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    How to Pray in a Crisis: A 4-Step Guide to Renewal
    How to Pray in a Crisis: A 4-Step Guide to Renewal
    How to Pray in a Crisis: A 4-Step Guide to Renewal
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    How to Pray in a Crisis: A 4-Step Guide to Renewal

    By Daniel Henderson and Mark Vroegop

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    Experience God through a Crisis—And through Prayer

    Today we are living through one of the most remarkable human crises in history. The COVID-19 pandemic has halted life as we know it and left us unable to imagine what life ahead may be like. In a time of such uncertainty, we must turn to the Lord for peace—we must turn to the Lord in prayer.

    How to Pray in a Crisis outlines how God can use a crisis to draw His people near to Him. This four-step guide will help you understand the nature of prayer and how it can lead to spiritual renewal in your life. Learn to pray with conviction, competency, community, and in a way that inspires others. Experience the power of God through life-transforming prayer that incites supernatural gospel impact on our world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9780802499707
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    Daniel Henderson

    For almost three decades Daniel Henderson (www.strategicrenewal.com) was a pastor to thousands in congregations in California and Minnesota. He serves as founder and president of Strategic Renewal International and is also the national director for The 6:4 Fellowship (www.64fellowship.com). As a "pastor to pastors," he leads renewal events at local churches, speaks in a variety of leadership conferences, and coaches leaders across North America. Daniel is the author of ten books. He and his wife, Rosemary, live near Denver, Colorado.

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      How to Pray in a Crisis - Daniel Henderson

      © 2020 by DANIEL HENDERSON

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Portions of this book are adapted from Daniel Henderson’s books Old Paths, New Power: Awakening Your Church through Prayer and the Ministry of the Word (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2016); Transforming Prayer: How Everything Changes When You Seek God’s Face (Bloomington, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2011); and Transforming Presence: How the Holy Spirit Changes Everything from the Inside-Out (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2018).

      Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James Version.

      Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible ® (NASB), Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org

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      All emphasis in Scripture has been added.

      Edited by Connor Sterchi

      Interior Design: Erik M. Peterson

      Cover Design: Kaylee Lockenour

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940743

      ISBN: 978-0-8024-2359-7

      eBook ISBN: 978-0-8024-9970-7

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      CONTENTS 

      Foreword

      Introduction: The Crossroads of Your Crisis

      Step One: Decide to Let God Birth Fresh CONVICTION

      Step Two: Devote Yourself to a Consistent Experience of Praying in COMMUNITY

      Step Three: Develop Your Biblical, Life-Giving Prayer COMPETENCY

      Step Four: Determine You’ll Become Spiritually CONTAGIOUS

      Appendix One: 100,000 Agents of Renewal

      Appendix Two: The Essential Priority of Praying with Your Spouse

      Appendix Three: The Regular Practice of Prayer in the Home

      Notes

      Friend,

      Thank you for choosing to read this Moody Publishers title. It is our hope and prayer that this book will help you to know Jesus Christ more personally and love Him more deeply.

      The proceeds from your purchase help pay the tuition of students attending Moody Bible Institute. These students come from around the globe and graduate better equipped to impact our world for Christ.

      Other Moody Ministries that may be of interest to you include Moody Radio and Moody Distance Learning. To learn more visit www.moodyradio.org and www.moody.edu/distance-learning.

      To enhance your reading experience we’ve made it easy to share inspiring passages and thought-provoking quotes with your friends via Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, and other book-sharing sites. To do so, simply highlight and forward. And don’t forget to put this book on your Reading Shelf on your book community site.

      Thanks again, and may God bless you.

      The Moody Publishers Team

      FOREWORD

      Trials in my life and ministry have taught me an important lesson: hard is hard; hard is not bad. Difficult times bring struggles and questions. Pain makes way for lament—a prayer language to navigate between the poles of a hard life and God’s sovereignty.

      After my wife and I endured the heart-breaking loss of a stillborn daughter, lament became a new grace in my life. I discovered that prayers of lament helped me through struggle and pain. Prayer, especially lament, is a humble turning to God in the crisis for a believer living through crisis.

      Crisis reorients our hearts toward what is true. But for that to happen, we must to turn to prayer. The silence must end. Frustration and discouragement might tempt us to stop talking to God. But He is able to turn our honest questions into confident trust in our hardest times.

      We cannot stop making this turn toward trust. We learn to live in the tension of pain beyond belief and divine sovereignty beyond comprehension by faith. Trust will always lead us to a place of praise. We can actually learn to sing and worship when crisis comes our way.

      What we learn must then become what we live. This is where How to Pray in a Crisis by my friend Daniel Henderson comes in. No one has taught me more about the practice of prayer. Daniel is the rare combination of theologian and practitioner. He’s studied prayer while leading people in prayer. And that experience is why he’s the perfect person to write a book about praying in a crisis. He’s done it. Lived it. Many times.

      This book guides you into the fullness of what God wants to teach you in, through, and beyond your crisis. A new lifestyle of biblical conviction and rich community awaits you. A fresh discovery of competency in prayer can be yours. You will be invited to vital participation in a hopeful and supernatural advancement of the gospel into our crisis-plagued world.

      The promise for Christians in crisis is as glorious as it is deep. The cross shows us that God has already proven Himself to be for us, not against us, no matter what we face. Jesus bought the right to make everything right:

      As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep

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