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    Whatever We Ask: Prayers Upon Our Return
    Whatever We Ask: Prayers Upon Our Return
    Whatever We Ask: Prayers Upon Our Return
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    Whatever We Ask: Prayers Upon Our Return

    By Andrea Brewster

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    Have you ever questioned if you are worthy to approach God or wondered if God truly wants to hear from you? God's answer to each of us is the same: "You are My child. Come, talk to Me." The collection of prayers in Whatever We Ask: Prayers upon Our Return are a testimony to the faithfulness of our Creator, despite our failures and failings, despite how far we may have fallen. Through these prayers, we are restored to a right relationship with our Creator, our Savior, and our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781543980004
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      Whatever We Ask - Andrea Brewster

      Whatever We Ask: Prayers Upon Our Return

      Andrea Brewster

      ISBN (Print Edition): 978-1-54397-999-2

      ISBN (eBook Edition): 978-1-54398-000-4

      © 2019. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright© 1973 1978 1984 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      This collection is dedicated to the Jesus-followers who meet at The Risen Christ: A Restoration Church in Dayton, Ohio, where I first began writing these prayers. Praise be to God for the leadership of TRC who asked me to begin writing the weekly prayer theme. Richard Jordan, Joe Trammell, Andrew Brewster, and Walt Brewer, I thank God for you. Through the writing of these prayers, the Spirit has been at work in me, and I have been restored.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Recentering: A Return to the Heart

      One God

      Only One

      God the Father

      No Matter Which Door

      Both Origin and Destination

      This Is the Lord’s Day

      Celebrating the Goodness of God

      All Goodness

      To All Who Seek

      The Promises

      Prayer Devotional: Covered in Full

      Covered in Full

      Whatever May Come

      As I Kneel at the Cross

      Remind Me

      Show Me

      Forgive Me

      Quench My Thirst

      Overflow My Cup

      One Savior

      You Alone, Jesus

      Bring Me Back

      Back to My Jesus

      Bread of Life

      Lord of All

      Celebrating Our Freedom in Christ

      Freed of My Chains

      Rejoicing

      Made New

      Living as the Saved

      Remembering Always

      Recommitting: A Return to Life

      Resurrected

      Risen Savior

      Empty Tomb

      Promises Fulfilled

      Faith Restored

      Because He Lives

      To Live as a New Creation

      Called

      To Live Redeemed

      Repurposed

      As an Offering to God

      As a New Creation

      To Live as a Christ-Follower

      No Longer I

      Only Jesus

      Prayer Devotional: Make Me a Follower

      Make Me a Follower

      Unconformed

      On a Jesus Mission

      To Live by Faith

      Never Again

      Steadfast

      In the Spirit

      Upon This Rock

      Waiting for the Day

      To Live in Love

      Beloved

      To Love Like You

      As I Have Been Loved

      Like Jesus Loves

      The Loved Effect

      Reconnecting: A Return to Fellowship

      A Unified Body

      In Christ Jesus

      One Purpose

      One Answer

      One Voice

      Together, We Worship

      Jesus-Focused

      Make Your Presence Known

      Still Jesus

      Prayer Devotional: All Jesus

      All Jesus

      Jesus Style

      Hope Full

      Spirit-Filled

      Make Us the Temple

      Breathe New Life

      Bring Us Closer

      Sing to Us Again

      We Are the Temple

      A Faithful People

      We Rise

      Faith Grown Strong

      Never Ceasing

      Bearing Testimony

      Thankful Still

      Messengers

      We Remember

      We Believe

      Set Apart

      So That the World Will Know

      Make Us a Bridge

      Foreword

      Psalm 116:1-2

      ¹ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.

      ² Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

      Dear Reader,

      I don’t know what brings you here. Maybe you have an active and vibrant prayer life. Maybe you pray only on special occasions or when there is a crisis. Maybe approaching God in prayer comes easily for you, or maybe you struggle to pray. Maybe you believe in prayer. Maybe you don’t. I do know what brought me to this book, though, and I also know that I did not write any of these prayers alone. For much of my adult life, I have struggled to pray, not because I could not find the words, but because my doubts got in the way. I doubted whether God was listening to us anymore, especially to me. I doubted whether prayer worked, and I doubted whether, even if God was listening and prayer did work, I was worthy to be asking God for anything. During the three decades that I have been a Christian, I have more often than not been an active member of a congregation. I have taught Bible classes, organized Vacation Bible School, chaperoned youth group activities, written and publicly read prayer themes, written church bulletins, and sang praises to God down front. But I have not been a faithful follower of Jesus, not by a long shot. That’s how I know I did not write any of the prayers in this book on my own. The Spirit has been at work in me through the writing of these prayers, and I am humbled by the Spirit’s work. Through these prayers, I have been restored to a right relationship with my Creator. Whether you are a veteran prayer warrior or someone like me who has struggled to approach God one-on-one, my hope is that you, too, will feel the Spirit at work through these prayers.

      1 John 5:14-15 

      ¹⁴ This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

      What a powerful truth it is that each and every time we talk with our Creator, we are heard! God is listening . . . to US. We are living in a time of great spiritual doubt, when the idea of a caring God Who is actively at work for good in the world is under widespread attack. This collection of prayers is, in part, a response to that attack. These prayers are a shout-it-from-the-mountaintops-and-from-the-valleys declaration of our Creator’s continued, active love for us. No matter the place from which we pray and how we pray, regardless the circumstances in which our prayers are said, our God hears us. God hears both the mighty and the low, hears both the faithful disciple whose prayers never cease and the wandering child who finds themselves lost and crying out for help from a God Whose very existence they may doubt. Our God hears us. We can come before God with confidence because our confidence is not in ourselves, in our own worthiness to be approaching God, but rather is in the faithfulness of God. This collection of prayers is also, then, in part, a rejection of the idea that who we are and what we’ve done determines if God hears us. God doesn’t tell us to come back later, when we’ve cleaned ourselves up, and for that I am so very thankful. Many times, I have chosen not to pray because I felt unworthy to approach God. Many times, I have wondered Who am I to be asking God for anything? Especially for help, again. Yet, when I have been quiet and listened, God’s answer has always been the same: You are My child. Come, talk to Me.

      Mark 11:24

      Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer,

      believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

      It is easier to pray with confidence, to be sure that God hears us, when we have been faithful. But what if whatever we ask is reconciliation? What if we are praying to be restored to a right relationship with our Creator because we have been unfaithful? Does God also hear the pleas of the fallen, of those whose faith has wavered, of those who have denied their Lord? Although the Bible clearly answers yes, I have often found myself, as an unfaithful Jesus-follower, lurking just outside the door to the throne room, hoping God would call me in, but terrified to present myself. These prayers are my personal testimony of the faithfulness of our Creator, despite our failures and failings. I have abandoned my walk with Christ many times. Yet each time that I have come crawling back to God, desperate to be invited back into the arms of Jesus, I have not only been heard, not only been forgiven, but have also been welcomed home. I have tried in the past to

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