Going Higher with God in Prayer: Cultivating a Lifelong Dialogue

by A. W. Tozer, James L. Snyder (Editor)

Overview

What's Keeping Your Prayers from Being Effective?

Learning how to pray is one of the greatest challenges in a Christian's life. A.W. Tozer pointed out that the Church's greatest curse is unanswered prayer, and that many people do not seem bothered by that. Maybe they don't understand what answered prayer is all about. Tozer outlines this as only he can, describing the kind of prayer God answers and the kind of prayer that leaves Him silent. Ultimately, you have to ask yourself: are my prayers today more powerful and effective than they were a year ago? Our good Father wants them to be!

The book opens with Jacob's Ladder and its theme of ascending into God's very presence. What better place to begin dialoging with God? Only He can teach us what is on His heart, what His will is, and what our part in it could be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764234040
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/19/2022
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	607,176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) was a self-taught theologian, pastor, and writer whose powerful words continue to grip the intellect and stir the soul of today's believer. He authored more than forty books.

Reverend James L. Snyder is an award-winning author whose writings have appeared in more than 90 periodicals and 16 books. Because of his thorough knowledge of Tozer, James was given the rights from the A.W. Tozer estate to produce new books derived from never-before-published audiotapes.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Discovering the Dynamics of Prayer 11

2 Barriers to Answered Prayer 19

3 The Challenge of Balancing Our Prayer Ministry 27

4 The Platform of Effective Prayer 35

5 Confidence in Our Prayer 41

6 The Danger of Unanswered Prayer 49

7 Cultivating Anticipatory Prayer 53

8 Prayer in Anticipation of a Crisis 61

9 Prayer for the Glory of God 69

10 Corporate Prayer: The Blessing of Coming Together 75

11 The Serpent That Destroys Our Prayer 83

12 Conditions for Answers to Prayer 91

13 How to Pray Successfully 101

14 Things Prayer Will Do for You 109

15 Casting All Your Cares on Him 117

16 The Blessing That Lies in Prayer 123

17 God "Working through Us 131

18 God's Wisdom Working through Us 139

19 God Working through Us Is Not an Accident 145

20 Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? 151

21 A Man of Prayer 159

Editorial Reviews

05/09/2022

“If we are not living in prayer, we are not experiencing the life God has for us,” suggests the late pastor Tozer (A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night) in these bracing if pugnacious sermons, drawn from his previously unpublished recordings, on how Christians can pray better. Tozer uses Jacob’s ladder to heaven as a metaphor to suggest that proper prayer requires Christians to disengage from worldly affairs: “We need to understand that the closer we get to God, the farther away we are from the world.” The consequences of ineffective prayers are dire, Tozer contends, since they go unanswered and “chill and discourage praying people.” To pray effectively, Tozer urges readers to follow Jesus’s example by embodying Christian piety, because while God sometimes answers “emergency prayers” made during times of duress, “His highest will” is for Christians to live out their faith before they need it. Provocative takes might alienate some readers (“God does not hear every prayer”), but Tozer’s forthright style and thoughtful scriptural analysis show why his archives continue to produce nuggets of wisdom over 50 years after his death. Fans will want to check this out. (July)

Publishers Weekly