Holy Spirit, I Pray: Prayers for Morning and Nighttime, for Discernment, and Moments of Crisis

by Jack Levison

Overview

Whether your spiritual life is in shambles or your faith is robust, whether you attend church or not, are angry at God or resting in God's embrace, you will discover in this book a path to authentic faith sifted through intense joy and disheartening loss, through breathtaking experiences and the nearly hidden reality of the Spirit tucked away in everyday life. In Holy Spirit, I Pray, you'll meet the Holy Spirit as you never have before—in prayers of uncanny candor and surprising beauty. Each raw, honest prayer is accompanied by the Scripture texts that inspired it. 

"Jack Levison studies, meditates, prays, and writes of the place of the Holy Spirit in our lives with more skill and understanding than anyone I know."—Eugene Peterson, author/translator of The Message

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640602250
Publisher:	Paraclete Press
Publication date:	02/05/2019
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jack Levison is the W. J. A. Power Professor of Old Testament Interpretation and Biblical Hebrew at Southern Methodist University. Jack has won many awards, including a 2021 Christianity Today award for A Boundless God: The Spirit According to the Old Testament, and multiple grants. He has lectured throughout the USA, Canada, Scotland, England, Germany, Holland, Italy and Switzerland, and his books have appeared in Chinese, Korean, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Jack and Priscilla have lived happily on the SMU campus as faculty-in-residence, where they have hosted events, baked lots of cookies, and hung out with countless bright and lively undergraduates. 

Table of Contents

Introduction v

Prayers for Morning 1

Prayers for Nighttime 27

Prayers for Discernment 43

Prayers for Moments of Crisis 67

Prayers for Anytime 89

Index of First Lines 110

Index of Scripture 113

Editorial Reviews

Jack Levison studies, meditates, prays, and writes of the place of the Holy Spirit in our lives with more skill and understanding than anyone I know.” —Eugene Peterson, author/translator of The Message

“Reading Levison I’ve been blessed with a greater understanding and a deeper experience of the Spirit. His newest book, Holy Spirit I Pray is a book of fifty prayers, which invites readers to pray to the Spirit...Some of them speak directly to intimacy, other prayers speak of justice, inspiration, mission, empowerment, crisis, etc. I give this five stars.” —James Matichuk, Thoughts, Prayers & Songs: My Journey From Self-Absorption To Doxology
 

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