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History's Great Words of Faith to Inspire Your Prayer Life TodayHas your prayer life felt a little uninspired recently? For believers looking for a supplement to their quiet time,100 Prayers Every Christian Should Know offers a glimpse at some of history's most inspired words of prayer. The book will walk you through the words of centuries' worth of the "great cloud of witnesses," whose offerings of praise and petitions still ring with importance even now.Each prayer is accompanied by a glimpse at the compelling life of each woman or man who prayed it, as well as a motivating devotional thought to show how the words of yesterday can shape and mold us today. The prayers cover everything from words for daily faithfulness to offerings of confession, hymns of praise, and prayers to help guide you through life's darkest days. Unlocking a path to a deeper and more vibrant prayer life, 100 Prayers Every Christian Should Know reinforces trust in a timeless God whom believers have been humbled to pray to centuries ago, today, and into the future.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	19 octobre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493433742
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Contents
Cover
Half Title Page 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Introduction 11
P RAYERS FOR P EACE AND C OMFORT 15
1. Fanny Crosby 17
2. Prayer of Jabez 19
3. Thomas à Kempis 21
4. George Webb 23
5. Francis Paget 25
6. Queen Lili‘uokalani 27
P RAYERS FOR G UIDANCE AND L IGHT IN TH E D ARKEST H OURS 29
7. Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi 31
8. William Wilberforce 33
9. Thomas Dorsey 35
10. Jonah 37
11. St. Teresa of Ávila 39
12. The O Antiphons of Advent 41
13. Bishop Charles H. Mason 43
14. Charles Vaughan 45
15. Naval Prayer 47
P RAYERS OF A DORATION FOR G OD 49
16. Gloria 51
17. Magnificat—The Prayer of Mary 53
18. Blaise Pascal 55
19. Søren Kierkegaard 58
20. George Herbert 60
21. Hannah 62
22. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 65
23. Thomas More 67
24. St. Francis of Assisi 69
25. Thomas Traherne 71
P RAYERS FOR C HANGED H EARTS 75
26. Timothy Dwight 77
27. Dwight L. Moody 79
28. St. Anselm 81
29. Henry Scougal 83
30. William Booth 85
31. Billy Sunday 87
32. Fyodor Dostoevsky 90
33. Charles Spurgeon 92
P RAYERS FOR J USTICE IN THE F ACE OF E VIL 95
34. Sojourner Truth 97
35. Harriet Tubman 99
36. Frederick Douglass 101
37. Amanda Berry Smith 103
38. W. E. B. Du Bois 105
39. Maria W. Stewart 107
P RAYERS FOR A N ATION TO B E M OVED 111
40. Abraham Lincoln 113
41. George Washington 115
42. Ronald Reagan 117
43. John Jay 119
44. John Adams 121
45. James Madison 123
46. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 126
47. Jacob Duché 129
48. William Penn 131
49. Absalom Jones 133
P RAYERS IN THE F ACE OF P AIN AND G RIEF 137
50. William Tyndale 139
51. Ludwig van Beethoven 141
52. Clara Ann Thompson 143
53. Richard Allen 145
54. Benjamin Tucker Tanner 147
55. Josephine D. Heard 149
56. Book of Common Prayer—Funeral Prayer 151
P RAYERS FOR F AITH TO B E S TRENGTHENED 153
57. Apostles’ Creed 155
58. Andrew Murray 157
59. John Calvin 159
60. George Whitefield 161
61. John Chrysostom 163
62. St. Basil 165
63. Polycarp 167
64. Hannah Whitall Smith 169
65. St. Ignatius Loyola 171
P RAYERS OF T HANKSGIVING AND G RATITUDE 173
66. Martin Luther 175
67. Anne Bradstreet 177
68. Prayers of Grace for Meals 179
69. St. Richard of Chichester 181
70. John Greenleaf Whittier 183
71. Paul Laurence Dunbar 185
72. Anna Shipton 187
73. Walter Rauschenbusch 188
P RAYERS FOR M ERCY W HEN O UR H EARTS S TRAY 191
74. Dismas the Good Thief 193
75. Johann Sebastian Bach 195
76. Albrecht Dürer 197
77. John Newton 199
78. John Knox 201
79. John Donne 204
80. St. Augustine 207
81. Victor Hugo 209
82. Charles D’Arcy 211
P RAYERS FOR D AILY F AITHFULNESS 213
83. The Lord’s Prayer 215
84. Jane Austen 217
85. Harriet Beecher Stowe 220
86. St. Thérèse of Lisieux 222
87. George MacDonald 224
88. St. Patrick 226
89. Susanna Wesley 230
90. Fred Rogers 232
91. George Müller 234
P RAYERS FOR H UMILITY 237
92. Julian of Norwich 239
93. George H. W. Bush 241
94. Helen Hunt Jackson 243
95. Clement of Rome 245
96. Phillis Wheatley 247
97. Elizabeth Fry 249
98. Jeremy Taylor 251
99. John Wesley 253
100. Leo Tolstoy 255
Some Advice on Prayer 257
Notes 261
Back Cover 269
Introduction
The very nature of prayer, words spoken to God, ensures that most of them last only a blink, a moment. Some are spoken in the depths of night by worried parents awake, minds racing for what awaits their children. Some are shouted in praise at moments of triumph and victory. Some are just spoken in amazement or wonder or even fear at the glory of the Almighty. Sometimes congregations read words of prayer together from a screen, but then the next slide comes up and the words have entered silence and the prayer is gone.
