Recipes for Praying God's Heart: A Prayer Workbook
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For many people prayer is quite bewildering. They wonder if they are asking God in the right way or for the right things. If they ask and don’t get the answers they were hoping for, they feel rejected or inadequate. They lose confidence and quit trying out of hurt and frustration. What does this failed attempt mean about my relationship with God? Is He unhappy with me? Have I disappointed Him in a way that is affecting His desire to attend to my requests? That painful uncertainty leads them to avoid prayer until there is no other recourse. For those who want to change this, Recipes for Praying God’s Heart is the perfect tool.
As the reader ponders and prays the verses (that each prayer in this book is based on), proceeding through the chapters in this book, the light of who God is, and how He thinks, will reveal the wrong perspectives that lead us to trust our own reasoning over His will. Recognizing all we have undeservedly been given, (Thanksgiving), leads to the next chapter (Praise) that describes the attributes and character that make God the actual weight by which all things are measured. These chapters show us how different and limited we are in comparison to God which leads to an honest self-assessment in the next chapter (Confession). The result is a profound change in heart and mind. Our natural inclination is to be absorbed with engaging God’s power to make our life (family, work, and social circle) conflict free and released from suffering. But the chapters that follow (God’s Soldiers-those under attack from Satan), (Jerusalem-Jewish people), (Missions/Missionaries), (Bible Translation), (The Lost), (Pastors), (the Sick, Grieving, Leaders, Guardians) take our attention off of what affects us temporally and transfer it to others and eternal purposes; entering into God’s thoughts to care for and about those that bring little to nothing to us. The places provided for names to be listed make it a workbook that aids the petitioner in remembering those being prayed for as well as in remembering God’s faithfulness when prayers are answered. Is this prayer for you?
“Lord, I reason out what needs to happen for the outcome I want and then present my plan to You, asking for You to make it happen. I trust my will as being best, confident I have all the light necessary to see things clearly and correctly. But in putting my trust in my own will I am lying to myself. You alone, Father, are in total light, seeing all the realities that are hidden from me, yet I tell myself I am better at seeing what I need, or what needs to be done, to accomplish my purposes. Lord I want to walk through life in Your light, seeing things as You see them, submitting to Your loving will. Then I will not oppose Your will: creating conflict with Your plans. I want that close relationship with You that comes from having a shared common interest. (Inspired by reading 1 John 1:5-9)
Would you like to start the process of entering into God’s thoughts in order to participate in what God is doing rather than try to manipulate Him to do your own will? This book will help you to recognize what God’s heart wants and will assist you in transferring confidence in your own will, to God’s perfect will instead. Having this shared interest with God develops a relationship that enables one to be confident that you are petitioning God according to His will and know that it will be done in His perfect timing.