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Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

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Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

By: Tyler Staton, Tim Mackie
Narrated by: Tim Mackie, Tyler Staton
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 'What if, until now, you've never really prayed. Not like Jesus designed it, anyway.'

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus' most audacious promises, and yet, most people - even most Bible-believing Christians - find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above.

If you've ever felt this way, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. In these pages, Tyler Staton - author, pastor, and national director of the 24/7 Prayer movement - addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are.

Through biblical teaching, powerful storytelling, and insights on historic Christian practices, Staton helps you ...

· Express your doubts and disappointments about prayer

· Discover and practice multiple postures of prayer, including silence, persistence, confession, and more

· Understand and embrace the wonder and mystery of prayer in everyday life

· Realize that prayer is a powerful invitation to partner with God in the redemption of a fallen world

· And, ultimately, open or reopen the line of communication with your Creator and experience afresh his divine power on earth.

Prayer is a journey, and this book will help you transition your prayer life from a path littered with half-hearted requests to a treasured journey of ever-deepening, adventurous relationship with Jesus.©2022 Tyler Staton (P)2022 Zondervan Christian Living Christianity
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Great book to boost your prayer life and intimacy with God. I could really relate to this book and it has blessed me beyond measure.

Great book to boost your prayer life and intimacy with God.

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An accessible read that delves into the fundamental principles, importance, and methodology of prayer. I will definitely will be applying the techniques I learnt in this book to build my prayer life.

Constructing a prayer life

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So many incredible stories to build faith in prayer but also the reality of what we are facing today and even in trails and suffering choosing to persevere in persistent prayer because of Who he is and our trust in him.

Amazing stories to build faith

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This book has been instrumental in helping me open up my heat to Our Father in Heaven.
As a practicing Catholic, prayer has always been embedded in my routine.
However, Praying like Monks and Living like Fools has unlocked new aspects of my prayer life. One of the most striking points for me were:
1. Being vulnerable in prayer, not pray the way you ought to, but be who you are, naked in the presence of God.
2. Pray like David, a man after God’s Heart.
3. Be still, labour silently in prayer.
Thank you Tyler and Tim, this is an exceptional book.

A must read for anyone wanting to improve their relationship with God

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I highly recommend this book. I’ve been listening to a chapter each day and doing the ‘practice’ which comes at the end of the chapter. Really easy to apply and something to make you think and practice prayer more deeply.

Highly recommended

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I hadn’t heard much about this book before I read it but as I dove in I fell right in. This depiction of prayer and understanding the mystery behind it is so emotionally overwhelming that it is beautiful. Thank you Tyler. You have helped rekindle something in me for prayer.

This is the most heartfelt and honest description and prescription of prayer

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Tyler brings out the very thoughts I have about my faith but couldn’t articulate. I found his illustrations really helpful

States truths that are really felt in Christianity

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A beautiful and bold invitation to the seemingly daunting task of prayer.

Staton is honest and funny. I hope to follow in his footsteps of what is on offer in and through prayer.

Beautiful and bold

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This is my second read of this book and I think it was needed! A lengthy read but a lot of treasure hidden that if you blink you could miss. Love that Tyler narrated as it makes a huge difference when the author narrates their own material; they seem to own it better. I read it as part of the prayer practice sessions from John Mark Comer and it was a great accompaniment to that.
great job Tyler

A rich resource on prayer for your toolbox!

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loved it. his humility. openness and strategies always coming back to the word made it easy to follow and so many gold nuggets

what a liveable way of the word

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