14 best book of prayers

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Sample Pocket Prayer

For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. Psalm 86:4–5

God, you are abounding in forgiveness and mercy and goodness I cannot understand in this life. I worship you with my heart and soul. As I sit in regret and guilt over past sin, remind me of your forgiveness. Please let me feel your mercy. Fill me with it so I can give it to others I encounter today. Walk closely with my family so they can know your grace. Lift their burdens and point their faces toward you. I give you thanks for the grace I do not deserve and your mercies, which are new every morning. In Christ’s name, amen.

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Honest Prayers to a God Who Listens

DEAR GOD,

You know how when babies and toddlers fall asleep in the car and their heads flop down and to the side in a way that looks not only desperately uncomfortable but also like it’s impossible to breathe? Do I ever look like that to you? Because that’s how I feel. My life, my body, my everything needs adjusting so I can breathe again.

Love,

ME

DEAR GOD,

Why can’t butter be healthy? Are mushrooms really even food? Why didn’t you make seedless pomegranates? You know we’d love that. It’s like a puzzle. Isn’t life hard enough? Why is the mango seed so big? Like, really big? It easily takes up half the mango. Is there a lesson in that? Like, for every mango in life, is there a big seed? Sorry, I’m hungry.

Love,

ME

DEAR GOD,

I need money. Like thousands. I don’t want to be rich; I just want to buy cheese without thinking about it. I know a lot of people have far less than me, so I don’t want to press the issue, but I just bought gas and have only 25.38 to my name. But if you add in the debt I have, it’s negative 8 million (rough estimate).

I’m eating today, so that’s a step. But if you can please let me find pirate gold in a cave, that would be fantastic.

Love,

ME

I am not religious. This book should not be for me. But it was. Beautiful prose ... brutal honesty ... comfort and grace and relevance.”

—JENNY LAWSON, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy

Here Bunmi speaks with God honestly, giving us permission to do the same.”

—AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN, New York Times bestselling author of I’m Still Here

Dear God is a window into someone who has learned that faith isn’t about trusting what we know but about trusting that we are known.”

—JARED BYAS, author of Love Matters More and cohost of The Bible for Normal People podcast

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Lysa TerKeurst

#1 New York Times bestselling author; president, Proverbs 31 Ministries

Moving from comfortable prayers to bold and faith-filled prayers doesn’t happen automatically. I love how Craig teaches us, urges us onward, and models how to have the kind of prayer life we’ve always wanted. It’s not about always getting what we want. It’s about growing closer to the heart of God and truly trusting him with whatever happens next.

Christine Caine

bestselling author; founder, A21 and Propel Women

The Christian life was never meant to be a safe life. Yet all too often we settle for comfort over risk and abandon our purpose in the process. Pastor Craig challenges us to put it all on the line with God and build our faith for a life of risk as we walk in our God-given purpose.

Bob Goff

author, New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody Always

In this book, you’ll feel yourself neither pushed nor pulled toward more prayers that feel like they merely bounce off of the ceiling. Instead, you’re invited to pray the kind of dangerous prayers which have the power to change yourself, the people you love, and the people God loves—which is everybody.

Jefferson Bethke

author, New York Times bestselling Jesus > Religion

To lean in to prayer the way Pastor Craig so brilliantly expounds on is to lean in to prayers that will change the world, and just might change you at the same time. This book is profound and prophetic and so, so helpful.