I would come into prayer and lay out my earnest. What did it look like for you to become a better prayer?įor me it was the realization that, first off, my prayers were very one-sided. I think we’re sort of surprised to discover that prayer is exactly like that. The big thought is that prayer is something you learn and you grow into like anything else in life. I think prayer can make a difference in those scenarios, but that’s just not kind. That’s like learning to ski by starting on double black diamonds. You waited until there was the phone call, and your friend’s in a bad place and then you started praying. You waited until you got the divorce papers served. I think if we pushed a little bit more into those stories, here is probably what we would find: We waited until the house was on fire. Here’s what I think has happened in so many of those cases: There’s been a disappointment there was something that really meant a lot that we were praying about and nothing seemed to change. Why is it do you think that people have given up on prayer? We talked with Eldredge about what he learned and about how we can all learn to pray better. “I think the book really came out of a heart to restore hope in folks, and to share a little bit of our story with them and try and inspire some confidence,” he explains. Earlier this month, he released Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority. Even though they’ve been follower of Christ for a long time, they essentially had to learn how to pray later in life-including learning to stop telling people they would pray for them.Īs he explored prayer more and more and deeper and deeper, he began to form a book about it-afterall, he is John Eldredge. At the same time they were learning more about prayer, Eldredge says, he talked to many of his friends who were simply giving up on prayer. One of the things they’ve gone through is recognizing, when they’re really honest with themselves, they don’t pray nearly as much as they want. In addition to his work as widely influential author-he is the bestselling author of Wild at Heart-Eldredge is the president of Ransomed Heart, a multi-faceted resource ministry that for Christians. “You know: The marriage stuff, and the kids stuff, finances and all that,” he says. John Eldredge and his wife have been through a lot over the past 30 years.
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