Prayer: God's Comfort for Today's Family

This book deals with honesty in the spiritual dimension. The author shares personal experiences of how prayer has changed circumstances in her life over the years. Those who are struggling with unresolved issues will be pleased to know this is not a cliche-driven book of pat answers. This book deals with reality. She describes how some prayers were not answered for extended periods of time, I mean really extended periods! Anyone who has been a Christian for a while knows there are seasons of testing. That's Scriptural! She deals with her questions in an honest, upfront manner, as I said before.A second theme from the Scriptures that emerges from this instructive confessional is persistence in prayer. All the overcoming pray-ers seem to touch on this issue in their writings. That's a good indication that it's one of God's mysterious ways. Perhaps something in the person praying changes in such times. This book gives case studies of answered prayers. It isn't the instanteously before/after type always. It's the kind that take into account the complexities and mysteries that seem beyond our understanding in this life. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth so are God's ways higher than our ways. He is love. He answers prayer. He will not allow us to figure Him out, but He concerns Himself in the details of our existence. These are the type of issues explored in depth in this powerful book.