How to Pray When Life Hurts: Experiencing the Power of Healing Prayer

Name: Uniquely helpful book on healing prayer
Item: How to Pray When Life Hurts: Experiencing the Power of Healing Prayer
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by Roy Lawrence

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As a hospital, school, and army chaplain, Roy Lawrence has spent many years praying with people in the midst of crisis. In this book he offers practical counsel and biblical wisdom for all who want to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0830813845

ISBN13:9780830813841

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:InterVarsity Press

Length:129 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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Christian Books & Bibles Christian Living Devotionals Prayer Protestantism Religion Religion & Spirituality Spirituality

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Uniquely helpful book on healing prayer

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago

Roy Lawrence has written a unique book on healing prayer. While believing in the healing power of faith, he is Biblically-based and he avoids the excesses of "faith healers" who ignore the will of God. He is also broad in his approach to healing, dealing chapater by chapter with guilt and shame, anger and depression, hurtful experiences, anxiety and fear, stress, envy, illness, and grief. I found his section on bereavement so helpful that I used the book for a prayer retreat and invited people who had lost loved ones to come, and they found the retreat very helpful. The "forgiveness prayer" that he gives is worth the price of the book. He has some especially meaningful suggestions using visual aids in prayer, through imagining bringing the sick within your "ring of peace" to pray for them, and in death imagining Jesus standing at the top of the stairs and releasing that person to Christ. The book is creative, passionate, and practical.