But we know God collects them. We know He hears and is presented with our words through His Son, in a tradition echoing back through the generations.
But the words themselves—so many of them have vanished, which makes the ones that have lasted through the generations all the more critical.
This book is an effort to collect some of the words that have remained. It is also designed to introduce—or reintroduce—you to some of the men and women who have spoken those words throughout history, because the hearts of believers today and millennia ago beat astoundingly the same.

A great cloud of witnesses.
When the writer of Hebrews sought to encourage members of the early Church, he reminded them of the lives of faith of those who went before. Men and women whose godly lives were captured in the Bible. Abraham and Isaac and Moses and David and Solomon and another and another. Drawing on hundreds of years of history and innumerable stories of faith, the writer creates an image of countless lives before us that point the way to God and serve as examples.
Since then, hundreds of years have passed, and more and more lives have been added to the great cloud. Writers and pastors and missionaries and politicians and mothers and fathers and artists and simple men and women. As we run the race given to us, it’s natural, then, to turn to these lives in the same way the writer of Hebrews urged. Not as perfect examples of unblemished faith, for there is no such thing outside of Jesus himself. Instead, for encouragement that, in word and deed, others have run the race before us, and the path is not one we need tread alone.
Perhaps no area of faith is as personal or instructive as prayer. The chance to speak directly to God, to present prayers and petitions to our Lord and Creator, is a sacred opportunity, a holy obligation. But sometimes the words we want to say feel inadequate or like something we’ve said a million times before. There are lessons we can learn in prayer, too, from those who have come before.

This is a book of some of the most famous and world-changing prayers in history, though we admit to being a little generous with the definition of the word prayer . You’ll find a few hymns and a few poems in here. Some articles of faith from the history of the Church. All, however, are directed to God and offer a glimpse at the span of Church history and the concerns of the hearts of those who’ve lifted their voices and thoughts.
Some of the selections you will know and will have read before. What is something new you can find in the words, today, as you perhaps look at them in a new context, a new light? How can new breath be breathed into the familiar?
Others you may have never heard before, but you know of the person who offered it before God. What new facets can these words open in your understanding of that person, and perhaps of a particular time and place? How can the heart of someone one hundred or even two hundred years ago be made to seem relevant and alive today?
Some of the prayers and witnesses will be completely new. We hope a phrase or confession or plea will resonate with your soul. As you dwell on them, or even offer them as a guided prayer yourself, we hope you feel drawn not only into the presence of the Almighty who loves you, but into the awareness of being one witness of many to His ongoing story of redemption.
Prayers for Peace and Comfort
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.
2 Corinthians 1:2–4 NLT
1 Fanny Crosby
Known primarily for her hymn writing, Fanny Crosby added as many pages to church hymnals as nearly anyone who has lived. She is credited with more than eight thousand songs of praise, including stalwart favorites like “Blessed Assurance” and “To God Be the Glory.” Crosby, born in 1820, was blind from a very young age and became an avid musician while studying at an institute for blind children. She was also a gifted poet, and her mind seemed perfectly formed to capture fragments of praise in stanza and verse.
Come in our midst, O gracious Lord,
Unveil Thy smiling face,
Distil in every waiting heart,
The dew of heavenly grace;
From earthly scenes we turn aside,
On Thee we cast our care;
We worship in Thy holy name;
O! bless this hour of prayer.