![]() Approach these questions honestly and thoughtfully however, if you’re doing this study in a group, don’t feel that you must reveal private details of your life experiences. (In a few cases, you’ll need access to a standard dictionary-such as Webster’s, Random House, or the Oxford American-for general word definitions.) Other questions will ask you to reflect on your own life. Bible study references-such as commentaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks-can help you understand particular passages by providing historical background, contexts, and common interpretations. Ask God to reveal His truth to you through His Word, and don’t be concerned about wrong answers. Many of the questions will guide you into Scripture passages. THIS STUDY IS DESIGNED FOR both individual as well as small group use, and for women of any age or family status. I pray that your life will never be the same because of your desire to become a woman of prayer.Ĭynthia Heald Suggestions –for Using This Study– I invite you to join me, but more importantly God invites you to join Him. So I have just begun to enter into the inner room and pray. With such an incredible invitation from our Father extended to me, I realized that I would be unwise to refuse such an offer of fellowship and participation in His plans. The underlying principle of prayer, which overwhelmed me, is that God desires to be intimate with me, and He wants this relationship so much that He invites, encourages, and helps me to pray. The passages on prayer have informed me and taught me how to pray biblically. The prayers of the saints in the Scriptures have helped me verbalize my prayers, and the prayers of godly saints have touched my heart. If you desire to deepen your understanding of prayer so that you can pray more effectively and draw closer to our Lord, then perhaps this guide is for you too.ĭuring my study of this subject, I have prayed, wept, and been deeply challenged. ![]() This is a wonderful aspect of God’s character: He shows us our need and then He creatively begins to meet that need. God made it very clear to me that it was about time I began to deepen my prayer life, and the best way to get started was with Becoming a Woman of Prayer. I wrote this study because of my need for prayer. ![]() Not only do I need prayer as others intercede for me, but I stand in the need of spending time in prayer. The words are still true for me as an older woman. IT’S ME, IT’S ME, IT’S ME, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer is a song I learned as a little girl. ![]() This was taught at our ladies Bible study on prayer and is very easy to use as she gives questions to answer with scripture to look up on prayer. Which means there is a lot that I want to go back to and re-read. As I flip back through the pages of this book, I am amazed at all the underlining and highlighting I did as I read. She uses a lot of scripture, which I always appreciate, and also found some excellent quotes from great men and women of the faith that I also greatly enjoyed. If I could quote from the Preface of this book it summarizes the purpose of the book very well: "I stand in the need of spending time in prayer", "to deepen your understanding of prayer so that you can pray more effectively and draw closer to our Lord.", "The underlying principle of prayer, which overwhelmed me, is that God desires to be intimate with me and He wants this relationship so much that He invites, encourages and helps me to pray".The author does a great job of helping you understand the purpose and goal of our prayer life.
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