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Elizabeth George, author of the bestseller A Young Woman After God's Own Heart (more than 300,000 copies sold), now shows teen women how to make prayer a part of their busy lives.From her own journey through the Bible and the lives of others, Elizabeth shares the difference prayer makes in everyday life. She provides step-by-step guidance and ideas for experiencing an exciting prayer life, highlighting how to-make prayer a realityestablish a regular time for talking with Godpray from the heart for daily needsimprove relationships through prayerTeen girls will grow to know God in a very real way as they develop an active, personal, and meaningful prayer life! Great for Sunday school, youth group studies, and individual reading. Rerelease of A Young Woman's Call to Prayer

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 septembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736945004
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
All Scripture quotations are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Every effort has been made to give proper credit for all stories, poems, and quotations. If for any reason proper credit has not been given, please notify the author or publisher and proper notation will be given on future printing.
Italicized text in Scripture quotations indicate author emphasis.
Cover by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, Minnesota
Cover photos iStockphoto/murnamoo; cedrov/Fotolia
A YOUNG WOMAN S GUIDE TO PRAYER
Copyright 2005, 2012 by Elizabeth George
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-4499-1 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-4500-4 (eBook)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Acknowledgment
As always, thank you to my dear husband, Jim George, M.Div., Th.M., for your able assistance, guidance, suggestions, and loving encouragement on this project.
Contents
Acknowledgment
An Invitation to Become a Young Woman of Prayer
Making Your Desire to Pray a Reality
1. Beginning Your Journey into Prayer
2. What Keeps Me from Praying?
Praying from the Heart
3. When You Are in Trouble or in Need Pray!
4. When You Are Disappointed or Hurting Pray!
5. When You Are Worried or Overwhelmed Pray!
Finding God s Will Through Prayer
6. When You Must Make a Decision Pray for Faith and Wisdom!
7. When You Must Make a Decision Pray for Understanding!
Discovering God s Formula for Effective Prayer
8. The Time-and Times-of Prayer
9. The Place and Posture of Prayer
Developing the Habit of Prayer
10. How Can I Learn to Pray?
11. When You Are Anywhere and at Any Time Pray!
Answering God s Call to Prayer
A Dazzling Prayer-Life
Suggested Books of Prayers
Notes
My Prayer Calendar
About the Author
An Invitation to
Become a Young Woman of Prayer
T alking to God about the issues of your life is important and prayer is the key! But if you re like most women-old or young!-you can use a little help with your prayer-life. That s why I ve written this practical book-to help you make your desire to pray regularly a reality.
The journey to a dynamic and authentic prayer-life is an exciting adventure! First, you ll find out what God says about prayer in the Bible. It s awesome! You ll also enjoy stories from the hearts and lives of Bible characters. These people learned to pray loved to pray and witnessed the mighty effects of prayer and its impact on their relationship with God. Along with insights from my own prayer journey, I share inspiring examples of others who have answered God s call to prayer. You ll discover tips for revolutionizing your own personal prayer-life, including

12 practical ways to become a woman of prayer -You ll discover what to do and what not to do. And you ll understand why prayer can be so difficult to do!
My Checklists for Prayer -Each chapter gives three immediate prayer-steps you can take-today!-to make your dream of becoming a woman of prayer come true.
Would You Like to Know More? -If you want to put the icing on the cake of prayer, you can grow even more by interacting with a few additional scriptures and questions. They are tailor-made just for you!
Things I Don t Want to Forget -Every chapter has exciting life-changing suggestions for your everyday life if you don t forget them! So to help you remember what speaks most to your heart, I ve added a special page at the end of each chapter for you to journal or record your thoughts and takeaway truths. Your written personal insights will become a testimony of your spiritual growth, a cherished keepsake you can refer to in the days, months, and even years ahead.
My Prayer Calendar -I ve also put a reproducible prayer calendar at the back of this book. It will help you see how you re becoming a woman of prayer. Be sure you make a photocopy because you ll want to use it year after year and share it with your friends!
Dear praying friend, as you grow in prayer, and as prayer becomes more and more a part of your life, you ll find God becoming your closest friend. And you ll find He can help you with everything that s important in your life right now and always-your family, your friends, your school, and your dreams for the future.
So journey on! Read and study this book alone, or go through it with a friend, a mentor, or in a group. Whichever way you choose, you ll be blessed. Why? Because prayer is the highest activity of which the human spirit is capable. 1 Through prayer you

