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A review by kirchreads
A Call to Prayer by J.C. Ryle
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.