bring the end time harvest. Praying Up a Storm scripturally details how the physical water cycle is a representation of what happens when we pray, with the end result being a great outpouring of God’s Spirit in the land. The parallel between the physical water cycle and the spiritual prayer cycle is a constant reminder to pray and a constant faith builder of what is happening as we pray.

A study guide goes with each chapter helping to make it user friendly for small groups and practical application to the reader. Daniel Bernard has not only received a revelation of prayer for these times but has seen the revelation take on flesh and blood through the church community of greater Tampa Bay bearing God-sized results. Find out how God desires to give the latter rain of his manifest presence. You’ll read about where it is raining and has rained, giving hope for those in a dry land or season in their lives. Find out what is holding back the outpouring of God’s presence in your neighborhood and community and how to successfully appeal to God to remove them.

"If you desire to saturate your life and community with God's presence and power, Praying Up a Storm is a must read."—Pastor Paula White, Without Walls International Church

"Daniel Bernard's Praying Up a Storm provides fresh insight on how to walk in praying authority with a cutting edge."—Dr. Che Ahn, Pastor, Harvest Rock Church

A Call to Spiritual Reformation:
Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
by D. A. Carson

The greatest need for churches today is a deeper knowledge of God.

God doesn't demand hectic church programs and frenetic schedules, He only wants His people to know Him more intimately. The apostle Paul found that spiritual closeness in his own fellowship with the Father. A Call to Spiritual Reformation investigates the Epistles to see what lessons Paul taught in his "school of prayer."

Christians today can still achieve the confidence Paul enjoyed by following his life-shaping principles and searching for a deeper devotional experience.

Everything by Prayer by Fred Hartley
Armin Gesswein's Keys to Spirit-Filled Living

Alive with practical encouragement, this book will change your prayer life!

Armin Gesswein was the pioneer of the modern prayer movement and started the prayer ministry that launched the Billy Graham evangelistic crusades in Los Angeles. He was a mentor and inspiration to many of the great Christian leaders of our generation, including Billy Graham, Bill Bright and David Bryant. Everything by Prayer: Armin Gesswien's Keys to Spirit-Filled Living is not only a biography but also a resource that will help you develop and improve your prayer life and bring revival to our land.

"Reading about Armin's commitment to prayer will challenge you, as his life always challenged me."—Billy Graham

"In this marvelous book, Fred Hartley presents to us not only Armin's powerful teachings on prayer, but also clear evidence that he practiced what he preached."—Bill Bright

"You can't walk away from Everything by Prayer without being sold on one of the greatest of all 'Arminisms': 'Prayer must be frontal, not peripheral.'"—David Bryant

Legacy of Prayer by Jennifer Kennedy Dean
A Spiritual Trust Fund for the Generations

Your prayers can bring God's intervention into the future circumstances of your children and their descendants for generations to come. Prayer is not merely a tradition to pass down, but a time-transcendent power that dramatically transforms the hearts and lives of your children and generations after them. Author Jennifer Kennedy Dean shows through Scripture that God has initiated a covenant with believers to cover their children, and prayer is the conduit that brings the power of that covenant into the circumstances of the earth.

For those with unsaved or prodigal children, the end of the story has not yet been told. As Dean notes, "Prayer is so effective that when our children are away from us, we can continue to parent them through our prayers. Our prayers are more powerful even than our presence."

Though the world around your children may crumble, you can leave them a legacy that will never pass away.

Long Wandering Prayer by David Hansen
An Invitation to Walk With God

Many of us experience guilt and frustration about our prayer lives. We want to pray. We want to experience God's presence. But we easily get bored or irritated with our wandering minds. Here's what David Hansen has to say about extended times of prayer.

"Long wandering prayer involves leaving our normal environment for the express purpose of spending several hours with God alone, but not secluded. It involves walking, or at least moving, so that we can stop at any time and consider a lily for an unpredictable length of time. It is mental wandering in the presence of God. Long wandering prayer uses the fact that our minds wander as an advantage to prayer rather than as a disadvantage. In long wandering prayer we frankly recognize that what we want to pray about may not be what God wants us to pray about and that our obsessive drive to control our minds in the presence of God—to pray about one thing or stick to one list—may be a form of hiding from God."

"A few hours with Dave Hansen in this book expands our sense of prayer exponentially. The time and space and will to pray that we always thought we lacked, suddenly are there, here."—Eugene Peterson, author of The Message

"In the Middle Ages the church was blessed with wandering scholars and wandering saints who shaped the Christian faith by walking along hidden pathways and untrodden trails. Now comes a perambulating evangelical pastor, Dave Hansen, who teaches us to pray as we walk and listen as well as talk to the God who meets us in silence as well as sound at every turn of life's road. This is a handbook for the soul's wandering journey to God. 'Take it and read!'"—Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University

Prayer by Richard J. Foster
Finding the Heart's True Home

Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms—from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. He shows how prayer can move us unward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. He leads us beyond questions to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing us closer to God, to ourselves, and to our community.

Beginning to Pray by Anthony Bloom

Enchanting in its simplicity, book offers practical guidelines for personal prayer life. In exemplary way author prepares the reader for establishing a live personal contact with God through prayer. His rich background (Bloom is an Orthodox Archbishop) combined with previous life experiences (surgeon physician during the time of II World War) offers astonishing depth combined with life applicable illustrations of the process of building a personal prayer life.

Answering God by Eugene H. Peterson
The Psalms As Tools for Prayer

Eugene Peterson speaks to Christians who realize the necessity for prayer and yearn for it but who find their prayer unconvincing and unsatisfying. Addressing the causes of this dissatisfaction, Answering God offers guidelines using the Psalms. 

Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets
How God Can Use Your Prayers to Move Heaven and Earth

If you've ever felt that your prayers don't count, Intercessory Prayer will show you just how vital your prayers are. Pastor and teacher Dutch Sheets explains the nuts and bolts of prayer with wisdom, gentleness and humor. This book will inspire you, give you the courage to pray for the "impossible" and help you find the persistence to see your prayers to completion. Discover your role as a prayer warrior.

Prayers from the Heart by Richard J. Foster

"My whole life, in one sense, has been an experiment in how to be a portable sanctuary," writes Richard Foster, "learning to practice the presence of God in the midst of the stresses and strains of contemporary life." Foster presents this collection of prayers according to the three aspects of the human journey: looking inward to the heart, reaching upward toward God, and moving outward to care for others. These prayers speak to the moments in our days and in our lives.

Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton

This is Thomas Merton at his contemplative best, applying ancient wisdom to the longings of our age through his thoughtful commentary on Scripture and important writers of the Western spiritual tradition.