Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority
New York Times best-selling author of Wild at Heart John Eldredge offers readers a step-by-step guide to effective Christian prayer.
How would it feel to enter into prayer with confidence and assurance—certain that God heard you and that your prayers would make a difference?
It would likely feel amazing and unfamiliar. That’s because often our prayers seem to be met with silence or don’t appear to change anything. Either response can lead to disappointment or even despair in the face of our ongoing battles and unmet longings—especially when we don’t know if we’re doing something wrong or if some prayers just don’t work.
New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge confronts these issues directly in Moving Mountains by offering a hopeful approach to prayer that is effective, relational, and rarely experienced by most Christians.
In a world filled with danger, adventure, and wonder, we have at our disposal prayers that can transform the events and issues that matter most to us and to God. Moving Mountains shows you how to experience the power of daily prayer, learn the major types of prayers—including those of intervention, consecration, warfare, and healing—and to discover the intimacy of the cry of the heart prayer, listening prayer, and praying Scripture.
Things can be different, and you personally have a role to play with God in bringing about that change through prayer. It may sound too good to be true, but this is your invitation to engage in the kind of prayers that can move God's heart as well as the mountains before you.
Moving Mountains is also available in Spanish, Mueve montañas. To dive deeper into the Moving Mountains message, the Moving Mountains study guide and video study are available now.
Top Highlights
“It reminds me of Augustine’s line, ‘Without God, we cannot, and without us, he will not.’” (source)
“As C. S. Lewis said, ‘He seems to do nothing of Himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye. Creation seems to be delegation through and through.’3 The delegation not only of major tasks but also of the authority to get them done.” (source)
“The inner healing that occurs is more beautiful than anything in nature that has taken your breath away. For the heart and soul of a human being is worth far more than all the beautiful places in the world.” (source)
“Look, let’s go ahead and name the elephant in the room—some prayers work, and some prayers don’t. Why does that surprise and irritate us?” (source)
“The invasion of the kingdom of God is something that is still unfolding, right now, today” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority
- Author: Eldredge, John
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9780718037666