Prayer Guide - Andrew Murray

Publisher: Whitaker House Publisher
ISBN: 0883687100
Pages: 144
Book Type: Paperback
Size: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
Released Date: Dec 2001

Description:
You are called to pray for others. This book will inspire you to pray with daily topics for a Spirit-filled month of communication with the Almighty. Watch the Lord work in your life as you lift up the people around you in schools, businesses, and church. Impact the world for Christ through prayer. Andrew Murray discusses how you can make your prayers more effective. This book contains prayer topics that will show you what to pray for and how to pray. As you learn about prayer, you will realize that it is the most important and rewarding thing you can do each day.

Pray without Ceasing 7
How to Use This Book 10
The Monthly Guide to Prayer 17
About the Author 142

How to Pray. You will notice for every day two headings: the one, What to Pray, and the other, How to Pray. If the subjects only were given, one might fall into the routine of mentioning names and things before God, and the work would become a burden. The hints under the heading How to Pray are meant to remind you of the spiritual nature of the work, of the need of Divine help, and to encourage faith in the certainty that God, through the Spirit, will give us grace to pray aright and will also hear our prayer. One does not at once learn to take his place boldly and to dare to believe that he will be heard. Therefore take few moments each day to listen to God's voice reminding you of how certainly even you will be heard and calling on you to pray in that faith in your Father, to claim and take the blessing you plead for. And let these words about How to Pray enter your hearts and occupy your thoughts at other times, too. The work of intercession is Christ's great work on earth, entrusted to Him because He gave Himself a sacrifice to God for men. The work of intercession is the greatest work a Christian

I bow my knees unto the Father ... that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.--Ephesians 3:14, 16

"The fuller manifestation of the grace and energy of the blessed Spirit of God, in the removal of all that is contrary to God's revealed will, so that we grieve not the Holy Spirit, but that He may work in mightier power in the Church, for the exaltation of Christ and the blessing of souls." God has one promise to and through His exalted Son; our Lord has one gift to His Church; the Church has one need; all prayer unites in the one petition-the power of the Holy Spirit. Make it your one prayer.

If a son ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? ... How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him? -Luke 11:11, 13

Ask as simply and trustfully as a child asks bread. You can do this because 'God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying, Abba, Father." This Spirit is in you to give you childlike confidence. In the faith of His praying in you, ask for the power of that Holy Spirit everywhere. Mention places or circles where you specially ask it to be seen.