5 Things to Pray for Your Heart - Softcover

Rachel Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784982822 ISBN 13: 9781784982829

Publisher: The Good Book Company, 2018

Synopsis

Every Christian wants to be more like Jesus and, wonderfully, that's what God wants for us too: "It is God's will that you should be sanctified" (1 Thessalonians 4 v 3).

How will that happen? Only by asking God to transform us from the inside out because real heart change comes not by our own willpower, but by the Spirit's power.

Too often though our prayer lives are reduced to shopping list style requests or desperate pleas to get through the day. But this little guide will help you to pray for genuine, deep and astonishing Christian growth, in your own life or somebody else's. These are prayers your heavenly Father loves to answer because they're based on his word.

Each spread takes a passage of Scripture and suggests 5 things to pray for a particular area of your Christian life. Because when we pray in line with God's priorities as found in his word, our prayers are powerful and effective (James 5 v 16) and that's a truly thrilling prospect.

Use this book to:
Guide your prayers during your personal quiet times
Kick start your prayers for your own growth in godliness
Pray meaningfully for your Christian spouse, family members or friends
Equip your church small group members to pray for one another more deeply

Use this book in any number of ways: work through it as part of your daily quiet time, or pick it up whenever a particular need arises.

About this title

About the Author

Rachel Jones studied History at Manchester University and is now Staff Editor and Publicist at The Good Book Company. She is author of Five Things to Pray for Your Church and Five Things to Pray for the People you Love.

Review

The Puritan William Gurnall once said: Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed or God s word turned inside out and formed into an argument and retorted back again upon God by faith. It sounds great. But what does it look like in practice? 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love and 5 Things to Pray for Your Church answer that question. They ll walk you through using God s word in prayer. And praying God s word is my number one tip to help people invigorate their prayer life. So read these books and invigorate your prayers. --Tim Chester,Pastor of Grace Church, Boroughbridge, and author of You Can Pray (IVP)

Five Things is a brilliantly simple but hugely effective means of stimulating your prayer life for church, mission, family and friends. Accessible and attractive, with lots of Scripture to focus prayer, it will be a great tool for churches to help members to pray regularly and creatively --Trevor Archer,FIEC Training Director

I recommend this series to you on basis of the simple fact that they moved me to pray. They both showed me ways to pray for my church and my loved ones and they kindled in my heart a want to pray. These are simple books, with the modest and eternally profound aim to show how the Bible informs our prayers. Rachel Jones manages the difficult work in withdrawing from the picture and leaving the reader to see how simple it is to align our prayers with the will of our listening Father. These books could well be a cause of great blessing for your church and people you love. --John Hindley,Pastor of BroadGrace church Norfolk, and author of Serving Without Sinking and You Can Really Grow

About this edition

• Publisher: The Good Book Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784982822
• ISBN 13: 9781784982829
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96