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A Simple Theology of Prayer Part 1: Why Pray? (Understanding the Power and Purpose of Prayer)
Praying Like Paul: Learning to Pray the Kingdom for Those You Love by Jonathan Graf
Learn a better way to pray! This powerful devotional/journal looks at each prayer of the Apostle Paul and offers insights into how to pray his principles for those you care about. Includes space to design a prayer to pray for someone.
Includes prayers in four categories:
Knowing and Praising God
Spiritual Growth through Suffering
Prayer and the Ministry of the Gospel
Praying for Other Believers
https://prayershop.org/praying-like-paul-by-jonathan-graf/
His Kingdom Come: A Dynamic Way to Pray for Everyday Needs by Jonathan Graf
Most churches focus all their prayer efforts and experiences on meeting the needs of their people. So they have prayer chains, times in services to pray for people, prayer sheets for requests, and so on. These are all good things to pray toward. But when these kinds of prayers become the main thrust of a church’s prayer focus—or worse, the only thing—something is severely out of whack. That church will not grow the Kingdom!
https://www.prayerleader.com/his-kingdom-come/
Knowing the God You Pray To by Cynthia Bezek
One of the biggest hindrances to effective prayer is when we do not have an understanding of who God is. This 6-week study will help you, your small group or Bible study class better know the God you are praying to! It will provide you with insights into His attributes that will make your prayer life more dynamic and focused.
https://prayershop.org/knowing-the-god-you-pray-to/
Giving Ourselves to Prayer – Dan Crawford, Compiler
Compiled by Dr. Dan Crawford, this is an 80 chapter, 592-page textbook written by 80 different professors and national prayer leaders. It is a complete textbook on prayer designed for seminary students and Christian college students who are training for the ministry. It will also be of high interest to pastors. The content covers both personal prayer issues and concepts and how to grow prayer in a church
https://prayershop.org/giving-ourselves-to-prayer-an-acts-6-4-primer-for-ministry/
Love to Pray by Alvin VanderGriend
This 40-day devotional will transform your prayer life. More than 125,000 people have used Love to Pray to deepen and enrich their prayer lives. As the basis for the “40 Days of Prayer,” this simple book has also transformed hundreds of congregations and the prayer lives of tens of thousands of individuals!
Join Dr. VanderGriend as he takes you on a 40-day journey that will change your prayer life forever. Love to Pray is all about loving the one to whom you pray and learning to express that love in a continuing dialogue with God. This book will help you discover how to become “devoted” to prayer as a way of life rather than as a duty.
https://prayershop.org/love-to-pray-by-alvin-vandergriend/
Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Theology of Prayer by Gary Millar
“At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD” (Genesis 4:26 ESV).
From this first mention of prayer in the Bible, right through to the end, when the church prays “Come, Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:20), prayer is intimately linked with the gospel – God’s promised and provided solution to the problem of human rebellion against him and its consequences.
After defining prayer simply as “calling on the name of the Lord,” Gary Millar follows the contours of the Bible’s teaching on prayer. His conviction is that even careful readers can often overlook significant material because it is deeply embedded in narrative or poetic passages where the main emphases lie elsewhere.
Millar’s initial focus is on how “calling on the name of the Lord” to deliver on his covenantal promises is the foundation for all that the Old Testament says about prayer. Moving to the New Testament, he shows how this is redefined by Jesus himself, and how, after his death and resurrection, the apostles understood “praying in the name of Jesus” to be the equivalent new covenant expression. Throughout the Bible, prayer is to be primarily understood as asking God to deliver on what he has already promised – as Calvin expressed it, “through the gospel our hearts are trained to call on God’s name” (Institutes 3.20.1).
https://www.christianbook.com/calling-name-lord-biblical-theology-prayer/j-millar/9780830826391/pd/826391#CBD-PD-Description