Road Map for Prayer Journey
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Doucet has prepared a 15-week program of daily spiritual exercises focused on healing and adaptable to both individual and group use. The Group Workshop section provides detailed suggestions for getting started, setting ground rules, and using the sessions in community.

Daily sessions contain an opening quote from a contemporary author or from scripture, a brief personal reflection by the author, questions for reflection or journal writing, and a closing prayer. Early sessions focus on basics for beginning a prayer journey, but even those with a well developed prayer practice would benefit from a review of such exercises as the spiritual checkup and developing a personal lifeline. Healing is addressed directly in Week Nine, which reflects on scripture passages on the hemmorrhagic woman, the sick man Jesus cured on the Sabbath, the woman at the well, and Zacchaeus.

In each daily session, Doucet relates the gospel to life in today's world. She also touches on such issues as anger, depression, and negativity while emphasizing God's boundless love and the light of the Spirit.
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Since 1982 I used A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants. It has served me well. When I saw this new guide, I said it was time. I have found the readings fresh. And as I who travels, the fact that both the guide and my Bible are on my Kindle makes life so much easier. If you want to walk with God, you need not only to pray but read God's word and reflect. A Guide to Prayer for all who walk with God, might be the thing you need to give that time structure. Give it a try.
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Concise and timely for today's Christian who desires answers to and about prayer.
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This book was an excellent discussion on prayer.  It is a manual on prayer, encompassing the who, what, when and where of prayer including, the why.  It is very inspiring and guides you to take your prayer life to another level.
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This book is a practical resource covering every possible angle on prayer. Bill Thrasher writes as a teacher, and I appreciate his thorough approach, humble attitude, and worshipful standpoint.

Featuring 30 brief chapters perfect for daily reflection, this book could be used as a one-month prayer life restart manual. The book is written with sound theology and strong Bible emphasis, and it is enlivened with many stories from Bills life, the lives of his friends, and stories of great Christians in history.

These are my top ten favorite practical takeaways from the book:

I can give God the first hour of the day, the first day of the week, and the first few days of every year in prayer, and he will completely transform my life. (Chapter 1)
Prayer is helplessness plus faith. (Chapter 1)
I need to see my temptations as a prompt for prayer. (Chapter 4)
I can learn how to pray without criticizing. (Chapter 5)
Our society is addicted to noise, and a fruitful prayer life requires a quiet space. (Chapter 7)
I can gain comfort by knowing Jesus better in prayer. (Chapter 10)
Daily prayer can lead to soul happiness. (Chapter 11)
Scripture meditation can enhance my prayer life. (Chapter 11)
The Bible shows me how to pray lovingly for unsaved people. (Chapter 11)
Every temptation toward anxiety is a call to pray. (Chapter 25)
I need to read this book again to gain all the components I need for a revolutionized prayer life. Since its a compact, easy read, I plan to go through it one chapter at a time for the next 30 days and record one action step per chapter.

A Journey to Victorious Praying is leading me closer to God, giving me greater peace, and helping me love other people through a renewed prayer life.
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I have recommend this book to members of my congregation as a way to deepen their prayer life.
I am currently reading the book for a second time.
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Awesome book to pray through.  Great encouraging real stories - Practical prayer guide at the end that I keep going back to.
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This book has opened up a whole new path to prayer for me. It is what I was looking for. Centering Prayer,Contemplative Prayer, is explained well inThomas Keating's book.
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It is of excellent print and a guide to prayers. I love prayers and this book helps me to know how to tackle some spiritual warfare.
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What a wonderful guide to meditative prayer, rich in scriptural reference, deep in exploration into spiritual classics, and personal in touching the heart of spiritual formation.  In my estimation this book is a spiritual classic in the making.  The words lift off the page and move one into the very heart of meditative prayer and to the heart of God.  It can be read for instruction but also to move into the journey of meditation.

  Richard Foster gives very helpful steps into the heart of prayer. In a real sense this is spiritual guidance at its best, providing a format that draws us into the very presence of God. The opening part of moving from the mind into the heart is a beautiful description of creating a space for God and entering into the inner sanctuary of the heart.  His treatment of sanctifying the imagination and spiritual reading of scripture, lectio divina, is extremely well done, allowing the meaning of the text to flow into us and giving a personal word for our life.

