True accounts of prayer in action.Come along with other prayer warriors and read their stories. Some of the stories will make you cry while others will make you laugh. Each story ends with a confession from the writer in which he or she shares an insight about prayer or something new they learned through their experience.Readers of Prayer Warrior Confessions will learn more about prayer as they … learn more about prayer as they enjoy the true and candid stories of other people’s experiences with prayer. They see the stories through the writers’ eyes and glean the insights the writers learned.
True stories of prayer in action that will make you cry, laugh, sigh, smile, and stand amazed.
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Prayer Warrior Confessions represents a compilation of real-life testimonies involving prayer. The authors do a fantastic job of pulling the reader into the book and realizing just how truly powerful prayer can be. I like how each testimony stands alone so you can take your time reading the book in order to contemplate what importance prayer played in the entry. This book will inspire, amaze and delight you as you read it. So if you are looking for a book that demonstrates the tremendous power of prayer, check this book out for yourself. I received a copy of this book for my fair review.
Prayer warriors confessions
A collection of short stories by the authors where prayer was involved. I found the true stories to be very interesting and inspiring. At the end of each story there is an confession. One of those was “we often turn to prayer when all else fails”. This is so true, we should be praying first not after we had already done everything ourselves. I also loved this one “I learned to pray at the feet of my father”. One section was titled “ I Know the Plans I Have for you” , that is something we always need to remember but very hard to do. We need to trust in God for he already knows the plans.
The authors were children of missionaries and I think that made the stories so much more interesting. Prayer definitely does make a difference. This is an fantastic book.
I received an complementary copy of the book from Celebrate Lit. All opinions are my own.
The stories in this book helped me to remember that He doesn’t care how small or unimportant a prayer may seem to some; He wants us to have faith that He hears us and answers prayers in His own way. There were many stories in here that made me cry and gave me hope. What a wonderful feeling to know that your parents pray for you daily. We may not know who prays for us, but through these stories those prayers are powerful and are heard.
The one story that really stood out to me was “When My Son Calls.” I have three sons and I related to the author’s wonderful journey with her sons. Like the author, when one of my grown sons call, I get excited and a bit anxious at the same time. They are each different but bless my husband and I everyday. One is very outgoing and loves to give hugs. The other two are more reserved and quiet. I cried as I read this story because I know how much I love to hear from my boys. I did forget that God likes to hear from His children as well. He wants us to talk to Him, come to Him in prayer and spend time with Him. Thank you for reminding me that as a child of God, I need to spend more time with Him in prayer.
Prayer is such a vital part of a Christian’s life and I have always thought that no matter how insignificant a prayer may seem to some, for me it was of the most powerful ways to talk to God. He does hear our prayers but He may not always answer them the way we want. I encourage you to take your time reading through this book and allow the words to encourage you, bless you and remind you how powerful prayer is.
I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.
One of my goals this year was to become a prayer warrior. (I’ve done pretty well in working towards that goal. So much room to grow, but this year I developed greater consistency than ever before. Baby steps!). So it seemed fitting that I would finish off the year by reading a book called Prayer Warrior Confessions. This book is a collection of prayer stories from the lives of the editors and others. Here’s what I thought about it:
#1 Prayer Warrior Confessions was not what I expected.
But not in a bad way! When I think of “prayer warriors,” I think of folks going to battle in prayer for big things and getting big results. I think of the movie War Room. Obviously, it’s a lot more than that. My own journey to grow into the prayer warrior God created me to be has been first a fight for consistency in the small things. But I expected a book about prayer warrior confessions to be about those big victories. And indeed, there were many of those stories in this book! But there were also stories that would seem much smaller, and even some stories that didn’t seem like they were about prayer at all. And then there were some that the world might not consider victories…but they were still answered prayers.
#2 I loved the missions stories in Prayer Warrior Confessions.
I’ve always been a sucker for missions stories. My mom grew up as a missionary kid, just like the compilers of Prayer Warrior Confessions, and between home and Missionettes (now Mpact Girls), I read and heard stories of God’s work on the mission field over and over. They are still some of my favorites. I loved the way that many of the stories in this book were missions stories. Not all of them, lest we fall into the trap of thinking God only answers prayers in big ways on the mission field. But enough of them to remind us of a faith that God desires for all of us.
#3 Some of these prayer warriors got off topic on their preambles.
Some of them lost me for a bit. They would get into a little too much backstory, so I was confused about where some of the stories were going, or how those events or descriptions related to the point of the story. If there is one thing I would change about this book, that would be it…trim some of those introductions that were longer than the prayer stories themselves. That memory might be really special to you since you experienced it, and in the right context, it might even be really special to me. But if it causes me to lose your point, you might be robbing from the impact of this little book.
Would I recommend Prayer Warrior Confessions?
Yes. Despite #3 above, I think this was a really enjoyable little book and would even be neat to read as a family with older kids. (Some of the subject matter may be a little too intense for little kids).
I received a review copy of this book; all opinions are my own.