How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People
2021 ECPA Award Finalist in the Christian Living Category
“An instant spiritual classic.” —Christianity Today
Is prayer the most challenging area of your Christian journey? It doesn’t have to be. Pete Greig, one of the founders of 24-7 Prayer International, is passionate about introducing people to simple, honest, relevant conversations with God.
How to Pray is a raw, real, and relevant look at prayer for everyone—from the committed follower of Jesus to the skeptic and the scared. Full of biblically sound wisdom, How to Pray will offer honest encouragement and real-life methods to refresh your spirit and help you practice life-giving and lifechanging prayer.
Revolutionize your prayer life by learning:
- How to start praying
- How to keep prayer simple
- How to ask God for things
- How to cope with unanswered prayer
- How to pray without words
- How to hear God
You will also be inspired by the power of prayer through the stories of Corrie Ten Boom, Joni Eareckson Tada, Saint Patrick, and many more.
How to Pray is designed to be used with The Prayer Course (a free video curriculum), making it useful for personal, small group, or church-wide reading.
“Pete Greig is a respected authority on exactly this kind of praying: simple, honest, straightforward, from the heart. How to Pray will get you started on a lifelong, and life-giving, practice.” —Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of Circle Maker
“I’m so grateful for this book. Pete’s passion and fervor for intercession is contagious. Get this book. Read this book. Live this book.” —Brady Boyd, author and senior pastor at New Life Church
“For everyone who’s wondered how to move the experience of prayer from distant to personal and powerful, How to Pray provides a starting point for new and seasoned believers alike.” —Nicole Unice, author of Help! My Bible is Alive!
“Pete Grieg has written the prayer masterpiece for today. It is an easy-to-follow, easy-to-practice manifesto of prayer for everyday life.” —Craig Springer, author and executive director of Alpha USA
Top Highlights
“In these old, familiar words we are going to discover nine different paths of prayer: Stillness, Adoration, Petition, Intercession, Perseverance, Contemplation, Listening, Confession, and Spiritual Warfare.” (source)
“THE BEST BIT of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.” (source)
“In the words of Abraham Heschel, ‘Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.’” (source)
“Your soul is crying out for a deeper encounter with Christ, and if your faith is to thrive for years to come, if it is to survive seasons of darkness and pain, if you are to know and be known by Jesus in a richer, more fulfilling way, if you are to continue engaging with him when words no longer have meaning, if you are to become the loving person he wants you to be and to see the world the way he sees it, you must make space in your busy life for regular meditation, contemplation, and communion with God.” (source)
“The greatest act of spiritual warfare in the world is when you lead someone into a relationship with Jesus Christ. You will never win a greater victory! It is ultimately ‘by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of [our] testimony’” (source)
Pete Greig has written the prayer masterpiece for today. How to Pray emerges from the deep cavern of Pete’s own prayers and struggles, his expansive study on prayer through the ages, and the diversity of prayer across his global friendships. How to Pray is an easy-to-follow, easy-to-put-into-practice manifesto of prayer for everyday life. Pete is, without question, one of the desperately needed spiritual guides of our time.
Is there anything more primal than prayer? We reach out to God, and we hope God is reaching out to us in return. Pete Greig is unwilling to surrender this basic human impulse to any of the cultured complexities that we tend to build around it. With How to Pray, he helps us enter a habit of prayer that is as life-giving as it is simple.
Pete Greig knows how to pray, and I’m so grateful for this book. His passion and fervor for intercession is contagious and has influenced the church around the world. Get this book. Read this book. Live this book.
Pete Greig is a gift to the world. This book uses the revolutionary prayer of Jesus as a grounded guide to ignite our spirits to pursue the heart of God. As you read these pages, let these words infuse you with a holy desire for God’s Kingdom to come!
If you’re like me, you may have prayed the Lord’s Prayer many times. It has staying power, doesn’t it? But that’s not surprising, because it’s how Jesus teaches us to pray. And it turns out that when it comes to prayer, Jesus is a great teacher—for him, praying is not fancy or formal but loving and plainspoken. Pete Greig is a respected authority on exactly this kind of praying: simple, honest, straightforward, from the heart. Even when we’re asking God for what we want, we’re giving him what he wants: our hearts. How to Pray will get you started on a lifelong, and life-giving, practice.
In a get-fixed-quick kind of world, Pete Greig meets us with the kind of guidance that’s both immediately accessible and deeply thoughtful. For everyone who’s wondered how to move the experience of prayer from distant to personal and powerful, How to Pray provides a starting point for new and seasoned believers alike.
For many years now, Pete Greig has been teaching us how to pray. Since the inadvertent start of the 24-7 Prayer movement nearly two decades ago, Pete’s life and witness have been a provocation to the church to enter more deeply into the mystery, magnitude, agony, and beauty of prayer. In How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People, Pete brings the best of two decades’ worth of insights to us in a deceptively straightforward and endearingly honest way. Savor this book. Then put it into practice. Your life and your world will be better for it.
The simplicity, clarity, and depth with which Pete talks about prayer is remarkable. Whatever barriers you’re facing when it comes to a vibrant prayer life, this book will help you move beyond them and walk into a richer relationship with Christ.
How to Pray is an instant spiritual classic. Accessible for someone new to spiritual things, but deep enough for someone who has been following Jesus for decades, this is truly a book for everyone. How to Pray is a book with heart, deep wisdom, generosity for where you are on the journey, practical tools and tips, and a gentle way of increasing the reader’s passion for prayer. Highly, highly recommended.
Product Details
- Title : How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People
- Author: Greig, Pete
- Publisher: NavPress
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781641581905