Can prayer become a favourite enjoyment? Absolutely. God is the guarantor of prayer joy and he invites us to a journey beyond duty and sameness. It means being stretched and changed, but we get to live the prayer enjoyment adventure he designed for us. Prayer is the core and the cutting edge of life in Christ and is much too important to lose through non-enjoyment. The Lord has given us a frame for enjoyable prayer: his constant presence. In that frame we become pray-ers marked by raised heart living and hunger for him. Part I of the book captures the “Wow!” of life in God’s company and explains how awareness of his presence can make a difference to prayer life. Part II gives the how-to of breaking new ground in enjoyable prayer. The Lord is the first speaker in the prayer relationship and learning to shape our praying as a response that agrees with him is a mix of desire and discipline. The reader gets to explore that mix by following four pathways for using Scripture to shape prayer. But even shaped praying can become dull and tired, unless we stretch our prayer language to give the heart a bigger expression. The section on visual language explains how. Praying together can be powerful and enjoyable when done in agreement. The agreement-building keys given will enhance corporate prayer, and can be used in large and small group settings. Growing in prayer enjoyment is not about self-indulgence; it’s a journey for God’s pleasure. The book climaxes with a call to live missional prayer lives, to be ‘pray-ers on the move’ who are passionate about voicing responses to the Lord in any place and at any cost, for the joy it brings him.

How the Spirit Shapes Prayer answers qustions about: • Conversational prayer prompted by the Spirit • Why prayer can be so satisfying •How a better prayer life happens •Overcoming blockages to prayer After a major church planting disappointment followed by a serious illness, Dave Luecke had a series of deep prayer experiences with God that awakened him to a new relationship. He became curious about personal prayer experiences of ordinary churchgoers and did a survey of over 1,000 members in Lutheran congregations. He found much more involvement than expected: • Three out of four reported they pray at least daily other than at meals. • Half regularly experienced the peace and presence of God. •Half called personal prayer the most satisfying experience in my life. After holding monthly services of prayer for healing, Luecke wondered what other Lutheran pastors thought and did with such prayer. This prompted another survey, with more surprising results: • Four out five said they had experienced or witnessed a miracle. • Two out of three said members reported a miraculous healing in response to congregational prayer. Yet Lutheran pastors never talk professionally about miraculous healings. How the Spirit Shapes Prayer reopens the discussion. addressing many important questions about prayer and Gods response, such as: • Can God change his mind in response to prayers? • Can God be influenced by multiple prayers? • Why is God so frugal with obvious interventions in natural processes? Pastor and psychologist David S. Luecke has an M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He worked as Vice Chancellor for University Services at Washington and then as full Professor for Administrative Sciences at Valparaiso University before going on to serve as Vice President for Administration at Fuller Theological Seminary. Since 1990 he has been a practicing pastor, first at Community of Hope in Brecksville and then at Royal Redeemer Lutheran Church in North Royalton, Ohio. dluecke@royred.org. GROWTHintheSpirit.church Facebook

Rev. Celta Kirkland's easy-to-use daily devotional is just what today's world needs! Prayer from a right attitude can provoke positive changes in our lives, the lives of those around us, and even in our nations! Are you struggling with issues of faith, your attitude and relationship with God, and the challenges of everyday life? Do you feel burdened by the responsibility of effectively praying for your community, your leaders, and your nation? Are you looking for practical, spiritually-sound, biblical perspectives on issues facing our world today? Reflections in Prayer for All Nations is the devotional for you. This book is a powerful, unique daily devotional that offers solid, practical insight and true wisdom shared from the loving heart of a shepherd and intercessor. Written from Rev. Celta Kirkland's real-life experiences and her more than forty years as a born-again believer, pastor, and counselor, this devotional presents each day's subject, Scripture, practical examples, and prayer to help you grow and inspire you to reach out to others. It will give you strength in your own daily walk with God and remind you that you are not alone in your struggles. At the same time, it emphasizes the importance of effectively praying for your nation. Reflections in Prayer for All Nations was written for such a time as this-when nations are in the turmoil of civil unrest, corruption, immorality and spiritual bankruptcy. This book is dedicated to all people of all nations: may it offer inspiration, encouragement and hope. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" (James 5:16, KJV).

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Lee Mitchell’s great standard work on the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. As his student, protégée, and colleague, Ruth Meyers takes this classic work and updates it for the Church in its current era and for the future.

If you're looking for exciting and meaningful ways to pray with your teens, Pathways to Praying with Teens is just the right guidebook. Each chapter features a prayer form to enhance the young person's experience, such as music, drama, and dance; storytelling and audiovisual aids; scriptural, shared, and quiet prayer; and traditional prayer.

The included Prayers are all experientially focussed with sensory components across the five senses of Sight, Taste, Touch, Smell and Hearing. Within each chapter there are 35 different prayers including five in each of the following sections; Praise & Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition/Supplication, Responding, as well as prayers which combine the different types. Notes are provided on using each prayer in a variety of different settings including prayers stations, as an individual and in small and large groups such as churches. Other information such as visual images relating to the prayer are included. The175 prayers included in each book are all tagged with keywords and hashtags to help with finding the right prayer. There are several indexes. There's also opening chapters on some of theory behind using experiential prayer too. This is a great book for the worship leader or curator of worship experiences. It’s also suitable for use by individuals or small groups for personal prayer

Interactive and experiential journal introducing prayer practices to teenagers. Space for teenagers to record their own thoughts on the practice and to read what other people have said Ideal confirmation gift Fresh, contemporary design. This book is based on a blog run by Revd Miranda Threlfall-Holmes and her teenage son, Noah, www.TeenagePrayerExperiment.blogspot.co.uk. Miranda and Noah developed the blog and book as they could find nothing on the market to introduce teenagers to different ways of praying. Each chapter of the book introduces a prayer practice, e.g using labyrinths, Lego Bible modelling, prayer beads, prayer walking. It also includes comments by teenagers who have tried it out and plenty of space for the young person to record their own thoughts. Each experiment is divided into 4 parts: 1. An introduction to the prayer idea being suggested and the context of the tradition 2. The experiment - how to do it and what you need 3. Space for notes on how it went/ what you thought 4. Notes from other teens who have tried out the experiment and their thoughts about it Packed full of experiments in prayer this is a resource to get stuck into and try for yourself.

Drawing from his experiences as a family practice physician for the past 30 years, Dr. McAfee provides true and captivating stories from his career in medicine. Ranging from humorous to heart-rending, these narratives offer brief glimpses into the lives of Dr. McAfees patients, with practical lessons regarding prayer woven into each account. Intellectual study of the subject of prayer, valuable as that is, typically does not move our hearts to deeper prayer in the same way that stories do. For Christians young and old who wish to live a life of enriched prayerknowing Gods presence as well as His preceptsthese stories help provide the tangible means to achieve that goal.

Calling for a Renaissance in prayer, Prayer and the Diagrams of Force is a Biblically-based study for those who desire to elevate their skills in prayer by studying the inherent mechanics, strategies and art concepts found within the field of prayer. Diagrams is also designed so that readers may spot non-Scriptual glitches in their prayers, those non-essentials that cause many to stumble and receive not. Diagrams as a study guide has many unexplored and untapped avenues, offering readers an extremely rich tapestry of thought, artistic and tactical endeavors, a reflection of the abundant life of Christ, the Creator. Diagrams concludes each chapter with a review of the abundant life of Christ, the Creator. Diagrams concludes each chapter with review questions for personal and group study. Written in an easy to understand style, Diagrams is a bold departure from standard devotional books on prayer and will be an invigorating addition to any study on prayer.