From the author of Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women. “These encouraging words will heal your heart.” —Nina Lesowitz, author of The Grateful Life As recent scientific research shows, the simple act of praying can be emotionally, spiritually, and even physically healing. With Prayers for Hard Times, author Becca Anderson offers solace in bringing together the wisdom of great thinkers, spiritual leaders and writers who have faced difficulty and learned from it. Organized in daybook form, the book draws from sacred sources such as the Bible, the Torah, Buddhist and Native American texts, as well as inspirational writings of: Joan Didion Elizabeth Gilbert Maya Angelou Rumi Mark Nepo Harriet Tubman Dave Eggars Abraham Lincoln Anne Morrow Lindberg Martin Luther King Jr. Together, these wise words create a tapestry of consolation and renewal for those times when it all seems “too much.” In a world that feels increasingly fragile and, at times, fractured, people need answers and prayers. Becca Anderson’s collection focuses on prayers for a wide range of life challenges, from the personal to the global. Prayers for Hard Times covers issues facing individuals such as loss of loved ones, illness, anxiety, divorce, depression and addiction, as well as those challenges communities face in natural disasters and violence. The writers in Anderson’s devotional address the world at large, as well, with words of hope and help for global poverty, hunger, war and the environment. Prayers for Hard Times offers readers solace, comfort, and support, drawing from the wisdom of every era, every major faith and tradition, and the important voices of those who have lived through such experiences themselves.

Linda Evans Shepherd shows how God's answers to prayer may not come packaged in the ways we would expect, but they do come in ways that will transform our lives. This book will be a comfort to those who struggle with faith yet still dare to believe that God cares. Through solid biblical teaching and true stories of answered prayer, Shepherd walks with readers on a journey to renewed hope.

In Powerful Prayers for Troubled Times, Stormie Omartian challenges Christians to pray for the land we call home. In this easy-to-carry pocket book, Stormie tackles genuine questions about praying for our country. She offers sample prayers you can use to pray for government and community leaders, the heroic men and women who protect us (police officers, firefighters, soldiers), and the welfare and healing of our nation. You’ll find help in your prayer life for situations like these: Why do bad things happen to innocent people? How do we pray for our enemies? What does it mean to be “a nation whose God is the Lord”? You will also find encouragement for today and hope for the future as you join with other believers and, as one people, offer up our country to God in prayer.

Offering hope and comfort to those facing pressure and anxiety, Pocket Prayers for Troubled Times offers both original and traditional prayers that speak of God's presence and faithfulness in adversity.

Prayers to Help You Get Through Life's Toughest Moments All of us will face difficult times. Lost opportunities, broken relationships, failing health, personal failures, financial struggle. The best response we can have to hard times is to turn to God in prayer. Yet sometimes we just don't know what to say or how to pray. Beautifully designed and perfect for gift-giving, 100 Days of Prayer for Difficult Times is a collection of go-to prayers for when you need to say something to God but you're not sure just what words to use. Covering an array of challenges, losses, and unexpected hardships, these prayers help you express yearning, lament, praise, and gratitude to the One who made you, sustains you, and loves you through it all. If you need encouragement and inspiration each day, look no further!

Of all the disciplines of the Christian life, prayer is perhaps the most neglected. Yet Jesus’ brief earthly life was permeated with it. A Passion for Prayer seeks to help you develop—or deepen—your communion with God. Drawing on personal experience and God’s Word, Pastor Tom Elliff shares principles for daily coming before the throne of grace.

About the Book Prayer: A Force that Causes Change A Life of Prayer is a challenge sent out to Christians to take their prayer practices up to a new level. It is a call to change what has been done and move into a new realm of power in prayer. Christian prayer is a source of power for changing the world. It is a means of focusing Gods power and might on the needs of people and nations. God has promised answers if we will pray His way. This book will challenge you and make you think about prayer. It will call you to make changes to your prayer life. It is a call to a powerful and effective life of prayer. This book is a series of articles on prayer, first published as weekly articles in the Voice of Thanksgiving newsletter. These articles are enjoyable to read, but challenging to common practices of prayer. Prayer: A Force that Causes Change - A Life of Prayer is the second of four volumes on developing a powerful prayer life that accomplishes much. The articles are intended as lessons and meditations on prayer. They are written to promote development of an effective life of prayer. These articles are intended to encourage men and women to go to the Holy Spirit School of Christian life and prayer, where we learn to live a full and complete Christian life and to have a life of prayer that avails much.

The essence of walking by faith should encompass all phases of life - a lesson that even the disciples had to learn! In this book, Dr. Seavers, looks at eleven recorded events in the Gospels that Jesus used to mold and mature the disciples to be men of faith. Each chapter examines one of these eleven events and looks at the relationship between that event and preceding events. As a statistician and expert in patters in data, Seaver connects the events as well as Jesus methods and timing in a unique and insightful way. This in depth look at faith as revealed in the Gospels will help you evaluate and grow your own faith journey. This book includes study questions and thoughtful reflections for individuals or groups.

James, our life coach. James, the brother of Jesus, was not a believer until after the Resurrection. Then his whole life changed. He was made the leader of the early church. We often think of the great apostle Paul as the greatest leader in the early church, but whose counsel did Paul seek when he had to make a crucial decision three times? Was it not James whose counsel he sought? James was Paul's life coach, and by reading and studying the sacred and inspired writings of James, he can then can become our life coach.

The epistle of James is unusual in tone and content among the New Testament letters, containing many moral precepts and challenging readers to seek godly wisdom on such topics as poverty and riches trials and temptation hearing and obeying the Word of God faith versus works taming the tongue friendship with the world versus friendship with God patience in suffering The wisdom of this letter speaks to us across the ages as every issue James addresses is as urgent and timely today as when he first wrote it. For the person who wants to be wise, time spent soaking up the wisdom of James, the half-brother of Jesus, is time wisely spent.