PRAYER RESOURCES

Wow! Will God answer your prayers if you pray for one country? Click here to read the inspiring true story about “Bob and Uganda”, told by John Ortberg, in his message, “How Big Is God?” delivered on Sept. 20, 2009 on the Crystal Cathedral’s Hour of Power. See the link below for his book, “If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat.”

To jump-start your prayer life, here are some helpful resources:

• Click here for America's National Prayer Committee’s site which has links to many prayer ministries, lists of prayer resources and a calendar of prayer events.

• Pray for persecuted Christians and ministries around the world. Click here for information on the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.

Order these books on prayer from Amazon.com:

A Diary of Private Prayer, by John Baillie. This classic has sold more than one million copies and includes 30 morning prayers and 30 evening prayers—and blank pages for journaling.

Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, by Richard Foster. (A Christianity Today Book of the Year)

What Happens When Women Pray, by Evelyn Christenson. This classic has sold nearly two million copies!

Too Busy Not to Pray: Slowing Down to Be With God, by Bill Hybels. Over one million copies of Hybels' book have been sold since 1988. So in 2008 the publishers released a 20th anniversary hardback edition, with a new introduction (Bill's now a grandfather) and a new chapter on praying for the needs of the world.

Too Busy Not to Pray Journal, by Bill Hybels and Carolyn Nystrom. The perfect companion to Too Busy Not to Pray, this journal helps readers put into practice Hybels' time-tested principles for prayer journaling. Special sections parallel material from chapters from the book, and the journal includes plenty of space for recording prayer requests and answers to prayer.

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? By Philip Yancey. The author writes, “When I pray for the healing of AIDS in Africa, I pray for the campaigns by World Vision and World Concern and Tear Fund to raise awareness, for the rock star Bono and his prophetic challenge to the church, for the boards of the pharmaceutical companies as they make sacrificial decisions to donate drugs, for government leaders as they debate funding, for doctors and relief workers and educators on the ground in Africa who minister to patients and scout out homes for orphans. In this small way, through my prayers, I contribute.” (p. 274)

If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat, by John Ortberg. (See the link at the top of these Prayer Resources about Ortberg’s story regarding “Bob and Uganda.”)