Praying Life, A: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

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It gives every leader both the tools and the impetus to triage some of the key challenges we face if we are to be a praying church. But if, like Jesus, you realize you can’t do life on your own, then no matter how busy, no matter how tired you are, you will find the time to pray.

Jesus illustrated this well in his parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, in which both men prayed to God, but only the tax collector, who acknowledged his utter helplessness, went away justified before God (Luke 18:9’14). While I can't speak to all of the reasons those other books might have come up short for you, I can recommend a new book that has the potential revolutionize your prayer life. This gets 5 stars because of how it made me think and feel about prayer, and the visible impact it has already had on my day to day life.He serves on staff as Digital Marketing Manager for Watermark Resources and also loves to welcome people to the body of Christ in the welcoming notes ministry. Then Paul introduces a simple way to keep track of the many prayer stories that develop as we carry on an intimate conversation with a God who wants us to know and love him. If you are not praying, then you are quietly confident that time, money, and talent are all you need in life. That's like telling a child he can only talk to his parent in one way or the parent will ignore him!

When you stop trying to control your life and instead allow your anxieties and problems to bring you to God in prayer, you shift from worry to watching.Yet his winsome way of presenting these problems are not a condemnation of our failures, but are actually an encouragement not to give up. Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28, NASB). I hope anyone who reads my review from the book is inspired read it in its entirety as it covers many more topics than I have been able to touch on in this brief net-out. Yet at the same time, while I need practicality, I also need to understand the foundational reasons why prayer sometimes malfunctions in my life. Somewhere in the middle of the book, it begins to dawn on you that a relationship with God that is guided by prayer just might be attainable.