How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People

Contents

Introduction

HOW TO P.R.A.Y.
1. Prayer everywhere
2. Keeping it simple

STEP 1: PAUSE
3. Slowing + centring

STEP 2: REJOICE
4. Adoration

STEP 3: ASK
5. Petition
6. Intercession
7. Unanswered prayer

STEP 4: YIELD
8. Contemplation
9. Listening
10. Confession
11. Spiritual warfare
12. Amen

Acknowledgements

Notes

Further Reading

Index of 30 Prayer Tools

The simplicity, clarity, and depth Pete talks about prayer is remarkable. Whatever barriers you're facing when it comes to a vibrant prayer life, this book will help you move beyond them and walk in a richer relationship with Christ. - Margaret Feinberg, speaker and author of 'Taste and See'

If you're like me, you may have prayed the Lord's Prayer many times. It has staying power, doesn't it? But that's not surprising, because it's how Jesus teaches us to pray. And it turns out that when it comes to prayer, Jesus is a great teacher-praying for him is not fancy or formal, but loving and plainspoken. Pete Greig is a respected authority on exactly this kind of praying: simple, honest, straightforward, from the heart. Even when we're asking God for what we want, we're giving him what he wants: our hearts. How to Pray will get you started on a lifelong, and life-giving, practice. - Mark Batterson, New York Times best-selling author of The Circle Maker, Lead Pastor of National Community Church

Pete Greig is a gift to the world. This book uses the revolutionary prayer of Jesus as a grounded guide to ignite our spirits to the heart of God. As you read these pages let these words infuse you with a holy desire for God's kingdom come! - Danielle Strickland, author of 'The Ultimate Exodus'

It is a true delight throughout and an immensely helpful one too. Already I have experienced it refreshing and reinvigorating my own prayer life. - The Methodist Recorder

The simplicity, clarity, and depth Pete talks about prayer is remarkable. Whatever barriers you're facing when it comes to a vibrant prayer life, this book will help you move beyond them and walk in a richer relationship with Christ. - Margaret Feinberg

Is there anything more primal than prayer? We reach out to God, and we hope God is reaching out to us in return. Pete Greig is unwilling to surrender this basic human impulse to any of the cultured complexities that we tend to build up around it. With How to Pray he helps us enter into a habit of prayer that is as life-giving as it is simple. - Ian Morgan Cron, author of 'The Road Back to You'

For many years now, Pete Greig has been teaching us how to pray. Since the inadvertent start of the 24-7 prayer movement nearly two decades ago, Pete's life and witness have been a provocation to the church to enter into more deeply into the mystery, magnitude, agony, and beauty of prayer. In How to Pray: A Simple Guide For Ordinary People, Pete brings the best of two decades worth of insights to us in a deceptively straightforward and endearingly honest way. Savor this book. Then put it into practice. Your life and your world will be better for it. - Andrew Arndt, New Life Church, Colorado Springs, CO

Is there anything more primal than prayer? We reach out to God, and we hope God is reaching out to us in return. Pete Greig is unwilling to surrender this basic human impulse to any of the cultured complexities that we tend to build up around it. With How to Pray he helps us enter into a habit of prayer that is as life-giving as it is simple. - Ian Morgan Cron

Pete Greig is a gift to the world. This book uses the revolutionary prayer of Jesus as a grounded guide to ignite our spirits to the heart of God. As you read these pages let these words infuse you with a holy desire for God's kingdom come! - Danielle Strickland

In a get-fixed-quick kind of world, Pete Grieg meets us with the kind of guidance that's both immediately accessible and deeply thoughtful. For everyone who's wondered how to move the experience of prayer from distant to personal and powerful, How to Pray provides a starting point for the new and seasoned believer alike. - Nicole Unice

The new book from Pete Greig, author of GOD ON MUTE and DIRTY GLORY, and one of the founders of global movement 24-7 Prayer - a straightforward, practical guide on how to pray.

Everyone prays.

Nothing matters more.

But no one finds it easy.

We need a little help.

Pete Greig has been teaching on prayer - and leading a non-stop prayer movement - for twenty years. Now, for the first time, he puts his life's work into a response to the question everybody ultimately asks: how do I pray?

This down-to-earth introduction to life's greatest adventure will guide you deeper in your relationship with God, helping you to become more centred and still, clearer in discerning God's voice, more able to make sense of your disappointments and more expectant for miraculous breakthroughs too. It's full of honest, hard-won wisdom interspersed with real-life stories - some humorous, others moving - to equip and inspire your prayer life. Journeying through the Lord's Prayer, and accompanied by online videos from The Prayer Course, which has been used by more than a million people, it unpacks nine essential aspects of prayer: stillness, adoration, petition, intercession, perseverance, contemplation, listening, confession and spiritual authority.

From one of today's most visionary communicators, for those who've been praying for years as well as those who want to pray but don't know where to begin, How to Pray is the simple, life-changing guide you've been waiting for.