Breakthrough Prayer
The Secret of Receiving What You Need from God
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Publisher Description
Break Through to Prayer That God Answers.
Pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Jim Cymbala unpacks the principles of faith-filled, mountain-moving prayer that can transform circumstances, change lives, and draw you closer to God than you've ever imagined.
Embark on a pilgrimage of prayer with this manual for powerful prayers that—through stories and teachings—will help you discover how to:
Ask God for the blessings he already wants to give us.Wield God-given prayer tools such as promises, words, timing, and joy.Find the lost prayers of Scripture and incorporate them into your own prayer life.Avoid the major pitfalls that most often hinder a spirit of prayer in us.
"Effective praying depends not just on "what to do," but also on "what never to do" if we want answers from God. By his grace, I pray that this book will instruct, inspire, and assist many in breaking through to a new life of asking and receiving from God." —Jim Cymbala
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Prayer is an essential part of the devoted Christian's life, Cymbala (Fresh Faith) reminds readers, and the Bible sets forth numerous examples of faithful men and women who prayed constantly. In this inspirational guidebook for committed Christians, the author, the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, writes that he has seen the power and comfort of prayer not only in the Bible but in his own life, as well as in the lives of his church members, many of whom were personally affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Cymbala assures that God wants to hear and answer people's prayers, and thus people should pray with"certainty" and with"confidence." He gives guidelines for making effective prayers, and suggests that only supplicants who abide by"God's spiritual laws" can expect to have their prayers answered."An unforgiving spirit, bitterness, secret, sexual sins," he writes,"can stymie our praying." (This is the reason, he says, that he once refused to pray for a man in his Tabernacle--because he lived"in fornication" with his girlfriend.) Cymbala focuses largely on how to use prayer to become filled with joy and to cast away worries or fears, and he spends much of the book explaining how a life of faithful prayer can result in deep, lasting inner peace. Spiced with lively anecdotes--the heroin addict who found God; the disaffected young man who became a soapbox preacher--and punctuated with pullout quotations, Cymbala's impassioned message should bring encouragement to the Christian faithful.