-worship God and express your love for Him,
-bring your needs before God and see how He answers, and
-talk one-on-one with the God of the universe about your life.
My precious new friend, I am praying for you right now as you answer God s call to pray!
In His great and amazing love,
Your friend and sister in Christ,
Making Your Desire to Pray a Reality
1
Beginning Your Journey into Prayer
P rayer.
Just say the word and I begin to yearn and squirm at the same time. As a woman after God s own heart, I yearn to pray. My soul longs for it. My spirit craves communion with my heavenly Father. My heart sings with the words of King David found in the Old Testament:
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God .My soul thirsts for you; my body longs for you (Psalm 42:1; 63:1).
And yet I also squirm at the thought of prayer. Why? Because even though prayer is a blessing, approaching our holy, holy, holy God is also an awesome thing. Then there is the search for time to get alone with God to talk with Him.
We re not talking to a brick wall when we pray-we re talking to Someone who really listens. 1
What a battle! I know that I need to pray and I want to pray! And yet the work and the discipline praying calls for is quite real! Do you, my dear new friend, share these same mixed feelings? Then let s decide to answer God s call to us to be women of prayer no matter what! Let s embark on a journey together to learn more about prayer. Let s seek to live our lives on bended knee.
Hearing God s Call to Prayer
On any journey, a first step must always be taken. What will your first step be? I remember my first step into seriously learning how to pray. It was on Mother s Day, May 8, 1983. My daughter Katherine (age 13) gave me the gift of a tiny wordless book. It was purple and I still have it because it s a real keepsake to me. It s special, first of all, because my daughter gave it to me! (That really touches a mother s heart! Trust me on this one.)
Anyway, Katherine had the idea for the gift and arranged with Jim (my husband and Kath s dad) to do extra work chores to earn the money to purchase it for me. Then the two of them went off together to shop for just the right present for Mom. The little treasure was then inscribed by Katherine on the bookplate in her careful handwriting, lovingly gift wrapped, and proudly given to me on that Sunday morning so many years ago.
Oh, believe me, I screamed! I squealed! I did everything but turn cartwheels to express my thanks to my sweet daughter. But then I faced a problem-what to do with a wordless book. For several months I let the small book lie on the coffee table so my dear Katherine would know how much I truly appreciated it. Then one day, not knowing exactly what to do with it, I moved it into the bookcase and it was gone forever .
until September 12, four months later. That day was my tenth birthday in the Lord. As I sat alone before God, I looked back over my first ten years as God s child. Of course, that led to a time of thanking Him for His mercy, His grace, His care, His guidance, His wisdom, my salvation through Christ .
On and on my prayers of appreciation to God gushed. Then after dabbing my eyes with a tissue, I turned my thoughts forward and I prayed, Lord, as I start a new decade with You, is there anything missing from my Christian life that I should focus on for the next ten years?
Oh, dear friend, I can only report to you that before I put the question mark on the question, I knew in my heart what the answer was! It was prayer ! And suddenly I knew I had heard God s call to prayer in my heart. And just as suddenly, I knew what to do with that tiny purple wordless book. I ran to the bookcase, pulled it out, opened it up, and wrote on the very first page:
I dedicate and purpose to spend the next ten years in the Lord, Lord willing, developing a meaningful prayer life.
Making a Commitment
Why did I pick ten years for my commitment to develop a meaningful prayer life? Probably because it was my tenth birthday in Christ. And those ten years have come and gone. And I want to tell to you right now-I am still learning how to pray! You know, you and I don t just wake up one day at the point where we can mark learn to pray off our to-do list! No, no one prays enough. And no one prays as passionately as she would like to pray or should pray. And no one prays for as many people as need to be prayed for.
Lord, teach us to pray (Luke 11:1).
And so we must continue on our journey into prayer until we get it, until we can even say that we ve begun to know even a little bit about prayer. And until that happens, a lot of Christians pray what I call Christopher Robin prayers. He s the little boy who struggled with his evening Vespers. 2 Little Christopher became so distracted by anything and everything that he couldn t remember who or what to pray for. So he ended up praying God bless________ prayers, filling in the blank with t