A Praying Life: Connecting With God in a Distracting World

by Miller, Paul E.

• ISBN13: 9781600063008
• ISBN10: 1600063004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: Navpress Pub Group

Summary

Written like an organized blog, A Praying Life is an honest look at the difficulties of prayer, unanswered prayers, and successes in prayer. Readers will appreciate Paul Miller's down-to-earth approach and practical nature. Parents will find his family-life experiences especially helpful.

Author Biography

Paul Miller is director of seeJesus.net, an organization that develops interactive Bible studies for small groups. He is the author of Love Walked Among Us (NavPress), The PrayerLife Study , The Person of Jesus , an interactive study of the wonder of Jesus and his love. He also travels widely and teaches Jesus Weekends, Person of Jesus seminars, and PrayerLife seminars. Paul and his wife, Jill, have six children and live near Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
"What Good Does It Do?"	p. 13
Where We Are Headed	p. 19
Learning to Pray Like a Child
Become Like a Little Child	p. 29
Learn to Talk with Your Father	p. 37
Spending Time with Your Father	p. 43
Learning to Be Helpless	p. 53
Crying "Abba" - Continuously	p. 63
Bending Your Heart to Your Father	p. 69
Learning to Trust Again
Understanding Cynicism	p. 77
Following Jesus out of Cynicism	p. 83
Developing an Eye for Jesus	p. 95
Learning to Ask Your Father
Why Asking Is So Hard	p. 103
Why We Can Ask	p. 113
How Personal Is God?	p. 119
What Do We Do with Jesus' Extravagant Promises About Prayer?	p. 129
What We Don't Ask For: "Our Daily Bread"	p. 141
What We Don't Ask For: "Your Kingdom Come"	p. 149
Surrender Completely: "Your Will Be Done"	p. 155
Living in Your Father's Story
Watching a Story Unfold	p. 165
A Father's Love	p. 173
Unanswered Prayer: Understanding the Patterns of Story	p. 179
How God Places Himself in the Story	p. 189
Praying Without a Story	p. 195
Hope: The End of the Story	p. 205
Living in Gospel Stories	p. 211
Praying in Real Life
Using Prayer Tools	p. 221
Keeping Track of the Story: Using Prayer Cards	p. 225
Prayer Work	p. 235
Listening to God	p. 239
Prayer Journaling: Become Aware of the Interior Journey	p. 249
Real-Life Praying	p. 257
Unfinished Stories	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Notes	p. 271
About the Author	p. 279
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