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A 100,000+ copies bestseller from Elizabeth George is made even better with a new cover and the addition of a study guide!The question every believer asks--whether new in Christ or a seasoned veteran--is, How can I be more effective in my prayer life? When it comes to talking to God about people and life-issues, there's always room for growth.Which is why The Heart of a Woman Who Prays is such a significant resource for Christian women at all stages of faith. With Scripture, ideas, and practical advice, Elizabeth provides the inspiration, motivation, and step-by-step guidance to help a woman utilize prayer to...stabilize her emotions and perspective when life is unstableapply God's promises to her problemstalk to God about family and friendsdiscover and carry out God's plan for her lifecount on God's provision through hard timesIncludes a study guide helpful for both individuals and groups.

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Prayer in Christianity

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 mars 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736942249
Langue	English

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T his book belongs to
a woman of prayer .
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Verses marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
Verses marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
Italicized text in Scripture quotations indicates author s emphasis.
Unless otherwise indicated, chapter opening quotes are taken from Elizabeth George, A Woman After God s Own Heart (1997), A Woman s Walk with God (2000), and Loving God with All Your Mind (1994), published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon. Used by permission.
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.
Cover by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, Minnesota
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WOMAN AFTER GOD S OWN HEART is a series trademark of The Hawkins Children s LLC. Harvest House Publishers, Inc., is the exclusive licensee of the federally registered trademark WOMAN AFTER GOD S OWN HEART.
Rerelease of A Woman s Call to Prayer .
THE HEART OF A WOMAN WHO PRAYS
Copyright 2004, 2012 by Elizabeth George
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-2868-7 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-4224-9 (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.
Printed in the United States of America
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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 Woman of Prayer
Making Your Desire to Pray a Reality
1. Beginning the Journey into Prayer
2. Ten Reasons Women Don t Pray-Part 1
3. Ten Reasons Women Don t Pray-Part 2
4. Ten Reasons Women Don t Pray-Part 3
Praying from the Heart
5. When You Are in Trouble...Pray!
6. When You Are Disappointed by Others...Pray!
7. When You Are Hurting...Pray!
8. When You Are Worshiping...Pray!
9. When You Are Worried...Pray!
10. When You Are Overwhelmed...Pray!
11. When You Are in Need...Pray!
Finding God s Will Through Prayer
12. When You Must Make a Decision...
Pray for Faith!
13. When You Must Make a Decision...
Pray for Wisdom!-Part 1
14. When You Must Make a Decision...
Pray for Wisdom!-Part 2
15. When You Must Make a Decision...
Pray for Order!
16. When You Must Make a Decision...
Pray for Understanding!
Discovering God s Formula for Effective Prayer
17. The Time of Prayer
18. The Times of Prayer
19. The Place of Prayer
20. The Posture of Prayer
21. The Voice of Prayer
Developing the Habit of Prayer
22. Ten Ways to Improve Your Prayer-Life-Part 1
23. Ten Ways to Improve Your Prayer-Life-Part 2
24. When You Are Anywhere and at Any Time...Pray!
Answering God s Call to Prayer
Study Guide
Notes
Suggested Books of Prayers
Prayer Calendar
Personal Notes
A Woman After God s Own Heart
Bible Studies for Busy Women
Books by Elizabeth George
About the Author
An Invitation to Become a Woman of Prayer
I f you are like most women (and like me!), you can always use a little helpful motivation for improving and refreshing your commitment to pray. That s why I ve written this practical book-to help you make your desire to pray a reality.
In this written-from-the-heart book, I share my personal discovery of the blessings of prayer and the prayer-journey I began some 25 years ago. As you read, you ll find out-first and foremost-what God says about prayer! You ll also enjoy stories from the hearts and lives of Bible characters. And almost every page brings you inspiration and instruction from men and women who have answered God s call to pray down through the centuries.
To share what I ve learned as a busy woman about making time to pray, I ve included...
24 Practical Ways to Become a Woman of Prayer -You ll discover what to do and what not to do. And you ll understand why you don t do what you want to do-pray-and why you do what you don t want to do-neglect your prayer-life!
Checklists for Prayer -Each chapter concludes with three immediate steps you can take-today!-to help you make your dream of becoming a woman of great prayer a reality.
A Prayer Calendar -I ve included a reproducible Prayer Calendar at the back of this book. Be sure you make a photocopy before you use it or mark on it. You ll want to use it year after year as you journey deeper into a life of prayer.
Dear friend, whether you are a seasoned prayer-warrior who aspires to continue in the battle, or a prayer wanna-be who wonders how to take that first proverbial step toward communing with the Eternal, this book is for you. No matter whether you are single or married, young or old, a seasoned saint and pray-er or a newborn babe-in-Christ, you ll benefit from God s timeless guidelines for prayer.
So journey on! And share your journey with others. With this book in hand, you can
read it alone to enhance your personal prayer-life,
read it along with a friend or small reading group,
read it in a women s Bible study,
read it in your women s Sunday school class, and
of course, share it with others.
Every woman who loves the Lord desires to pray. Prayer is the highest activity of which the human spirit is capable. 1 Through prayer you
worship God,
honor the character of God,
bring your necessities before Him, and
enter fully into one of the privileges you have as His child-that of communing with the God of the universe.
Beloved, if all of this is true, why wouldn t you pray?!
It s fun to talk about prayer
and easy to think about prayer .
But to actually put your feet - and heart! -
on the pathway to prayer ,
to make your desire to pray a reality ,
requires discipline .
-E LIZABETH G EORGE

