Prayer, Expanded Edition

by Ole Kristian Hallesby; Dan Berka

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1994

Overview

Is your personal prayer life giving you problems? Read this book. It will clear your mind about your need for prayer and strengthen your will to do it. Beyond all that, it will simply flood your soul with goodness and love of God!

Key Features

• Discusses what prayer is and is not, and how to use it to interact with God
• Looks at prayer as both a tool and a refuge

Contents

• What Prayer Is
• Difficulties in Prayer
• Prayer As Work
• Wrestling in Prayer, I
• Wrestling in Prayer, II
• The Misuse of Prayer
• The Meaning of Prayer
• The Forms of Prayer
• Problems of Prayer
• The School of Prayer
• The Spirit of Prayer

Top Highlights

“Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only those who are helpless can truly pray.” (Page 18)

“ God has designed prayer as a means of intimate and joyous fellowship between God and humankind.” (Page 14)

“Prayer is the most important work in the kingdom of God.” (Page 70)

“For to pray is to open the door unto Jesus. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs? That is the one great and fundamental question in connection with prayer.” (Page 15)

“Such a faith as this sees its own need, acknowledges its own helplessness, goes to Jesus, tells Him just how bad things are and leaves everything with Him.” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Prayer: Updated Version (with Study Guide)
• Authors: Ole Kristian Hallesby, Dan Berka
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1994
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Prayer
• ISBN: 080662700
• Resource ID: LLS:PRAYERHALLESBY
• Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:19:49Z

About Ole Hallesby

Ole Hallesby was one of Norway’s leading Christian teachers and devotional writers. He played a leading role in the church’s opposition to the Nazis and was confined to a concentration camp for two years. His writings, coming from a mind and heart attuned to God, continue to speak to Christians today.