101 Most Powerful Prayers in the Bible

by Steve Rabey, Cloninger

Overview

Throughout the Bible are many powerful and moving examples of prayers from men and women who sought a priceless and indispensable friendship with the Father. 101 Most Powerful Prayers in the Bible contains a sampling of those orations, including prayers of need, thanksgiving, joy, guidance, healing, and wisdom, and resisting temptation-simple reminders that God is only a prayer away.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759528154
Publisher:	FaithWords
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	509 KB

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101 Most Powerful Prayers in the Bible

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By Steve Rabey, Lois Rabey and Claire Cloninger

Warner Faith

Copyright © 2003 Claire Cloninger
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0446532134

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Chapter One

Return to the Garden

A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:17

ONCE there was a garden where prayer flowed like rivers, where thanksgiving sprang up like grass, and worship fell like morning rain. In that garden, that distant land, that long-ago paradise, a friendship with the Father was the most natural thing on earth. In that garden we walked and talked with God.

That relationship was the one for which the Creator designed us. And although it contained everything we would ever require for fulfillment and joy, we let it go. We let it slip away. We let go of love and touched temptation and the garden vanished.

Now many times we move through our lives without even realizing that the most essential part of who we are is missing, like a phantom limb. We experience an aching emptiness at the center of ourselves we can't quite express. As we navigate snarled lanes of traffic, juggle the minutiae of our jobs, work at being the best parents, children, or friends we can be, we know that something fundamental is missing. As we try to pull together the hundred loose ends of our lives that should provide meaning, we so often come up empty. Even we Christians, who know on some level that we are God's forgiven children, find ourselves longing for a deeper sense of connectedness with him; a deeper sense of union.

How can we reclaim the sweet intimacy of the Garden of Eden- the place where the man and the woman walked with God in the cool of the day without shame and with total abandon? How can we move into that place again?

God is showing us the way. He has left us every clue to his presence and every evidence of his yearning for us, like scattered bread along the path of prayer. He is waiting for us to come with broken spirits and contrite hearts. He is drawing us to himself, saying, "Here I am. Come to me.

"Come with a trusting heart like David when he prayed, 'Because you are my help, / I sing in the shadow of your wings' [Ps. 63:7].

"Come with a surrendered heart like Mary when she said, 'May it be to me as you have said' [Luke 1:38].

"Come with a thankful heart like Paul when he praised me as the one who is able to do 'immeasurably more' than all he could ask or imagine [Eph. 3:20].

"Come home, my child. I am waiting."

O Lord, thank you for inviting us to pray. Thank you for calling us back to you: out of our weariness into your rest, out of our need into your abundance, out of our loneliness into your friendship. Continue to draw us to you. Teach us to pray. Amen.

(Continues...)

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Table of Contents

	General Editors' Preface	xiii
	Introduction	xv
1.	Return to the Garden	1
2.	A Primer on Prayer	3
3.	Wanting His Will	5
4.	The Prayer of "the True Bread"	7
5.	Choosing to Forgive	10
6.	The Bad News and the Good News	12
7.	I Will See Your Face	14
8.	A Prayer for Unity	16
9.	A Little Chip of Grace	18
10.	A Powerful Pattern for Prayer	20
11.	A Prayer for Honest Work	22
12.	A Prayer of Weeping	25
13.	A Woman of Beauty	27
14.	All the Wonders of Your World	29
15.	A Stream of Prayer	31
16.	All Called to Be Pauls	33
17.	A Silent Song of Praise	36
18.	Behind Closed Doors	38
19.	A Prayer for Our Children	40
20.	A Thirst for God	42
21.	Becoming His Glory	44
22.	A Threefold Benediction	47
23.	The Prayer of a Trusting Spirit	49
24.	Choosing the Best	51
25.	A Sister's Lessons	53
26.	Are You Listening?	55
27.	An Intercessory Partnership	57
28.	Beauty for Ashes	59
29.	An Undivided Heart	61
30.	The Family Album	64
31.	A Special Psalm	67
32.	Don't Let the Stones Steal Your Song	69
33.	Following Directions	72
34.	God's Rescue Operation	74
35.	How Wide and Long and High and Deep	77
36.	Forty Thousand Testimonies	80
37.	A Prayer for Boldness	82
38.	Getting on Our Knees	84
39.	Life-Changing Love	87
40.	Following the Treasure Map	89
41.	It Gets Better Than This!	92
42.	It Is Finished	95
43.	Open the Eyes of Our Hearts	98
44.	Four Radical Evangelists	100
45.	Perfect Love on an Imperfect Planet	103
46.	Praise Like Incense	105
47.	Practicing His Presence	108
48.	Praise to the One Who Strengthens Us	110
49.	A Prayer from an Honest Heart	112
50.	A Prayer of a Doubter	115
51.	A Prayer of Meditation	117
52.	The Prayer of the Unveiled	120
53.	A Prayer for Wisdom	122
54.	Nothing Is Too Difficult	125
55.	The Prayer of the Inner Music	127
56.	One Small Life	129
57.	Manna and Miracles	132
58.	Gospel in a Nutshell	134
59.	Prayer Works!	136
60.	Prayer from a Grateful Heart	138
61.	Praying for the Persecuted Church	140
62.	Praying over Our Goals	142
63.	Praying the Scriptures	144
64.	Raise a Ruckus	146
65.	Rejoice and Be Glad!	149
66.	Requesting a Blessing	152
67.	Song of Surrender	154
68.	Spigot of Mercy	156
69.	Teach Us to Pray	158
70.	The Prayer for the Lord's Adventure	160
71.	The Prayer for the Blameless Path	163
72.	The Bottom Holds	165
73.	The Girl and the Angel	167
74.	The Inner and the Outer Story	169
75.	No Other Gods	171
76.	The Lord of Radiant Life	174
77.	Meditations of My Heart	177
78.	The Mourning Prayer	179
79.	The Blessing of Discipline	181
80.	The Abba Prayer	183
81.	That They May Know You	185
82.	Releasing Our Times	188
83.	The Prayer of Incarnation	190
84.	The Prayer of Pardon	193
85.	The Prayer of the Samaritan Leper	195
86.	The Sinner's Prayer	198
87.	The Sweetness of Your Words	201
88.	The Temple	203
89.	The Ultimate Prayer	205
90.	The Woman Who Waited	207
91.	Things Go Better with Praise	209
92.	To Be Like Him	211
93.	Trusting God in the Battle	214
94.	Two Women, One Guest	216
95.	Unceasing Prayer	218
96.	Unshakable Faith	220
97.	The Blessing of a Home	222
98.	You Are God	226
99.	You Are Pleased with Me	228
100.	You Will Still Be Here	230
101.	Who He Is to You	232
	Notes	235