Worried about Everything Because I Pray about Nothing
How to Live with Peace and Purpose Instead of Stress and Burnout
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4.6 • 12 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Say Good-bye to Stress and Burnout, and Hello to Peace and Purpose
What comes to mind when you think about prayer? Does it feel like something for holy people but not for you? Or like a mystical experience you could never hope to achieve in real life? Or maybe just a boring duty with little payoff.
In this book, author and pastor Chad Veach demystifies the concept of prayer by explaining in practical terms what prayer looks like in our day-to-day lives. It turns out, it's not hard! This passionate, personal approach to prayer removes the pressure to "pray right" and replaces it with the calm assurance that God wants to hear from us and respond to us in love.
Along with building a case for the importance of prayer, Chad uses stories and compelling insights from the Bible to give practical advice for how to make your prayers more effective. He highlights where we can and should pray and offers tangible strategies to implement a praying lifestyle within the busyness of modern life.
Prayer works! Here's how to connect with God just like He's always wanted.
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Pastor Veach (Help! I Work with People) provides guidance for cultivating a "healthy prayer life" in this lighthearted outing. "Nobody is born knowing how to pray," Veach suggests, using scriptural analysis and personal anecdotes to explore "the purposes and practice of prayer" while providing advice on praying. He describes "refusing to do for my kids what they can do for themselves" and contends that God does the same for Christians, aiding their personal development by pointing them toward their purpose without doing the work for them. The author rebuts those who claim prayer doesn't do anything and asserts that it's like a workout in that its benefits can accrue long after the exercise has ended. To help readers better recognize God's responses to prayer, Veach notes that God's guidance will always be in harmony with the Bible and that, according to Proverbs, circumstances might be nudges from God. Some of the advice falls flat ("You'll know in your knower" is particularly unhelpful), but Veach's ability to comically relate his points to daily life amuses, such as when he observes that people often avoid God and dentists for the same reason: shame over not living up to their standards. Christians will appreciate this insightful program for improving prayer.
