These 11 books on prayer will challenge your view of prayer, the church, and God. more than anything, they will strengthen your fervent prayer life in ways you can’t even imagine.
mandatory books on prayer for every Christian
- the hidden life of prayer by david mcintyre
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“as we come before the lord in prayer, we open our hearts to the holy spirit, we yield to the inner impulse and the divine energy dominates our being. Our plans, if we have formed them to the dictates of nature, are set aside, and God’s purpose in relation to our lives is accepted. as born of the spirit, let us be controlled by the spirit: “if we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.”
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“the world is not waiting for a new definition of the gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the gospel… the tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in pulpits giving too many dead sermons to too many dead people. oh! how awful!”
3. tim keller prayer
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“Prayer is wonder, intimacy, struggle, but the path to reality. there is nothing more important, or more difficult, or richer, or more life changing. there is absolutely nothing as great as prayer.”
4. the complete works of e.m. sentence limits
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“Men must do God’s work in God’s way and to God’s glory, and prayer is a necessity for its successful completion.”
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5. praying with paul for d.a. carson
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“all of us would be wiser if we decided never to look down on people, except on our prayer lists.”
6. a call to prayer for j.c. ryle
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“praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
7. a life of prayer by paul miller
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“The persistent widow and the midnight friend get access, not because they are strong but because they are desperate. learned despair is at the heart of a life of prayer.”
8. praying bible by donald whitney
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“I have learned to . . . Season my prayers with the word of God. It is a way of talking to God in his language: speaking his dialect, using his vernacular, employing his idioms. . . . this is not simply a matter of divine vocabulary. it is a question of power. When we bring the word of God directly into our prayer, we are bringing the power of God into our prayer.”
9. praying for j.i. packer
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“the more we appreciate the holy love of our god in christ, the more we realize how sinful we are, and the more we realize how sinful we are, the more we appreciate the holy love of the father, the son and the spirit, and then our prayer will be more real.”
10. the power of prayer and fasting by ronnie floyd
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“the central message of the new testament is that the power of god changes lives, transforms points of view, moves nations and turns people into new creatures.”
11. the valley of vision
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“I live here like a fish in a bowl of water, just enough to keep me alive, but in heaven I will swim in the ocean. here I have little air in me to keep me breathing, but there I will have sweet and fresh gales; here I have a ray of sun to illuminate my darkness, a warm ray so as not to freeze; there I will live in light and warmth forever.”
We’d love to hear if you’ve read any books on prayer that have changed your life. What books on prayer would you add to this list?
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