Synopsis
This original approach to prayer shows how it leads us to the powerful freedom that is ours in Christ. Honorary National Day of Prayer chairman Oliver North illustrates the freeing effects of prayer through engaging stories and scriptural truths. Seven key points describe how prayer helps us escape disconnectedness, anxiety, and sin - and frees us to hear God's voice and to become what we were meant to be. With the powerful biblical concept of freedom in their minds and hearts, readers will come away motivated as never before to spend time with God in prayer.
Do you see prayer as a burden? Does it tie up your time? Take another look. Prayer may be your way out of captivity. Sharing his personal experiences and the engaging stories of others, LtCol Oliver L. North USMC (Ret.) uses scriptural truths to illustrate the powerful liberating effects of prayer.
As you escape isolation, deception, anxiety, and sin in your own life, you’ll find freedom to fulfill God’s great purpose for you.
Story Behind the Book
Oliver North opens with his personal testimony of coming to faith, a faith that begins with prayer. A personal relationship with Christ is the basis for all other aspects of prayer. The book will feature a series of stories illustrating the liberating benefits of prayer. The summary concludes that none of the other aspects of prayer are important without this personal relationship. The reader would be invited to enter into a relationship with Christ through prayer in the concluding chapter. The message is built upon seven key points, each of which connects and blends the powerful biblical concepts of freedom and prayer
About the Author
Oliver North
Oliver North is a combat decorated marine, a #1 best-selling author, the founder of a small business, an inventor with three U.S. patents, a syndicated newspaper columnist and the host of the weekly television series, War Stories on the FOX News channel. Colonel North is married and has four children.
Brian Smith
Brian Smith has provided fifteen years of pastoral oversight to small groups at Good Shepherd Community Church in the Gresham , Oregon . He has written dozens of home Bible study guides. Smith graduated from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland , Oregon , with his Master of Divinity in 1988, and has recently completed more than half of the work toward his Master of Theology, focusing on biblical and theological studies. He lives in Gresham with his wife Susan and their four children.
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