Come Boldly: Timeless Daily Encouragements on Prayer

Brief Description: Pray without ceasing. Jacket Description/Back: Come Boldly invites you on a personal journey to the throne room of God through 312 passion-infused readings on prayer. Offering profound insights on what it means to communicate with your heavenly Father, these biblically based writings are by such great Christian thinkers as: - John Bunyan- C. S. Lewis- Elisabeth Elliot- E. M. Bounds- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Paired with Scripture, each weekly reading--enough for an entire year--follows a biblical rhythm of prayer: Preparation/Examination/Confession/Worship/Request. Plus, weekend entries will encourage you with powerful true stories and testimonies of God's working through prayer. If your prayer life needs fresh inspiration, this collection will stir your heart, challenge your mind, and show you what a great privilege prayer really is. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Publisher Marketing: Have you ever struggled with how to pray, what to pray for, or simply needed encouragement to keep praying? This collection of 312 daily readings on prayer will challenge and inspire you to make your communication with God more intimate and your relationship with Him stronger. Written by some of the most respected authors on prayer from the last three centuries, these readings--enough for an entire year--are by: John BunyanC. S. LewisElisabeth ElliotE. M. BoundsDietrich BonhoefferAnd many moreEach devotion follows a biblical rhythm of prayer: Preparation/Examination/Confession/Worship/Request. In addition, weekend entries are powerful true stories and testimonies of God's workings through prayer. This inspirational collection is a must-have for pastors, prayer leaders, and believers who want to make their prayer lives richer and more personal.

Contributor Bio:  Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) is one of the most well-known and beloved theologians of the twentieth century. He was a Christian minister, seminary professor, and a founding member of Germany's Confessing Church. One of the leading voices of opposition against Nazism during World War II, Bonhoeffer was executed for participating in a plot to assassinate Hitler. His theological views have become highly influential in the years since his death. Contributor Bio:  Bounds, E M Andrew Murray was raised in what was considered to be the most remote corner of the world-Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Educated in Scotland and Holland, in 1848 Andrew, Jr., returned to South Africa as a missionary and minister with the Dutch Reformed Church. His first appointment was to Bloemfontein, a territory of nearly 50,000 square miles and 12,000 people. Andrew and his brother John had been in close contact with a revival movement in Scotland, an evangelical extension of the ongoing Second Great Awakening in America. He prayed for the same sort of awakening for the church in South Africa and wrote, "My prayer is for revival, but I am held back by the increasing sense of my own unfitness for the work. I lament the awful pride and self-complacency that have till now ruled my heart. O that I may be more and more a minister of the Spirit." (J. du Plessis, The Life of Andrew Murray) Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God. Contributor Bio:  Bunyan, John John Bunyan was an English Christian writer and preacher who is best known for his allegorical novel The Pilgrim's Progress, published in 1678. Bunyan's faith was profoundly influenced by two books owned by his wife: Arthur Dent's Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven and Lewis Bayly's Practice of Piety, and he turned to preaching following the death of his guide and mentor, John Gifford. The restoration of the monarchy of Charles II of England marked England's return to Anglicanism, and Bunyan's freedom to preach was curtailed. He was arrested numerous times for preaching without a licence, and was finally imprisoned for the offence in November 1660. Bunyan was released from prison in January 1672 and resumed preaching (as permitted under the Declaration of Religious Indulgence) until his death in 1688. Contributor Bio:  Chambers, Oswald Oswald Chambers (1874?1917) is best known for the classic devotional, "My Utmost for His Highest." Born in "Scotland ," Chambers had a teaching and preaching ministry that took him for a time to the United States " and Japan " ." He died at age forty-three while serving as a chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt " " during World War I. " " " " "Contributor Bio:  Elliot, Elisabeth Elisabeth Elliot, one of the outstanding women of present-day Christianity, is the author of more than twenty books, including "Passion and Purity", "The Journals of Jim Elliot", and "These Strange Ashes". She and her husband, Lars Gren, live in Magnolia, Massachusetts. Contributor Bio:  Lewis, C S Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898. He was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including "The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, " and "Mere Christianity". Lewis is arguably the most influential Christian writer of the twentieth century.