Best Books on Prayer
Top 10 Best Books on Prayer
: The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life, Holy Bible: New International Version, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, Beginning to Pray, The Practice of the Presence of God, The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
| Author | Bruce H. Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 1576737330 |
Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, president of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, takes readers to 1 Chronicles 4:10 to discover how they can release God's miraculous power and experience the blessings God longs to give each of us. The life of Jabez, one of the Bible's most overlooked heroes of the faith, bursts from...
Holy Bible: New International Version
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0310902711 |
Holy shit (literally). This book is riveting. It is a fictional novel based on the life of a guy named Jesus who is one badass motherfucker. The book chronicles some of his totally rad and awesome adventures, such as turning water into wine and coming out of a cave after he died! Any lover of fictional adventure...
Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060628464 |
Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions,...
Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0806614390 |
In this beautiful little book, Bonhoeffer guides the Christian to the Scriptures for lessons in how to pray. He affirms that the Lord's Prayer is the primary prayer of the Christian, which he asserts contains every prayer that a Christian ought to pray. Bonhoeffer also makes a startling but wise claim...
| Author | Anthony Bloom |
| ISBN | 0809115093 |
Accessible but not simplistic. A welcome and far cry from the rote spiritual pablum I was raised on regarding prayer in daily life. Bloom explains that prayer starts (and often ends) in silence, an attitude that echoes much I've read about meditation.
My favorite passage describes an elderly...
The Practice of the Presence of God
| Author | Brother Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0883681056 |
Brother Lawrence was a man of humble beginnings who discovered the greatest secret of living in the kingdom of God here on earth. It is the art of “practicing the presence of God in one single act that does not end.” He often stated that it is God who paints Himself in the depths of our souls. We must merely...
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0385468148 |
This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly?...
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0156027666 |
"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are."
What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayer—its form, its regularity, its content, its insistence—shape...
A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
| Author | Jared Brock |
| ISBN | 1414392133 |
Is Anyone Listening? Do My Prayers Really Change Anything?
Jared Brock sensed that something was missing in his prayer life, so he embarked on a yearlong journey to rediscover the power of prayer (and eat some delicious falafel).
FOLLOW JARED ON A 37,000-MILE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD...
A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
| Author | Paul E. Miller |
| ISBN | 1600063004 |
Author Paul Miller shares his insights and conclusions about how to connect the broken pieces of your life and allow prayer—even poorly delivered—to fill the gaps with meaning and substance. Miller’s down-to-earth approach and practical nature will help you see that your relationship with...
What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Jewishness of Jesus: A New Way of Seeing the Most Influential Rabbi in History
| Author | Evan Moffic |
| ISBN | 1426791585 |
If you were to ask ten people, Who started Christianity? you might hear ten voices giving the same quick response: Jesus. But those ten people would be wrong. Jesus wasn't a Christian. Jesus lived and died as a Jew. Understanding the Jewishness of Jesus is the secret to knowing him better and understanding...
Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence
| Author | Sarah Young |
| ISBN | 1591451884 |
After many years of writing her own words in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to be more attentive to the Savior's voice and begin listening for what He was saying. So with pen in hand, she embarked on a journey that forever changed her—and many others around the world.
In...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life
Readers of all ages have followed...
Powerful Prayers in the War Room: Learning to Pray like a Powerful Prayer Warrior (Battle Plan for Prayer Book 1)
| Author | Daniel B. Lancaster |
I WANTED TO PRAY…BUT I DIDN’T KNOW HOW
As Christians, we often struggle to find the words to speak in the presence of God Almighty. Praying to God may feel foreign or like a ritual, and adding to that frustration, we worry that God isn’t listening. Even if He hears, will He reply? This book will...
| Author | Stormie Omartian |
| ISBN | 0785267034 |
When Stormie Omartian was a child, her mother would lock her in a closet and say, "You are worthless, and you'll never amount to anything." How did a young girl who grew up in an abusive home learn to overcome her past pain to find emotional wholeness as an adult? Lord, I Want to Be Whole offers seven steps...
| Author | Janet Holm McHenry |
| ISBN | 1578563763 |
Challenge your body. Feed your spirit. Change the world.
Ask any Christian woman about her most recent New Year's resolutions, and you'll likely find that "exercise regularly" and "pray more" were at the top of her list. We all long to look and feel our best, to live actively and healthfully....
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
| Author | Jana Riess |
| ISBN | 1557256608 |
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success (“Really, how hard could that be?” she asks...
Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation
| Author | Pete Greig |
| ISBN | 0972927662 |
An extraordinary story about the adventure of faith and the power of persevering prayer… On a summer's day in 1727 a community of Moravians started praying and didn't stop for more than 100 years. Throughout history God has mobilised such movements and moments of 24/7 prayer - from the Upper Room of...
| Author | Donald S. Whitney |
| ISBN | 1433547848 |
All Christians know they should pray, but sometimes it’s hard to know how—especially if the minutes start to drag and our minds start to wander. Offering readers hope, encouragement, and the practical advice they’re looking for, this concise book by professor Donald Whitney outlines a simple,...
Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within
| Author | Thomas Dubay |
| ISBN | 1569553394 |
Prayer Primer is written for adults who want God and a serious prayer life, but it does not presuppose that they need or have a theological background. Dubay answers many questions on prayer. Why pray? Why vocal prayer is important and yet should be limited? What contemplation is and is not. How to pray...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0061875678 |
Every Sunday, the Lord's Prayer echoes in churches around the world.
It is an indisputable principle of Christian faith. It is the way Jesus taught his followers to pray and distills the most essential beliefs required of every one of the world's 2.5 billion Christians. In "The Greatest Prayer,"...
Gratefulness, The Heart Of Prayer: An Approach To Life In Fullness
| Author | David Steindl-Rast |
| ISBN | 0809126281 |
Although I do not feel I am a Christian, I found this book illuminating and inspiring. It was also thought provoking, really giving me some things to think about. It reminded me how beautiful Christianity can be. Gratitude and surprise, prayer, faith, hope, love - these were explored in the light of Christianity...
