We experience Orthodox Joy most prayerfully and powerfully during the Divine Liturgy. Focusing on seven virtues, this book offers practical advice for our daily journey by calling us to strive towards living a different virtue every day. After receiving the Eucharist with a deep and abiding joy during Mass, our most joyful union and communion with God, we dedicate each day of the week to these virtues: Monday, Humility; Tuesday, Purity; Wednesday, Holiness; Thursday, Love; Friday, Longsuffering; Saturday, Prayer; and Sunday, our return to Joy: The Joy of Orthodoxy. Deacon David Lochbihler, J.D., celebrated The Joy of Orthodoxy on the day of his Diaconate Ordination during the Feast of Saint Patrick in 2019 at Saint Patrick Orthodox Church in Virginia. He also teaches fourth grade at The Fairfax Christian School in Northern Virginia. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, Deacon David worked as a Chicago attorney for three years before becoming a teacher and coach for three decades. He earned Master's degrees in Elementary Education, Biblical Studies, and Orthodox Theology. His varsity high school basketball and soccer teams captured four N.V.I.A.C. conference championships. Deacon David authored Prayers to Our Lady East and West in 2021.

You have an enemy... and he's dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What's more, his approach to disrupting your life and discrediting your faith isn't general or generic, not a one-size-fits-all. It's specific. Personalized. Targeted. So this book is your chance to strike back. With prayer. With a weapon that really works. Each chapter will guide you in crafting prayer strategies that hit the enemy where it hurts, letting him know you're on to him and that you won't back down. Because with every new strategy you build, you're turning the fiercest battles of life into precise strikes against him and his handiwork, each one infused with the power of God's Spirit. New York Times bestselling author Priscilla Shirer, widely known for her international speaking, teaching, and writing ministries, brings her new role from the 2015 film War Room into the real lives of today's women, addressing the topics that affect them most: renewing their passion , refocusing their identity , negotiating family strife, dealing with relentless regrets, navigating impossible schedules, succeeding against temptation, weathering their worst fears, uprooting bitterness and more. Each chapter exposes the enemy's cruel, crafty intentions in all kinds of these areas, then equips and encourages you to write out your own personalised prayer strategies on tear-out sheets you can post and pray over yourself and your loved ones on a regular basis. This is a hands-on, knees-down, don't-give-up action guide to practical, purposeful praying.

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying® series (more than 28 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.

In The Power of a Praying® Husband, you'll find the excitement and hope that come from inviting the God who hears and answers prayer into your marriage. Packed with real-life examples and refreshing honesty regarding her own marriage, Stormie encourages you to lovingly intercede for your wife in every area of her life, including her

• priorities
• emotions
• motherhood
• fears
• sexuality

Each chapter features comments from well-known Christian men, biblical wisdom, and prayer ideas. The warm and easy-to-read book includes a foreword by Stormie's husband, multi-Grammy winning music producer Michael Omartian. It's a resource that makes a great gift to husbands from wives and is also an excellent study for men's groups wanting to develop the discipline of prayer.

What Happens When Women Pray is a practical and biblical book about prayer. Its teachings have been tested in hundreds of prayer seminars all over the world, as both men and women have learned to pray in more personal and believing ways. What Happens When Women Pray will show you how to move into the dynamic that occurs when people pray. It just might change your life or the life of someone you know and love. Since 1968, Evelyn Christenson has led prayer seminars worldwide. Millions of readers have enjoyed Evelyn's books, which include, "Lord, Change Me" and "Praying God's Way." Evelyn lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

John Eldredge, autor best seller del New York Times ofrece una guia paso a paso hacia una oracion eficaz, una guia paso a paso a traves de diversas ocasiones en las que las oraciones pueden ser aplicadas, incluyendo el fundamento biblico que respalda "la tecnica", anecdotas alentadoras y modelos de oraciones. ?Por que unas oraciones funcionan y otras no? ?Como se sentiria orar con la confianza y la garantia de que Dios te escucha y que tus oraciones hacen una diferencia? John Eldredge ofrece una guia paso a paso hacia una oracion eficaz. Todos tenemos una razon para orar. Anhelamos ver que Dios conceda nuestras peticiones y las de nuestros seres amados. Sin embargo, algunas veces no lo hace, y entonces, ?donde nos deja esa situacion? ?Estamos haciendo algo mal? ?No nos escucha? ?Por que las oraciones de algunas personas parecen mas eficaces que las de otras? Entonces nos desanimamos y dejamos de lado la oracion, el arma misma que Dios nos ha dado para que no nos desanimemos. Si tienes algun interes en la oracion, necesitas oraciones que funcionen. Esa es la clase de oraciones que constituyen el tema de este libro. Cuando descubrimos que la oracion no consiste simplemente en pedirle a Dios que haga algo, sino que representa nuestra colaboracion con El, se abren ante nosotros nuevas posibilidades. No hay nada mas esperanzador que el pensamiento de que las cosas pueden ser diferentes, y de que tenemos un papel que desempenar en producir los cambios necesarios. Con Dios, podemos mover montanas. Mueve montanas te ensenara como experimentar el poder de la oracion, desde la intimidad de la oracion de escuchar, la oracion de sanidad interior y el "clamor del corazon", hasta la habilidad de las oraciones de intervencion, de consagracion y de guerra espiritual. Tu vida nunca sera la misma. Tampoco lo sera el mundo... gracias a tus oraciones. This book offers a step-by-step guide through a variety of prayer applications, including the biblical basis supporting the "technique," encouraging anecdotes, and model prayers. The disciples asked Jesus, "Teach us to pray!" Most Christians-most people for that matter-want to pray and do pray, but they don't feel confident in the process. This book offers a step-by-step guide through a variety of prayer applications, including the biblical basis supporting the "technique," encouraging anecdotes, and model prayers. John Eldredge has been teaching people how to pray for twenty years, and he has seen remarkable results. From experience, he knows what gets in the way of effective prayer and how to help people toward prayer that is truly effective. The book begins with a liberating reframing of what prayer is. Most Christians labor under the fundamental misconception that prayer is essentially "asking God to intervene." This assumption has led to untold confusion and grief, for many do ask but God does not seem to hear...or care. Whereas Jesus said to his disciples, "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" (Matt 16:19). When we operate from a position of our authority in Christ, we approach prayer with far greater confidence.

Since earliest times Christians have used pebbles, a string of knots, or beads on a cord to keep track of their prayers, and prayer beads can be found in virtually every major religious tradition in the world. Anglicans and other Protestants have also begun to use the rosary to help refresh a life of prayer--it creates a rhythm that helps wean us from our distractions and focus our attention so that we can more readily move into God's presence. As the beads and prayers recede into the background, the mysteries that make up the rosary come into our minds and hearts like religious pictures or icons. First published by Doubleday in 1975, J. Neville Ward's unusual collection of meditations offer an entirely new approach to the rosary for all Christians. He begins with its traditional use and then offers fifteen insights into the life of Jesus and his mother Mary that can speak to us today. Thus a meditation on the sorrowful themes reminds us of the suffering that is so much a part of our own lives, while the joyful and glorious mysteries speak of the desire for faith, hope, and love that will heal them. These reflections serve up a rich spiritual repast for Christians seeking new contemplative practices and learning to pray with the rosary.