  Richard Foster gives very helpful instructions on meditative prayer, first in recollection, which includes glad surrender, repentance and confession, and accepting the ways of God.  The second part on "Beholding the Lord" is particularly striking in terms of setting the mind on Christ. He calls this holding our heart in God's presence.  What nourishing thoughts.  The third part of the prayer of listening giving inward attentiveness to divine motions speaks so clearly of what happens in extended prayer discerning the voice of God.

  In this book the author tells three moving stories of experiences of meditative prayer where he goes for retreat.  Rather than just some ethereal sense, this book on prayer draws one into the practice of taking those times of solitude for a life guided out of the center of communion with God.  For this he also gives tips on the wandering mind in times of prayer as well draws on prayers that express protection as well as guidance even in times of difficulty.  The Sanctuary of the Soul is a guide into our own journey of heart transformation.

  I call this a spiritual classic for a number of reasons.  One is that it causes me to read and re-read the pages on one level for instruction.  But then I read it even more slowly because the thoughts and selections of scripture and words of devotional classics draw me into the heart of extended prayer.  This is a book that I have already taken with my Bible to my weekly extended prayer time.  Each time I see something new. There is something about the way the book is crafted that makes it a work of art where one always sees a new perspective.

  This book is a very important gift for the renewal of the church for at the heart of spiritual renewal is developing the life of prayer for all God's people. We will certainly use it in the Springs of Living Water Initiative in church renewal as people discover the spiritual journey. I can see this book used in seminary classroom, denominational office, for pastors, congregation members, and for a neighbor or friend. People are hungering for a life of prayer and spiritual guidance and this guide is an extremely helpful resource for all.

  Richard Foster closes with such beautiful words of hope, welcoming us home to the heart of God. His grand invitation of grace at the close leaves us with the image of God's arms stretched out wide to take us in. "Welcome home." "Welcome home to the sanctuary of the soul."
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I liked this book! It was a simple plan for living out this life in prayer, mass, sacraments and virtue. It a step by step growing journey we are on. Thank you Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
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This is a great morning prayer book. Especially for those beginning to increase their pray life. It a 30 day prayer  and mediate book with a journal page for each day. It allows you to read and reflect on what you read and then jot down notes and things that come to mind as you read it. You can re-read each day as often as you like and always take something new from it every time. I highly recommend this for  new members  in Christ.
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I just finished reading "Prayerwalk Beijing" and was impressed with the very idea for this book. It's a book for Christians who will be traveling to China. The premise is that while there, why not pray for the spiritual needs of the country while going about your other business? The book advises the reader on stragic issues that Christians can pray for while they travel, do business, or visit Beijing's historic sites. The book contains helpful maps of popular tourist spots, is well organized, easy to read,  and it even contains cultural warnings about what to do, or not do, so as to not offend one's Chinese hosts. This book is small in size, easy to carry around in one's coat pocket, and will be a very nice traveling companion while in China. I've learned the author has plans to release other books in this series. So, if you happen to be traveling to other major cities of the world and want a very practical prayerwalk guide check back...your favorite travel destination may have a "Prayerwalk" guide book in the near future.
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Besides the fact the book is associated with the Kendrick's "War Room" movie release, it comes with a clear mandate: prayer is a weapon in the battle with the enemy.

It begins with a wonderful testimony of answered prayer which had serious implications for the two brothers and their family. Often our prayers can become unfocused and generic and this book provides a blueprint for a more strategic biblically based prayer life. The 35 short chapters are spread out across seven sections: Enlistment, Basic Training, Conditioning, Strategies, Targets, Ammunition and Reinforcements and the authors encourage you to read a chapter a day. Each chapter starts with a bible verse relating to the topic, moves into a short commentary and ends with a specific prayer. The 35 prayers alone make the investment in the book extremely worthwhile. I'm hoping the authors may provide some form of abbreviated resource that records only the prayers and chapter headings.

I found most of the topics were covered in enough detail however, there were some could have had more. There are also a number of excellent appendices providing bible verses and pointers to specific prayer points which I expect will be used by many readers.

This is a book that will help all people pray more strategically whether or not your new to it or a veteran. But it's important to always remember that the best way to to get better at prayer is by having your Bible open and start praying.
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Helpful addition to my daily prayer and meditation.
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Excellent book guide for contemplative prayer!
The book is organized into days of contemplation.  Brother Roger founded the Taizr community in France.
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This devotional prayer book through the Gospel of Luke has been an inspiration in my morning disciplines. The prayers at the end of each section have been right where I have been with God. This has been a refreshing approach to my prayer time.