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    Walking the Path of Prayer: 10 Steps to Reaching the Heart of God
    Walking the Path of Prayer: 10 Steps to Reaching the Heart of God
    Walking the Path of Prayer: 10 Steps to Reaching the Heart of God
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    Walking the Path of Prayer: 10 Steps to Reaching the Heart of God

    By Jack Hayford

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    Prayer is an essential of the Christian life. Yet confusion abounds, and we have a tendency to make it more complicated than Jesus ever intended. Going back to the basics, bestselling author and pastor Jack Hayford shows that prayer is person-to-Person communication--a combination of worship, fellowship, and intercession.

    He shows that the Bible's call to prayer is neither mystical nor theoretical, and he gives seven simple steps, as outlined by Jesus, on how to pray. He also gives three keys to effective asking in prayer and attacking through prayer. Prayer is not intended to be mysterious, Hayford says, but down-to-earth and practical. To live in the spirit of prayer is learning to walk in the presence of Jesus. Always.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781493414710

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      Walking the Path of Prayer - Jack Hayford

      © 1994, 2001, 2018 by Jack W. Hayford

      Previously published as part of The Power and Blessing by Victor Books in 1994; also appeared in the 2011 edition of Living the Spirit-Formed Life published by Regal Books

      Published by Chosen Books

      11400 Hampshire Avenue South

      Bloomington, Minnesota 55438

      www.chosenbooks.com

      Chosen Books is a division of

      Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan

      www.bakerpublishinggroup.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

      ISBN 978-1-4934-1471-0

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations identified NASB are from the New American Standard Bible®, copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

      Scripture quotations identified NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

      Scripture quotations identified WEB are from the World English Bible.

      Scripture quotations identified KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

      Cover design by Emily Weigel

      If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing; it is an infinitely foolish thing.

      Phillips Brooks, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, 1835–1893

      Contents

      Cover    1

      Title Page    3

      Copyright Page    4

      Epigraph    5

      Above and beneath It All: Walking the Path of Prayer    9

      Step 1: Confident Faith    13

      Step 2: Transforming Faith    21

      Step 3: Responsible Faith    29

      Step 4: Dependent Faith    37

      Step 5: Releasing Faith    43

      Step 6: Obedient Faith    51

      Step 7: Trusting Faith    57

      Step 8: Jesus’ Lessons on Bold Faith    65

      Step 9: Prayer That Intervenes and Reverses    81

      Step 10: The Practice of Fasting    103

      Personal Prayer Journal    119

      About the Author    125

      Back Ad    129

      Back Cover    130

      Above and beneath It All

      Walking the Path of Prayer

      In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

      Matthew 6:9–13

      The aged apostle Paul, as he concluded one of his letters, gave a series of concise commands summarizing essentials for disciples (see 1 Thessalonians 5:12–27). One of them was, Pray without ceasing (v. 17).

      Whatever else may be said about living as a disciple of Jesus Christ, about walking with Him by faith and in love through trial and in power, clearly prayer is the one discipline above and beneath all others.

      I have heard it said that more books have been written on the subject of prayer than on any other worthwhile theme occupying human inquiry or aspiration. Few thinking persons deny there is something to this practice. This has often been true even when the person denies there is someone there to whom prayer may be offered.

      Prayer is a word and idea used by the materialist and the Eastern mystic to describe quiet creative reasoning or transcendent meditation. Still others characterize prayer as anything from describing a good feeling (toward a cause or person) to an impassioned cry for help from whoever’s out there.

      At a fuller, deeper dimension for the disciple of Jesus, prayer is person-to-Person communication—a combination of worship, fellowship and intercession:

      Worship through adoration, praise and thanksgiving to God

      Fellowship through devotion, communion and conversation with God

      Intercession through supplication, fasting and spiritual warfare before God

      Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit is a phrase inclusively covering this triad of prayer, one Paul enunciates in his concluding appeal to the Ephesians (6:18). The NIV reads "all kinds of prayers," a worthy translation that points us to a learning path of applied growth in understanding the means and methods of prayer.

      The Bible’s call to prayer is not a call to the mystical or the theoretical; rather, the pathway of prayer is preeminently learnable. It is not intended to be mysterious, but instead, always practical.

      Starting with seven basic steps of prayer as outlined by Jesus when instructing His disciples how to pray, we will conclude with three keys to effective asking in prayer and attacking through prayer. Throughout we shall move toward applying the one constant the Bible teaches the earnest disciple: Pray without ceasing.

      To learn to live in the spirit of prayer is to learn to walk in the presence of Jesus. Always.

      Wherever . . . thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

      St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1091–1153

      Step 1

      Confident Faith

      You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

      1 Thessalonians 5:5

      Nothing is more crippling to effective prayer than not having confidence in our relationship with God. When Jesus refers to God as the Father, He helps us to understand the glorious

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