Pete Greig is a worldwide authority and the face of a generation when it
comes to prayer. One of the founders of the 24-7 prayer movement, he
has seen, experienced, and chronicled amazing works of God in the world.
While you might imagine him to be puffed up, Pete Greig is entirely the
opposite. He is enchanting, down-to-earth, friendly, and most of all,
very normal–and yet he tells preposterous tales about prayer (and
they’re true). He is basically a regular dude who loves to talk with
God.
How to Pray is written to evoke a passion for prayer in everyone—the committed follower of Jesus as well as the skeptic and the scared. The enormous blessing of How to Pray is that it is accessible, full of surprising stories of answered prayer, and tremendously engaging. The basic idea is that prayer is a conversation between you and God. Pete Greig demystifies and reenchants prayer, helping you to find prayer achievable and enjoyable, and ultimately life-giving and life-changing.
How to Pray is written to evoke a passion for prayer in everyone—the committed follower of Jesus as well as the skeptic and the scared. The enormous blessing of How to Pray is that it is accessible, full of surprising stories of answered prayer, and tremendously engaging. The basic idea is that prayer is a conversation between you and God. Pete Greig demystifies and reenchants prayer, helping you to find prayer achievable and enjoyable, and ultimately life-giving and life-changing.
How to Pray is designed to be used together with The Prayer Course (a free video curriculum associated with the Alpha course), making it useful for personal and group or church-wide reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Prayer Everywhere: Why Pray?
- Keeping It Simple: Starting Out in Prayer
- Slowing and Centering: How to Be Still before God
- Adoration: How to Worship God
- Petition: How to Worship God
- Intercession: How to Ask God for Others
- Unanswered Prayer: How to Deal with Disappointment
- Contemplation: How to Pray without Words
- Listening: How to Hear God
- Confession and Reconciliation: How to Get Right with God
- Spiritual Warfare: How to Exercise Spiritual Authority
- Amen
How to Use This Book with The Prayer Course
Toolshed: Index of Thirty Prayer Tools
Hero of Simple Prayer: Susanna Wesley - England
Heroes of Slowing and Centering: The Desert Fathers and Mothers - Egypt
Hero of Adoration: Brother Lawrence - France
Hero of Petition: Corrie ten Boom - Holland
Hero of Intercession: Count Zinzendorf - Germany
Hero of Unanswered Prayer: Joni Eareckson Tada - America
Hero of Contemplation: Blaise Pascal - France
Hero of Listening: Amy Carmichael - India
Hero of Confession & Reconciliation: Desmond Tutu - South Africa
Hero of Spiritual Warfare: Saint Patrick - Ireland
