Prayer

Simple, Believing Prayer
The Joy of Believing in Prayer: Deepen Your Friendship with God
by Joyce Meyer
For many years I was dissatisfied with my prayer life. I was committed to praying every morning, but I always felt something was missing. I finally asked God what was wrong, and He responded in my heart by saying, Joyce, you don't feel that your prayers

Why I Wrote This Book
Praying for Recovery, Psalms and Meditations
by Eli Ezry
It has been said that all addiction is search for God, though addicts unfortunately search in the wrong places - whether in alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, pornography, or work, or in another person, through codependency, sex, or love.

Fasting and Prayer Are for the Church Today
The Power of Prayer and Fasting: 21 Days That Can Change Your Life
by Marilyn Hickey
Many believe prayer combined with fasting is an archaic discipline practiced only by early believers. Yet together, prayer and fasting form a powerful tool, says Bible teacher Marilyn Hickey, for helping us to overcome evil, achieve wholeness

Heartfelt Sincerity and God's Reward
The Power of Prayer and Fasting: 21 Days That Can Change Your Life
by Marilyn Hickey
Jesus clearly taught His disciples that fasting was to be a very private matter between a person and the Lord. This does not mean that a group of people cannot agree together to fast and pray about a particular matter, or that a church cannot declare

A Prayer Each Day
A Treasury of Adoption Miracles : True Stories of God's Presence Today
by Karen Kingsbury
Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury continues her Miracles series with this collection of twelve true stories illustrating the presence of God in adoption. Brought Together by a Miracle. A Manhattan social worker receives a new case-a three-year-old girl

Daily Prayer
Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration
by Naomi Levy
Daily prayer is the hardest form of prayer. It's natural to turn to God when things go wrong-when you are in pain or when you are frightened or depressed. It's easy to turn to God in times of joy-at a birth or a wedding, or on a holiday.

Lord, Teach Me
The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything
by Joyce Meyer
Have you ever really considered what prayer is and why you pray? Do you understand just how your prayer impacts your life? Joyce unravels the mystery of talking with God by explaining and exploring the different types of prayer

Words from the Author, Advent Prayer
He Started the Whole World Singing: A Treasury of Gaither Christmas Songs, Reflections, and Holiday Traditions
by Gloria Gaither
Christmas (the Mass of Christ) is a holy celebration of the most holy event in the history of the world. This God whose holiness forbade even the utterance of His name, this awesome Creator, chose to invade our planet in this galaxy so that we could

I Wish I Could Believe: God, Show Me That You Exist
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems
by Anthony DeStefano
There have been thousands of books written about prayer and millions of sermons preached about it, yet people continue to wonder: Why doesn't God answer me when I cry out to him?

Why Should I Pray?
Adventures in Prayer: Praying Your Way to a God You Can Trust
by Rev. Sharon Connors
Prayer makes one master in the realm of creative ideas. -Charles Fillmore. Prayer helps us contact sources of inspiration and wisdom that transcend the rational, analytical side of the mind. Prayer provides a sense of hope and meaning - the certainty that

From Egypt to Rome
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
'It is difficult to imagine,' wrote Mircea Eliade, 'how the human mind could function without the conviction that there is something irreducibly real in the world.' A prolific historian of religious ideas, Eliade demonstrated in more than fifty scholarly

Daily Prayer, Part 2
Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration
by Naomi Levy
Be with me, God. I feel so lost. I can't seem to escape the dark cloud that is hanging over me today. Help me, God. Give me strength to combat despair and fear. Show me how to put my pain into perspective.

Reader's Guide
Adventures in Prayer: Praying Your Way to a God You Can Trust
by Rev. Sharon Connors
Key Ideas: 1. Prayer is our connection to the realm of the divine in a way that accesses the infinite resources of God. 2. There is not a right or wrong way to pray. Seeking God is prayer. Yet, because of the nature of God and the power of thought, ther

Timely and Timeless
The Rosary
by Garry Wills
For Catholics who grew up before the Second Vatican Council, saying the rosary, privately or with others, was a regular part of our lives. But in recent years the rosary has come to be stigmatized, precisely, as 'preconciliar' - as theologically

Beginnings
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
by Sophy Burnham
If you were born without knowing anything at all about prayer, do you think that you would pray? I say yes. I think it's integral to the human heart; we cannot help ourselves. We think. We pray.

Prayer as the Expression of Personal Religion
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
Considered independently of specific cultural forms, traditions, doctrines and rituals, religion in general may be described as the inner awareness of an ultimate Reality beyond the self and beyond the human.

Confessions, Confusions
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
by Sophy Burnham
Praying was a duty, like wearing clean underclothes. 'Make sure you have on clean underwear in case you're in an accident,' she would say; and, while remembering the advise I wonder, Did she say the same thing to my brother, or was this admonition

Introduction, Part 1
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
Faith, I suggested in The Hidden Jesus, is primarily an attitude about reality - a refusal to admit that life has no meaning and that everything is doomed to extinction; faith then involves a willingness to wonder, to ask questions rather than simply

From Egypt to Rome, Part 2
In Silence. Why We Pray
by Donald Spoto
The custom of offering spontaneous prayers to nature gods in the temples of Mayan, Aztec and Incan civilizations is well attested; here as in Egypt, religious iconography included colorful representations of the sun, and the practice of mummifying dead

Confessions, Confusions, Part 2
The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives
by Sophy Burnham
When I was in trouble, I would slip into the dusky, trembling silence of an empty church to kneel in a pew, hands folded. I would pour out my heart to a God I did not believe in-or even like, if you consider the historical personage.