Prayerfulness: Cultivating a Bible-enriched prayer life
Distilled from years of Peter Adamâs teaching on prayer, this book will encourage you to pray more regularly and to use the Bible as the basis for your prayer life.
Howâs your prayer life? Do you pray as often as youâd like to? Does it feel like a chore? Most Christians long for a deep, fulfilling prayer life, but lifeâs busyness and distractions can make prayer an afterthought or a burden.
In Prayerfulness, experienced pastor and Bible teacher Peter Adam guides you in rediscovering the joy and power of prayer. He uses the Bible, the wisdom of Christians from the past, and down-to-earth examples to help you:
- understand the biblical foundations of prayer and see how the gospel can transform your prayer life
- overcome common obstacles to prayerfulness
- learn how to plead Godâs promises, actions, character and reputationâgoing beyond simply asking God for things
- experience many kinds of prayerâthanks, praise, lament, confession, dedicationâand the joy of bringing your requests to God.
360 pages
Table of contents
Introduction
1. What is prayer?
2. Our relationship with God
Godâs promises, actions, character and reputation
3. An anatomy of prayerlessness
4. Enriching our prayers and using written prayers
Praying for ourselves and others
5. Letting the Bible enrich our prayers
Learning to pray the Bible
6. Praying the Lordâs Prayer
7. Jesus and the apostles on prayer
8. Repentance, confession and lament
Services of repentance, confession and lament
9. âUnansweredâ prayers
10. Prayer, fasting, decisions and promises
11. Prayer for deliverance and protection
There are many books about prayer, and if, like me, youâve probably already read one or two, I hope youâll read one more:Â Prayerfulness, by Peter Adam. Distilled from a lifetime of studying Godâs word and walking in Godâs ways, Adam gently diagnoses the causes of our prayerlessness and winsomely invites us into a more prayer-saturated life. With its bullet points, sample prayers, practical advice, and insight into our very human struggle to commune with God in a meaningful and consistent way, this book doesnât simply tell us to pray; it opens us up and instils in us a greater desire to pray.
âNancy Guthrie, Author of Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids
Any book that nurtures our prayer life is to be prized. This is such a book. Peter Adam faithfully engages the Bible with pastoral deftness and theological astuteness, and makes numerous practical applications born of experience. A feast.
âGraham Cole, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, USA
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Distilled from years of Peter Adamâs teaching on prayer, this book will encourage you to pray more regularly and to use the Bible as the basis for your prayer life.
Howâs your prayer life? Do you pray as often as youâd like to? Does it feel like a chore? Most Christians long for a deep, fulfilling prayer life, but lifeâs busyness and distractions can make prayer an afterthought or a burden.
In Prayerfulness, experienced pastor and Bible teacher Peter Adam guides you in rediscovering the joy and power of prayer. He uses the Bible, the wisdom of Christians from the past, and down-to-earth examples to help you:
- understand the biblical foundations of prayer and see how the gospel can transform your prayer life
- overcome common obstacles to prayerfulness
- learn how to plead Godâs promises, actions, character and reputationâgoing beyond simply asking God for things
- experience many kinds of prayerâthanks, praise, lament, confession, dedicationâand the joy of bringing your requests to God.
360 pages
Table of contents
Introduction
1. What is prayer?
2. Our relationship with God
Godâs promises, actions, character and reputation
3. An anatomy of prayerlessness
4. Enriching our prayers and using written prayers
Praying for ourselves and others
5. Letting the Bible enrich our prayers
Learning to pray the Bible
6. Praying the Lordâs Prayer
7. Jesus and the apostles on prayer
8. Repentance, confession and lament
Services of repentance, confession and lament
9. âUnansweredâ prayers
10. Prayer, fasting, decisions and promises
11. Prayer for deliverance and protection
There are many books about prayer, and if, like me, youâve probably already read one or two, I hope youâll read one more:Â Prayerfulness, by Peter Adam. Distilled from a lifetime of studying Godâs word and walking in Godâs ways, Adam gently diagnoses the causes of our prayerlessness and winsomely invites us into a more prayer-saturated life. With its bullet points, sample prayers, practical advice, and insight into our very human struggle to commune with God in a meaningful and consistent way, this book doesnât simply tell us to pray; it opens us up and instils in us a greater desire to pray.
âNancy Guthrie, Author of Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids
Any book that nurtures our prayer life is to be prized. This is such a book. Peter Adam faithfully engages the Bible with pastoral deftness and theological astuteness, and makes numerous practical applications born of experience. A feast.
âGraham Cole, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, USA
