Praying through the Psalms

by Yohanna Katanacho

Publisher:

Langham

, 2018

Overview

After completing his PhD on the book of Psalms, Yohanna Katanacho felt led to pray every psalm in the context of the Middle East. These prayers transformed him. They helped him expand his understanding of Psalms as he prayed out his theology. They also enabled him to express all of his frustrations, hopes, joys, and many other emotions. His feelings were sanctified in the presence of the Lord and this experience created a healthy theology of tears in the midst of oppressive realities. Lastly, these prayers strengthened him to face the harsh realities of the Middle East from a biblical perspective.

This collection of 150 beautiful and unique prayers, inspired by each of the Psalms and birthed in the same land as Jesus, will help you grow in understanding the struggles of Christians in the Middle East, and deepen your love for God.

Key Features

• Features 150 prayers written in response to the Psalms
• Provides an innovative approach to reading the Psalms
• Focuses on Middle Eastern contexts

Praise for the Print Edition

It’s been said that the Psalms were the place where Christians used to learn how to pray and how to praise God. Whether or not it was ever true, it isn’t generally true now. But it is where Yohanna Katanacho has been learning to pray and to praise over a number of years. It has led him to compose his own praises and prayers modeled on the psalms, one by one. There are at least three ways we can employ Katanacho’s prayers and praises to God’s glory and to our own blessing: we can simply use these prayers and praises as our own; we can use them as a way of identifying with our brothers and sisters in the Middle East and praying with them; and we can take these prayers and praises as models for our own prayers and praises that build from the biblical Psalms to say what we need to say to God.

—John Goldingay, PhD Professor of Old Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA

Product Details

• Title: Praying through the Psalms
• Author: Yohanna Katanacho
• Publisher: Langham
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 160
• Resource Type: Prayers
• Topic: Psalms

About Yohanna Katanacho

Yohanna Katanacho is a professor of Biblical Studies and Academic Dean at Nazareth Evangelical College. He is a Palestinian Israeli evangelical who studied at Bethlehem University (BSc), Wheaton College (MA), and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv; PhD). He has authored many books in English and Arabic including The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry and contributed to the Palestinian Kairos Document. Rev Katanacho is an Old Testament editor for the Arabic Contemporary Commentary and Asia Bible Commentary Series.

Sample Pages from Praying through the Psalms