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bibliophobe's review
5.0
We don’t need our Bibles to be saved, but we do need prayer. Lack of prayer is a firm sign of an unsaved person. It is not until your heart is broken by the weight of you sins and the heavy burden of your hand in the murder of Jesus that prayer is even possible. So, do you pray?
Prayer’s power is in allowing us divine communion with the divine God. Weak and poor are our prayers as they leave our lips, but in the presence of our High Priest and Brother they become a powerful balm! They become able to depose mountains and calm storms. They become able to break and mend hearts. They become able to give peace in prison, contentment in poverty, and comfort amidst bereavement. So, do you pray?
J. C. Ryle's little treatise on prayer is full of hard words for our soft hearts. It's meant to expose us to the reality of our deep need to commune with God in prayer. J. C. Ryle packs these hard hitting truths into a desperately short book, filled with powerful, concise, and pithy sentences. Prepare to read and reread this book. You'll be moved to action by this gentle, powerful call to prayer.
This book is amazing, inspiring, and available for free online. Check it out here!
To see more reviews check out my blog: This Sporadic Life
Prayer’s power is in allowing us divine communion with the divine God. Weak and poor are our prayers as they leave our lips, but in the presence of our High Priest and Brother they become a powerful balm! They become able to depose mountains and calm storms. They become able to break and mend hearts. They become able to give peace in prison, contentment in poverty, and comfort amidst bereavement. So, do you pray?
J. C. Ryle's little treatise on prayer is full of hard words for our soft hearts. It's meant to expose us to the reality of our deep need to commune with God in prayer. J. C. Ryle packs these hard hitting truths into a desperately short book, filled with powerful, concise, and pithy sentences. Prepare to read and reread this book. You'll be moved to action by this gentle, powerful call to prayer.
This book is amazing, inspiring, and available for free online. Check it out here!
To see more reviews check out my blog: This Sporadic Life
terahdeben's review
5.0
So good!! A super quick read. He makes an incredibly compelling case and I was so convicted. Definitely recommend!
tenteb1634's review
5.0
A short little book which was quite interesting. I think the thing that will always stay with me was the quote of Mary Queen of Scots who said she feared John Knox's prayers more than an army of 10,000 men.
kirchreads's review against another edition
5.0
I Thought I Knew How To Pray.
The urgent question of this book is this: "DO YOU PRAY?" Ryle asks it so many times that I lost count. Instead of counting, I became overwhelmed with the conviction that so many times what I have thought was "true prayer" in my life was really lack-luster attempts at controlling God. At times, do I truly come to the throne of God in prayer? Of course. But, do I pray regularly with with the fervency, urgency, and desperation that Ryle describes of true pray-ers in this book? Not hardly.
Do you want to know why people pray? Read this book.
Do you want to know how to pray? Read this book.
Do you want to have a renewed passion to be a person of prayer? Read this book.
Do you think you are a true person of prayer? Read this book.
I cannot recommend it highly enough, but it bears saying: this book encouraged and challenged and convicted me of my own failures in the personal practice of prayer. Whether you do not pray at all or pray for hours each day or fall somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, this book is for you.
The urgent question of this book is this: "DO YOU PRAY?" Ryle asks it so many times that I lost count. Instead of counting, I became overwhelmed with the conviction that so many times what I have thought was "true prayer" in my life was really lack-luster attempts at controlling God. At times, do I truly come to the throne of God in prayer? Of course. But, do I pray regularly with with the fervency, urgency, and desperation that Ryle describes of true pray-ers in this book? Not hardly.
Do you want to know why people pray? Read this book.
Do you want to know how to pray? Read this book.
Do you want to have a renewed passion to be a person of prayer? Read this book.
Do you think you are a true person of prayer? Read this book.
I cannot recommend it highly enough, but it bears saying: this book encouraged and challenged and convicted me of my own failures in the personal practice of prayer. Whether you do not pray at all or pray for hours each day or fall somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, this book is for you.
daniel1132's review
5.0
This is a short little booklet, but packed with great exhortations to prayer. He pulls no punches in getting to the heart of true spirituality: "Tell me what a man's prayers are, and I will soon tell you the state of his soul. Prayer is the spiritual pulse" (33). Ryle tears down all our excuses and supplies great encouragements to prayer. I'll be revisiting this.
carriedoodledoo's review against another edition
4.0
A short booklet on the importance of prayer. Easily digestible, but difficult to put into practice when your prayer life is in as lamentable a state as mine. Let's just start from the top, shall we? Ryle has a knack for taking Christian topics and setting them out in a convicting, straightforward manner.
todenmann's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0