Prayer Guide - by Andrew Murray (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

You may be weak, but your prayers can move mountains!
Attend Andrew Murray's school of prayer. Learn to let the Holy Spirit move through you as you earnestly intercede for others. Feel the power in your life as you discover

• How to pray
• What to pray for
• How to pray as Jesus did
• How you can have an impact in your area, your nation, and your world

You are called to pray for others. This book will inspire you to pray using 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 in the schools, businesses, and churches around you. Impact the world for Christ through prayer.

From the Back Cover

How do you "pray without ceasing," and how can you be free from worry? Here are subjects to pray for and hints for making your prayers more effective. Some of the topics included are-How to pray-How God helps you pray-How to strengthen your faith through prayer-What and whom to pray for-How to receive positive answers-How prayer can become a joy

About the Author

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was an amazingly prolific Christian writer. He lived and ministered as both a pastor and author in the towns and villages of South Africa. Some of Murray's earliest works were written to provide nurture and guidance to Christians, whether young or old in the faith; they were actually an extension of his pastoral work. Once books such as Abide in Christ, Divine Healing, and With Christ in the School of Prayer were written, Murray became widely known, and new books from his pen were awaited with great eagerness throughout the world.
He wrote to give daily practical help to many of the people in his congregation who lived out in the farming communities and could come into town for church services only on rare occasions. As he wrote these books of instruction, Murray adopted the practice of placing many of his more devotional books into thirty-one separate readings to correspond with the days of the month.
At the age of seventy-eight, Murray resigned from the pastorate and devoted most of his time to his manuscripts. He continued to write profusely, moving from one book to the next with an intensity of purpose and a zeal that few men of God have ever equaled. He often said of himself, rather humorously, that he was like a hen about to hatch an egg; he was restless and unhappy until he got the burden of the message off his mind.
During these later years, after hearing of pocket-sized paperbacks, Andrew Murray immediately began to write books to be published in that fashion. He thought it was a splendid way to have the teachings of the Christian life at your fingertips, where they could be carried around and read at any time of the day.
One source has said of Andrew Murray that his prolific style possesses the strength and eloquence that are born of deep earnestness and a sense of the solemnity of the issues of the Christian life. Nearly every page reveals an intensity of purpose and appeal that stirs men to the depths of their souls. Murray moves the emotions, searches the conscience, and reveals the sins and shortcomings of many of us with a love and hope born out of an intimate knowledge of the mercy and faithfulness of God.
For Andrew Murray, prayer was considered our personal home base from which we live our Christian lives and extend ourselves to others. During his later years, the vital necessity of unceasing prayer in the spiritual life came to the forefront of his teachings. It was then that he revealed the secret treasures of his heart concerning a life of persistent and believing prayer.
Countless people the world over have hailed Andrew Murray as their spiritual father and given credit for much of their Christian growth to the influence of his priceless devotional books.