Prayer

As the list of recommended resources given below demonstrates, prayer, or perhaps its lack, is a regular concern for the church throughout her generations. Few of us think we pray often enough. All of us confess that our prayers are too easily distracted and are flawed in a thousand other ways. But prayer is the life of the Christian. We cannot live apart from fellowship with the Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And we do not fully experience that fellowship in this life apart from prayer.

Prayer is a discipline. It is a habit. Regular, faithful prayer can be nurtured by attention and discipline. It can be wilted by inattention. As with any good habit, we must labor to develop good disciplines of prayer.

Prayer is often considered and discussed as something done in private. And private prayer is indeed important and valuable. Our Lord taught us to go to our closets to pray. And yet, there is also ample testimony in Scripture to the value and virtue of corporate prayer. When we gather as families and as the Body of Christ in worship we are not a collection of autonomous individuals. We are members of one another corporately and so we need to emphasize developing the disciplines of corporate prayer too.

One of the chief ways of cultivating healthy prayer is by reading the lives of men who prayed well and by emulating their prayers, when they have been recorded for us. The resources below are a rich treasure, full of value and encouragement.

It's time to pray like we mean it.

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
(Is. 55:6-7)

"My heart says of you, ‘Seek his face!’ Your face, LORD, I will seek." (Ps. 27:8)

"Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you." (Hos.10:12)

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chr. 7:14)

"Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." (Col 4:2)

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." (Phil 4:6)

"One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."John Piper
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Be Thou My Vision
by Jonathan Gibson
from Crossway Books
for 6th-Adult
in Devotionals (Location: XCL-DEV)
Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer
by E. M. Bounds
from Baker Books
for 10th-Adult
in Prayer (Location: XCL-PRAY)
Every Moment Holy Prayer Journal
from Rabbit Room Press
for 6th-Adult
in Family Worship (Location: BIB-FAWO)
$21.24
Every Moment Holy Volume 1
by Douglas Kaine McKelvey, illustrated by Ned Bustard
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Every Moment Holy Volume 1 (Pocketsize Edition)
by Douglas McKelvey, Illustrated by Ned Bustard
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in Family Worship (Location: BIB-FAWO)
$21.24
Every Moment Holy Volume 2
by Douglas McKelvey, Illustrated by Ned Bustard
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$29.74
Every Moment Holy Volume 2 (Pocketsize Edition)
by Douglas McKelvey, Illustrated by Ned Bustard
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Every Moment Holy Volume 3
by Douglas McKelvey and Pete Peterson (editors), Art Direction by Ned Bustard
from Rabbit Room Press
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$29.74
Every Moment Holy Volume 3 (Pocketsize Edition) (August 2024)
by Douglas McKelvey and Pete Peterson (editors), Art Direction by Ned Bustard
from Rabbit Room Press
for 6th-Adult
in Family Worship (Location: BIB-FAWO)
$21.24
Heart of Prayer
by Jerram Barrs
from P&R Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Prayer (Location: XCL-PRAY)
Hunger for God
by John Piper
from Crossway Books
for 10th-Adult
in Prayer (Location: XCL-PRAY)
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
by C. S. Lewis
Reissue from HarperCollins
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$13.99
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
by Jonathan Gibson
from Crossway Books
for 6th-Adult
in Devotionals (Location: XCL-DEV)
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
by Jonathan Gibson
from Crossway Books
for 6th-Adult
in Devotionals (Location: XCL-DEV)
$26.40
Operation World
by Jason Mandryk, Patrick & Robin Johnstone
7th edition from Biblica Publishing
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$15.00 (2 in stock)
Operation World
by Jason Mandryk, Patrick & Robyn Johnstone
7th edition from InterVarsity Press
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$25.00
Prayer
by Timothy J. Keller
from Dutton Adult
for 11th-Adult
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$18.00
Prayer
Puritan Paperbacks #9
by John Bunyan
from Banner of Truth Trust
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$6.80
Prayer of the Lord
by R.C. Sproul
from Reformation Trust Publishing
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in Prayer (Location: XCL-PRAY)
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Praying through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window
2nd edition from YWAM Publishing
for 4th-Adult
in Prayer (Location: XCL-PRAY)
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Secret Key to Heaven
by Thomas Brooks
from Banner of Truth Trust
in Puritan Writings (Location: XCH-PUR)
Short Method of Prayer
by Madame Guyon
from Hendrickson Publishers
for 11th-Adult
in Hendrickson Christian Classics (Location: XCL-DEV)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Twin Pillars of the Christian Life
by Dr. Wayne Mack & Joshua Mack
from Grace & Truth Books
Formal Poetry for 10th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Valley of Vision
by Arthur Bennett (editor)
from Banner of Truth Trust
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$14.45
With Christ in the School of Prayer
by Andrew Murray
from Hendrickson Publishers
for 10th-Adult
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Woman After God's Own Heart
by Elizabeth George
1St Edition from Harvest House
for 10th-adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$1.80 (1 in stock)
Woman After God's Own Heart
by Elizabeth George
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