A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller is all about why we pray (and sometimes why we don’t pray) rather than how to pray. Although he does offer practical applications toward the end of the book, most of the book focuses on the heart behind prayer.
Broken down in 5 parts, the first three parts of the book focus on "Learning to Pray like a Child", "Learning to Trust Again", and "Learning to Ask your Father." He spends a lot of time looking at the things that hold us back from praying and how to move past them.
I love how he sprinkles his own stories of how God has answered his various prayers over the years as a way to explain himself. I found myself drawn in by all the stories in the book.
Miller says "A praying life isn't simply a morning prayer time; it is about slipping into prayer at odd hours of the day, not because we are disciplined but because we are in touch with our own poverty of spirit, realizing that we can't even walk through the mall or our neighborhood without the help of the Spirit of Jesus." I think not praying is often a symptom of not having a proper understanding of our great need for God.
This book is lengthy at 287 pages and took me a good bit of time to get through. So it is not a small undertaking. But overall, I really enjoyed it and would surely recommend it to anyone who is seeking to go deeper in their prayer life.
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