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Best-selling author Richard Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping you to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. "Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do. Yet at the same time we are confronted with great mysteries. Who hasn't struggled with the puzzle of unanswered prayer? Who hasn't wondered how a finite person can commune with the infinite Creator of the universe? ... We do our best, of course, to answer these knotty questions but when all is said and done, there is a sense in which these mysteries remain unanswered and unanswerable ... At such times we must learn to become comfortable with the mystery." Foster shows how prayer can move you inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. He leads you beyond questions to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing you closer to God, to yourself, and to your community.
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 288
Vendor: HarperOne
Publication Date: 1992
| Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.50 (inches)
ISBN: 0060628464
ISBN-13: 9780060628468
Availability: In Stock
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Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest. Coming to prayer is like coming home, Foster says. "Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do. Yet at the same time we are confronted with great mysteries. Who hasn't struggled with the puzzle of unanswered prayer? Who hasn't wondered how a finite person can commune with the infinite Creator of the universe? Who hasn't questioned whether prayer isn't merely psychological manipulation after all? We do our best, of course, to answer these knotty questions but when all is said and done, there is a sense in which these mysteries remain unanswered and unanswerable . . . At such times we must learn to become comfortable with the mystery." Foster shows how prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to minister to others. He leads us beyond questions to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing us closer to God, to ourselves, and to our community.
Richard J. Foster is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, and Prayer, which was Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of RenovarÉ, an intrachurch movement committed to the renewal of the Church in all her multifaceted expressions, and the editor of The RenovarÉ Spiritual Formation Bible.
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 stars(5 out of 5 stars)
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Green (Virginia Bch, VA), April 01, 2009 This is my second time purchasing a copy of this book. I often thought that there were many ways and many reasons to pray and this author confirmed it. The book was beautifully written and I did find myself moving toward greater intimacy with God as I read through the chapters. I have recommended this book to many others. Thank you. 5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Greg (Woodsfield, OH), October 02, 2008 Agreeing fully with what the earlier reviewers said, I would also add that book is perhaps one of the most challenging and instructive books when it comes to expanding and empowering one's prayer life. It is an excellent primer for any small group or prayer ministry in the church. When it comes to spiritual formation, you can't go wrong with any work by Richard Foster. I'm not one to award 5 stars lightly; this is a must have for any Christian's library. 5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by David R. Bess (Charleston, West Virginia), June 02, 2002 There are a myriad of books available today on prayer. Many of those books are shallow theologically and draw little if any from the rich heritage of the Church. Foster's volume combines knowledge of church history's classic devotional writers with freshness appealing to the 21st century.
Foster describes various forms of prayer, dividing them into three general categories: inward-focused prayer provides us with personal transformation, upward-focused prayer offers us intimacy with God, outward-focused prayer places us in the ministries that God would have us fill.
Don't let the title fool you. This volume is NOT just another book on what some persons may call "prayer lite." Foster presents a solid work that is grounded in the theology as well as the history of the Church. I recommend this book highly to all persons desiring a serious treatment of prayer.
5 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by Beth Freeman (Chesterfield, MO), April 22, 2000 This has been one of my favorite books for a long time. It is the best exploration of prayer that I have ever read. It is a resource book that I keep coming back to again and again as I seek to be a more prayerful person. Write a review of Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
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