Praying like monks, living like fools : an invitation to the wonder and mystery of prayer
Publication Information
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan Books, [2022]
Physical Description
xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
"An invitation to an ordinary yet radical way of life, using historic Christian practices as both inspiring vision and practical instruction for how to encounter the wondrous, mysterious, living God through prayer. Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises, and yet, most people--even most Bible-believing Christians--find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above. If you've ever felt this way, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. In these pages, Tyler Staton--author, pastor, and national director of the 24/7 Prayer movement--addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are. Through biblical teaching, powerful storytelling, and insights on historic Christian practices, Staton helps you . . . Express your doubts and disappointments about prayer; Discover and practice multiple postures of prayer, including silence, persistence, confession, and more; Understand and embrace the wonder and mystery of prayer in everyday life; Realize that prayer is a powerful invitation to partner with God in the redemption of a fallen world; And, ultimately, open or reopen the line of communication with your Creator and experience afresh his divine power on earth"--
Contents
- Holy ground (pray as you can)
- Be still and know (prayer posture)
- Our father (adoration)
- Search me and know me (confession)
- On Earth as it is in Heaven (intercession)
- Daily bread (petition)
- The middle voice (prayer as participation)
- Laboring in prayer (praying for the lost)
- Ask, seek, knock (silence and persistence)
- Rebellious fidelity (unceasing prayer)
- Epilogue: Raise up the Tabernacle of David.