Praying with the Grain

Praying with the Grain by Pablo Martinez was published by Lion Hudson Plc in January 2012 and is our 21341st best seller. The ISBN for Praying with the Grain is 9780857211521.


Find out what your personality really is and understand how it affects the way you pray, why you sometimes can't and how you can help yourself to rediscover and enjoy your time of prayer.

You're not alone. Many struggle to pray but don't know why. Dr Pablo Martinez; medical doctor and psychotherapist, explains how to understand your individual personality type and how it affects the way you pray. For instance, if you find it difficult to get into a regular time of prayer, it may be that you have an outgoing personality. If you're more introvert, you might find that aspect of prayer easier, but others more difficult.

Thinker-personalities might find writing prayers more satisfactory than speaking them, while feeling types might long for more intimacy in prayer. Intuitive types might need a more mystical approach, while spontaneous expression might better enable the prayers of sense driven personalities.

This is not a book of hard and fast rules for prayer or a criticism of any personality type. The purpose of this book is to help you understand and work with your own personality to find the spiritual prayer path best suited to you.

With a foreword by John Stott, this book is " a profound, practical and personal book in which the skill of the psychiatrist and the gentleness of the pastor are combined... I cannot imagine any reader failing to be helped by it, as I have been myself".