Drawing on the "Parable of the Sower" (Mark 4:1-20) this study explores how the Holy Spirit cultivates our hearts - unseating the rocks of distraction, uprooting the thorns and thistles of the world, and planting the seed of faith. This six-week study includes daily prayer exercises and small group sessions to help deepen your prayer life and strengthen your daily discipline of prayer and Bible reading. Help emphasize the importance of prayer for new or existing prayer groups.

Grieving invites the reader to understand the universality of grief, its various expressions, and the depth of emotion experienced within it. In grieving the loss of loved ones, jobs, reputations, and numerous other things, we may begin to doubt the faith that has upheld us throughout our trials. In doubting, though, we open ourselves to further growth by inviting God to share our pain and sorrow and to help us in renewing ourselves in Him.

In the first part of this guide, called "The Retreat," author J. Catherine Sherman offers a deeper understanding of the painful emotions that develop as part of grief, the facets of the journey through the grieving process, and the acceptance that our anger at God may be more typical than we realize. The second part, called "The Journey," presents an examination of the process of grieving, moving through anger, doubt, trust, and eventual surrender to the situation as it stands. Depicted in vivid imagery, these passages transport readers to a place of meditative exploration of grief.

Through thoughtful reflections and resolutions, we are able to take steps into understanding the struggle while moving beyond the initial anger with God or doubt of His love for us and our loved ones.

Filled with more than fifty prayers and blessings for almost every situation in our daily lives, The Book of Light is created for the Christian on the go. It's also great for new Christians looking to build an active prayer life or for those who simply need encouraging during challenging times. Prayers and blessings inspired by Scripture are a sure way to let the Word of God do the work in your life.

Imagine opening a jewelry box. As you carefully raise the lid, the most beautiful music you have ever heard begins to play. Peering inside, you see precious gemstones surrounding a polished strand of pearls against a black velvet lining. This isn't just any jewelry box. It's your spiritual jewelry box. Pearls are the foundational piece placed in our spiritual jewelry box. When you don't know what to pray, don't know how to pray, and don't even want to pray, you can open your jewelry box and pull out Pearls.

In the same way an oyster covers an irritant in its shell with a substance called nacre, producing a pearl, we can coat the issues in our lives with the nacre of prayer and also produce pearls. Pearls outlines five essentials for a richer prayer life, focusing on how Jesus' words, "it is better to give than to receive," relate to prayer. These words are often related to our money, our time, or our service. Pearls takes a step further and shows how giving to God through prayer in five areas enriches your prayer life and draws you into a closer relationship with Him.

Pearls is about praying. It provides a fresh look at a subject that will never grow old.

Dwight Lyman Moody defines a Prevailing Prayer as one which involves the entire being of the person praying: the entirety of the mind is focused not upon material or life circumstances, but the very being of God. Such an effort to pray so deeply is difficult: Moody, himself an experienced evangelist and preacher, had encountered many Christians who struggled to attain depth and connection with the Lord during their prayers. This book intends to help the true believer attain a material closeness to the divine through prayer which prevails. It is ideal for devotional reading before and after your daily prayers, that the insights within remain in mind. To help his fellow believers, Moody quotes numerous stories from the Biblical scriptures together with personal anecdotes from his long career as a man of God. We also hear of incidents in the life of Jesus Christ, and the many obstacles He surmounted to teach humanity of God.

When seeking guidance you need not look any further than the bible. Praying scripture is a simple way to pray when we are struggling with finding the right words. In this book you will find scripture verses for guidance along with a prayer for each verse. As you read each verse and say each prayer remember to keep the Lord on your mind, on your lips and in your heart.

For author Brenda Stanford Southerland, honoring the Father through prayer is more valuable than gold or silver, and it truly yields precious rewards. In "Honoring the Father through Prayer," she presents a guided study of the book of Isaiah to show how prayers can greatly impact the lives of Christians.

The book of Isaiah, often referred to as the mini-Bible with its sixty-six chapters, demonstrates the importance of prayer and studying Isaiah yields rich fruit. With emphasis on biblical examples, Brenda helps Christians by delivering a model for prayer. Her model: teaches about Isaiah the man, a prophet of God provides a perspective on Israel's historical background-national and international discusses the prophecy of Babylonian exile explores God's grace through divine deliverance and restoration delivers a true perspective on prayer as it relates to honoring God, focusing on God as the Father, and describes the prayer guidelines that are divine instructions to create a practical method of daily prayer.

In "Honoring the Father through Prayer," Brenda helps Christians focus on God and facilitates a more meaningful prayer life to change lives and deepen relationships with God.

What is Prayer? Is it mere superstition, or is it verifiable as the fact that water wets and fire burns? Neville set out to answer this question for himself. You can read it in an hour, but you will remember PRAYER: The Art of Believing for the rest of your life.

Are you tired of your prayers lacking power? Would you like them to be authoritative and prevailing instead? If you're ready for a revitalized prayer life that illustrates the marvelous capability of your Christian walk, then "God Delights in the Prayers of His Children" can help you get there.

This collection of faith-building prayers is a powerful resource, designed to encourage believers to communicate intimately with God. Author Terri Flynn shows you how to enrich your prayer life by providing prayers that incorporate Scripture to help you pray with purpose and confidence. She targets specific prayer needs for children, family, finances, healing, deliverance, strength, encouragement, and much more.

Flynn shares her spiritual experiences by using devotional prayers and commentary to illustrate how to have a personal relationship with God. She explores some of the doubts, fears, and perplexities we experience and offers prayers that address these issues. In addition, she reveals the four basic elements of prayer, as well as methods for establishing a prayer life and interceding with power.

If you desire an intimate relationship with God, "God Delights in the Prayers of His Children" provides a foundation to help you develop a life-changing commitment to prayer. Connect your spirit to the knowledge of God's Word through prayer and see Him work in your life

Sobre la base de su trabajo innovador que une la oracion y la salud, el reconocido autor y medico Larry Dossey ofrece nuevas maneras de mirar a la oracion y nos dice como pueden aprovechar sus notables poderes curativos. No importa que forma toma su fe, La oracion es buena medicina le inspirara una nueva apreciacion de como la oracion puede lograr un cambio saludable - y le dara las herramientas para que esto ocurra.