Practical Prayer

A struggle to pray reveals a desire to pray, and when you have that desire, you can address the obstacles to prayer by facing them head on. Writing as a sympathetic and practical guide, Kevin Halloran helps you to pinpoint areas of weakness in your prayer life and take immediate steps to overcome them. Examine your heart, implement practical measures, and experience the joys of faithfully drawing near to God.

Do you feel called to be a hospice chaplain but don’t know where to start? Are you a chaplain or pastor in need of guidance or encouragement in this ministry? What is a hospice chaplain? How do you know you are called to be one? With an increasing number of people dying in hospices all over the world, the role of hospice chaplains in providing holistic care is invaluable. Hence, there is a need for comprehensive, practical information to help hospice chaplains minister to patients and their families with respect, dignity, and compassion. Written by a certified hospice chaplain who ...

A practical prayer is a one that is answered. It works for anyone, regardless of their religious background or experience. The clearly defined sequence of steps for practical prayer described in this book is distilled from a common thread found in the spiritual practices of religions and disciplines all over the world. It's anchored in the rich history of prayer yet free of the dogma and personality of any particular religion or belief system.

Are you a new Orthodox Christian, confused about what you need to do to grow in your faith? Or perhaps you've been Orthodox for some time but could use a refresher course in basic spirituality. Popular podcaster Fr. Evan Armatas explains the fundamentals of the three-legged stool of Orthdoox practice - prayer, almsgiving, and fasting - in terms that everyone can understand and implement. Let Fr. Evan help you establish your life in Christ on a firm footing.

Any Christian mother and father, or grandmother and grandfather, desires what is spiritually best for their children. However, knowing how to pray for them can often be as challenging as knowing what to pray. Without proper guidance, our prayers are prone to become dry, repetitive lists of requests. With the help of Dr. Erwin Lutzer, you can learn how your best, loving intentions can become enriching, effective intercessions for your children or grandchildren. Trade your lists of requests for Scripturally-based prayers that will immerse you in God’s promises and will.

The “watchman anointing” is being released in this hour! If you seek to better understand the times and seasons, read on. If you are compelled by Jesus’ words to watch and to pray, this audiobook is for you! Throughout scripture, God appointed his watchmen to guard and protect Israel. The watchman’s duty was to warn of coming danger, calling God’s people to follow the Lord’s ways. A watchman’s ministry offered both warning and hope. Though they were often not well received, their message and ministry were critical. It is no different today.

As believers around the world pray for renewal and revival in our conflicted times, they often neglect a key ingredient: pursuing God's presence. The problem, says pastor and theologian Roger Helland, is that we were never taught, in a balanced and biblical way, how to seek, experience, and host God's kavod—his radiant glory, his manifest presence. Offering grounded and practical teaching, balanced with Scripture and Spirit, Helland shows how to live out a deeper biblical experience of the Holy Spirit and the manifest presence of God.

Arthur Wallis offers this balanced study on fasting, and seeks to give to the subject the weight that Scripture gives it while also avoiding exaggeration and over-emphasis.

Anyone who prays or has tried to pray and given up in discouragement knows praying, really praying, is not easy. Praying consistently seems almost impossible. Too often and too easily, prayer becomes a burden: one more item on an already overcrowded to-do list. Failing to pray becomes a source of guilt and stress as we must once again admit our inconstancy and procrastination to our father confessor. The purpose of this audiobook, then, is not to add to the burden, but to ease it by distilling the advice and experience of those who pray.

More than two million Christians around the world have revitalized their prayer lives through the step-by-step plan of prayer outlined in this book. You'll be challenged to spend one hour each day in prayer by dividing the hour into twelve five-minute “points of focus,” such as praise, waiting, confession, and Scripture praying. In this special 25th anniversary edition, Dick Eastman also extends an invitation for believers everywhere to help form continuous walls of prayer in their communities, saturating neighborhoods and nations with nonstop, focused intercession.

With doctrinally sound, practical teaching, Slaying Dragons shows how the demonic realm fits into orthodox thoughts on salvation, redemption, and kingdom life. Daniel Kolenda demystifies spiritual warfare to shine light on what the enemy is doing in listeners’ lives and what they can do to slay every dragon they encounter. It also contains real-world examples of encounters with spiritual darkness, demonstrating examples of how "the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5, NIV).

This is the story of how Jack Deere learned to hear the voice of God in his life and how you can too. Now a modern classic, Jack wrote Surprised by the Voice of God over twenty-five years ago. Based on that first book, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God has been entirely rewritten and includes additional thoughts and insights from a lifetime of hearing God speak.

Most of us are trying to put together the jigsaw puzzle we call life without a very important piece. Over time this becomes incredibly frustrating. In this extraordinary book, Matthew Kelly powerfully demonstrates that we cannot live the life we have imagined or experience the joy we yearn for unless we learn to tend the soul. From there, with his classic style of practical wisdom, he teaches us how to remedy this problem.

Fr. Robert Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University and a highly regarded spiritual teacher and writer, presents a practical, yet rich guide for helping busy people develop a regular and deeper prayer life. Based on many successful retreats and seminars he has given over the years, this brilliant Jesuit priest presents five essential means through which the contemplative and active aspects of our lives can be fused together for a stronger spiritual life.

In this classic work on the spiritual life, Ralph Martin gives listeners the tools for entering more fully into a fruitful relationship with God. Prayer is a gift, not a burden. Through it, the Holy Spirit draws us into the trinity, satisfying the hunger for God that lies within every human heart.

God is looking for honest preachers that will listen to him and deliver his Gospel message to the world, and you're about to learn how to hear from God while preparing, deliver your sermon in a way that captivates, operate in the Holy Spirit after you have ministered, be more productive in your ministry, and achieve godly success. With many copies sold, How to Preach the Gospel with Power is already helping Christians across the world become more effective ministers of the Gospel, no matter what their calling.

Receiving your healing was never meant to be a complicated process; it should be as simple as putting God's Word into practice in your life! In Dr. Sandra Kennedy's groundbreaking book, The Simplicity of Healing, you will receive teaching on how to practically activate God's Word and experience God's healing power in every area of your life that's hurting: physical health, emotions, finances, relationships, and more!

Why should I pray? Does prayer make a difference? Why doesn’t God answer my prayers? Doesn’t God have all power in heaven and earth? Isn’t He omniscient? In this practical and insightful book about prayer, Dr. B.J Willhite answers these big questions and others we have all asked. He skillfully expounds on the power of prayer and how it can change your life. You will learn how to pray fervent, effective prayers, how to move the hand of God, how to know the will of God, and how to get your prayers answered. As you read and apply the principles in this book, your prayer life will soar ...

If you are living under demonic oppression, it’s time to rise up and walk in the supernatural deliverance Jesus purchased for you! Prophet and deliverance minister John Veal has experienced the dark side of the supernatural, firsthand. Even from childhood, he has encountered strange phenomena: attacks from unseen entities, visitations from ghostly apparitions, voices from disembodied spirits, and much more. Skeptics call it superstition, the new age calls it paranormal. It’s time to call it what it really is: spiritual warfare.

Gathered in this booklet is a sampling of the simplest but most effective pathways to connect with God in daily life. Most of the sections have been influenced by my retreat work with high school and college students, university faculty, and alumni. The rest of the booklet contains spiritual wisdom and advice that I have found holds universal appeal to all age groups seeking growth in the Christian life. All of it is intended as a means to draw you deeper into God’s love.