We all know people who struggle with addictions. Sometimes they are our dearest loved ones. We often feel helpless in the face of their struggle, and yet our prayers are the best weapons we have to help them break free. Anne Costa shows us that we can cooperate with God's grace as we wait in hope for healing to come. And as we wait, our prayers will help us as well. As someone who struggled with an addiction for ten years, Anne Costa writes with wisdom, experience, and conviction and helps us to view our prayers of intercession as a mission of love, mercy, and hope.

Time-effective intervention and prevention tools for dealing with addiction Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families examines addiction concerns ranging from prevention to relapse, offering effective intervention techniques and assessment tools to ensure delivery of the best possible service to clients who represent a variety of populations and mental health issues. Leading addiction researchers address new developments in theory, methodology, treatment, and assessment on counselor beliefs, contingency management, group treatment, rapid assessment instruments, behavioral couples therapy (BCT), family-based intervention, motivational interviewing, and 12-step programs and faith-based recovery. This essential professional and academic resource presents case studies, reviews, research findings, and empirical papers that offer unique perspectives on a variety of topics, including evidenced-based practice, theory of reasoned action, harm reduction, juvenile justice, and treatment outcomes. Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families presents sophisticated, cutting-edge theory and practice concepts that provide professionals, practitioners, and educators with a more varied focus than most current available books on addiction. Counselors working in mental health settings and EAP programs, psychiatric nurses working in hospitals and outpatient settings, social workers, and students pursuing degrees in social work, nursing, psychology, and criminal justice will benefit from the book’s wide range of appropriate addiction, treatment, and prevention methodologies. Topics addressed in Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families include: understanding the gap between research and practice in substance abuse counseling prevalence and patterns of illicit drug use among juvenile offenders the relationship between the reported substance abuse of African-American and Hispanic youth and their perceived attachments with their primary caregivers using a harm reduction approach to the evaluation of treatment outcomes using a nonconfrontational approach to substance abuse counseling when addressing client denial why contingency management interventions are underutilized, especially in community settings how to determine if and when Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Adapted Motivational Interviewing (AMI) are effective how to use nonabstinence-based prevention services in working with adolescents how to use and score the K6 scale to screen serious mental illnesses how to use Receiver Operating Characteristics analysis to evaluate rapid assessment instruments Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families is a vital professional resource and an invaluable aid to adults, adolescents, and families of anyone suffering with some level of addiction.

David Sparks gives us the third volume of pastoral prayers in this three-book series based on the scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C. Church leaders will find an entire year's worth of responsive pastoral prayers to help bring individuals and faith communities into right relationship with God. The prayers can be adapted to a variety of settings and circumstances and are divided into four easily identifiable sections: world, suffering, church, ourselves. Each week offers a main prayer along with several "other ways" of praying. The book also includes: * Data CD *How to Use section with a step-by-step guide to different prayer formats *Thematic index *Scripture index *Icons in the margin for quick reference

FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF SATAN, YOU CAN'T HAVE MY CHILDREN Expose your child to spiritual blessing, and protect them from spiritual attack. This book will help you protect your children from evil assignments and show you how to tap into the supernatural protection of the Holy Spirit. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Scripture-based categories help you target your most important needs Counsel and prayers for parents who are hurting and dismayed because of the adverse situations in their homes Declarations of faith will build your faith to believe God and to never stop believing for the protection and transformation of your children We are involved in a war—a spiritual war in which Satan and his demons are attempting to break up our families and disrupt our children’s lives—that can be engaged in and won only with spiritual weapons. We cannot remain passive. In this valuable and effective book Iris Delgado provides an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to win the spiritual battle being fought over their children. You’ll discover how to: Tap into the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to protect your child Put a hedge of protection into action through specific and focused prayers Establish a spiritual security system in your home Become free from generational strongholds and curses Filled with practical counsel and Scripture-based prayers, this powerful guide will give you confidence and faith to stand firm against the influences and attacks of the enemy.

Loving an addict hurts… No matter how many times we promise ourselves to not hurt again, there is a pain in knowing that the one you love will do anything to have the addiction of their desire. Addicts will cling tightly. Even if it means death. The ruin of their future—or yours. It can be hard, especially when children pay for it. There is no more powerless feeling on earth. If you’re looking for a book of prayers to uplift the weary, sooth the brokenhearted, and call on the power of God to heal the addicts we love, you’ll love “31 Prayers for the Addict I Love.” Get it Now!

This book is about addictions. It is based on twenty-four-plus years of experience living and working with twenty clients at a time who were experiencing drug and alcohol addictions and other addictive and destructive lifestyles. Ellen Gardner experienced these individuals as both teachers and students. Many interactions and experiences with society, bureaucracy, friends, and family are shared. Understanding that everyone is a child of God or an offspring of the creator is the foundation of this teaching. Nothing can ever change that truth. No one can ever be an addict or alcoholic. No one can ever be less! Anyone can and many do experience addictions that are destructive. We share what we have learned that allows people freedom from destructive lifestyles. Information is provided to teach spiritual tools that work. Also, an honest appraisal of experiencing these negative addictions and how others are affected by them is shared.

Collects the thoughts of pastors, counselors, doctors, and health researchers on the efficacy and practice of prayer

Because she was reared in a Christian home, one thing she truly grasped was prayer. She surely knows how to reach heaven with her prayers. Watch the power of prayer work in your life and family.

In November 2013, Pastor Teddy Parker was found dead by his wife, Larrinecia Parker, in the driveway of their home with a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" hours after he had sent her and his two daughters ahead of him to church, then failed to show up. It was later revealed that he had been battling manic depression until his death. Since that time, over 30more pastors have committed suicide. These men and women of God face many challenges that could potentially affect every aspect of their lives. As the Body of Christ, most of us have not been cultured to automatically pray for our pastors. Pastors dont always ask for prayers and many members may not feel comfortable praying for them. We need a renewed culture where prayer for the pastor is encouraged and taught. Pastors need to have specific, anointed, and focused prayer going on for them regularly. Prayer Points for Pastors: A Tool for Pastors and Their Intercessors will help both pastors and their intercessors alike by offering prayer points that may be important to pray for or about for pastors.

Look Who's Praying Now: Healing unto the Nations promotes lasting world peace through omnistic prayer including prayers, meditations, mantras, sutras, and poems, invoking even the paradoxical praying atheist that all may have the utmost respect for one another.