Making Your Desire to Pray a Reality
Imagine what kind of transformation
would occur in our hearts
if we spent time (or more time) each day
drawing near to God through His Word -
time spent on something of eternal ,
life-changing value!
-E LIZABETH G EORGE

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Beginning the 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 the communion with my heavenly Father that only the act of prayer provides. My heart emotes along with the words of King David of the Old Testament, As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God .My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You (Psalm 42:1; 63:1).
And yet I also squirm at the thought of prayer. Why? Because even though I know praying to God will most definitely be rewarding and a blessing, I also know it is a serious undertaking. Approaching our thrice-holy God, while both a joy and a privilege, is an awesome and almost fearful consideration. Then there is the challenge of finding and making the time, of seeking out and arranging for solitude, and of putting forth the effort focused communion with God through prayer requires. What a battle! I fully recognize that I need to pray. Furthermore, I want to pray. I covet the desired results and blessings reaped through prayer. And yet there is the sober recognition of the work and the discipline such communion calls for.
Do you, dear reader, share these same mixed sensations? Then together let s purpose to heed God s call to us to be women of prayer no matter what! Let s embark on a joint journey of learning more about prayer. Let s seek a life lived on bended knee.
Hearing God s Call to Prayer
Ultimately a first beginning step must be taken to launch out on any journey because, as the well-known saying goes, Every journey begins with a single step. And that s true, too, of a journey into prayer. Even today I still remember the first step that I took toward seriously learning to pray on bended knee
Little did I realize on Mother s Day, May 8, 1983, that God was setting into motion His invitation to me to begin my own personal journey into the depths and disciplines-and delights!-of becoming a woman of prayer. On that particular Mother s Day, my daughter Katherine gave me the gift of a little blank book, a tiny wordless book. It was purple and I still have it.
Needless to say, that tiny purple wordless book is still a real keepsake to me for numerous reasons. But the main one is that Katherine gave it to me. She had initiated and arranged with Jim (my husband and Kath s dad) to do extra work chores to earn the money to purchase a Mother s Day gift for me. Then the two of them had gone off together to shop for just the right present for Mom. The little treasure was then painstakingly inscribed by Katherine on the bookplate in her juvenile printing, lovingly gift wrapped, and proudly presented to me on that Sunday morning those many years (actually two decades!) ago.
Oh, believe me, I screamed! I squealed! I did everything but turn cartwheels to express my thankfulness to my sweet daughter. But then I faced a problem. I don t