When You Don't Know What to Pray: How to Talk to God about Anything

by Linda Evans Shepherd

Overview

It's easy to pray for others' needs. If God takes a long time in answering--or answers with a no--it's easier to take. Far more difficult is focusing on your own needs, when sometimes you don't get the answers you want. What do you pray when life gets hard or even unbearable? When you lose a spouse or a child? When your health deteriorates? When your spiritual life seems barren? Linda Evans Shepherd knows what it's like to pray in the most dire of circumstances. She shows readers the how, what, and when of praying for themselves. As she takes readers through her own prayer journey and the stories of others, they will be encouraged and equipped to pray for themselves in any circumstance. They'll also find that whether or not God changes their circumstances, he will use prayer to change them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800733131
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/01/2010
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	175,359
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Linda Evans Shepherd is an award-winning author, a successful speaker, and a radio personality. The president of Right to the Heart Ministries, she is also coauthor of the Potluck Club books and the Potluck Catering Club series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 8

Introduction: Beyond the Prayer of Jabez 9

1 Project Prayer 13

2 The Five Keys to Power Prayer 25

3 What to Pray for Yourself 42

4 What to Pray to Help You Realize God's Presence 58

5 What to Pray When Your Burdens Are Heavy 72

6 What to Pray When You've Been Betrayed 90

7 What to Pray When Everything Goes Wrong 105

8 What to Pray in Difficult Financial Situations 116

9 Praying for Others 130

10 Can We Really Trust God with Our Prayers? 144

11 Why God Answers 158

12 Our Response 174

Conclusion: Discovering Joy 187

Notes 193

Reader's Guide: When You Don't Know What to Pray 195