Is your prayer life characterized by such things as sincerity, urgency, and delight? Engagement in prayer is a vital part of our communion with God, making a profound impact on our growth in grace. In this book, you will find thoughtful meditations on prayer in the life of the believer, as well as ample encouragement to cultivate this spiritual discipline in your own life. If you want to be more devoted to prayer, or simply want to assess the health of your prayer life, read this book. It provides both a helpful examination and a needed tonic for those concerned about growing in godliness.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. Who is to Pray?

2. Pray Privately

3. Pray Submissively

4. Pray Humbly

5. Pray Boldly

6. Pray Waiting on God

7. Pray Intercedingly

8. Pray Perseveringly

9. Pray Believingly

10. Pray Thankfully

11. Wrestle in Prayer

12. Waiting for Delayed Answers to Prayer

13. Pray with Appetite

14. Pray in Christ's Name

15. Pray for Laborers

16. Pray Watchfully

17. Pray Sincerely

18. Pray by the Spirit

19. Pray and Work

20. Pray Reverently

21. Pray Fervently

22. Pray Constantly

23. Pray Dependently

24. Unfulfilled Prayer

25. Lustful Prayer

26. Pray Openly and Unworthily

27. Pray Against Bosom Sins

28. Pray for Contentment

29. Pray with Scripture

30. Pray Thoughtfully

31. To Those Who Cannot Pray

Appendix: 31 Marks of True Prayer

Author  James Beeke is a former Ministry of Education Inspector/Director over Private Schools in British Columbia (Canada) and Superintendent of British Columbia-certified schools in China.

Joel Beeke is President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and a pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Endorsements  “The ancient formula, ‘the law of praying is the law of believing’ (lex orandi, lex credendi), or, using other words, the way we pray determines what we believe, expresses an important but forgotten truth. To this adage we would add ‘the law of living’ (lex vivendi), that is, the way we pray determines the way we live. The strength of Developing a Healthy Prayer Life is that its 31 studies treat prayer not as an aspect of the Christian life, but as the Christian life itself. The Christian life is a life of humble, submissive, patient, persevering, trusting, thanking, wrestling, waiting, working, reverent, fervent, constant, dependent, contented, and thoughtful praying and living. As we pray, so we live, and as we live, so we pray. We have needed a book that comprehensively, yet simply, teaches us to pray, not by techniques (though some how-to’s are helpful), but by uniting prayer in the presence of God with life in the presence of God; that shows us how dependent and reverent living arises out of dependent and reverent praying. Developing a Healthy Prayer Life is just the book to help us to unite our praying and our living in a Christ-honoring whole.” —Terry Johnson, Senior Minister of Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia, and author of The Family Worship Book