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PRAYER THE HEART OF IT ALL Biblical Principles with Practical Models by P. Douglas Small NEW BOOK AND RESOURCE KIT A live Publications, the publishing arm of PROJECT PRAY released in 2017, Prayer – The Heart of It All. This resource is available as a book, study guide and resource kit. Grow deeper in your prayer life by discovering why God wants us to pray. Discover how to: develop a personal prayer life; pray together as a family; start a prayer ministry in your church; pray missionally for others and for a Great Awakening. The study guide is unique in that it was developed to be used a personal study guide or with a group. The guide out- lines important ideas and major concepts. It provides a meth- od to move ideas from your head to your heart and then out to your feet and hands (new deeds and habit patterns). Also included are rating sheets to measure your growth and addi- tional goals for overachievers. The study guide provides a dai- ly prayer guide with devotions, scripture and prayer points. The Group It section can be used with the Resource Kit or a group can simply use the discussion guide in the Group It section. The Resource Kit offers the the best tool for group learn- ing. Included in the kit is a book, personal and group study guide, flash drive with teaching guide, power point file with over 250 slides keyed to the book and 14 video sessions, one video for each chapter. o LIMITED TIME OFFER (refer to Evangel Ad) Purchase the Resource Kit, 10 books and 10 study guides for — $199 — (retail value $399) Resource Kit for personal or group learning includes: • Book • Personal Study Guide with Group It Discussion Section and Daily Devotions • Teaching Guide (pdf file) • PowerPoint File with over 250 slides keyed to the book • 14 Video Sessions – one video for each chapter 10 www.alivepublications.org 855-84-ALIVE Prayer does not fit us for the prayer is the great greater work, er work. Oswald Chambers PRAYER THE HEART Biblical Principles with PERSONAL ST WITH GROUP OF IT ALL Practical Mode ls UDY GUIDE IT SECTION P. Douglas Sma ll EXERPT FROM THE BOOK I had been involved in ministry for over 25 years when I admitted to God that I didn’t understand prayer. Involved in the prayer summit movement, I spent days at retreat cen- ters with pastors of almost every denomination. We prayed morning, noon and night. We encountered God. I was im- measurably enriched and forever changed. I had found the heart of ministry – the pursuit of His presence. Still, I longed to understand the workings of prayer. My quest ultimately sent me back to Scripture; specifi- cally, to the prayers of the Bible. Those prayers provided in- sights that radically changed my perspective. Prayer, I dis- covered, wasn’t fundamentally “asking of God” – petition. Nor was the center of prayer passionate intercession. It wasn’t simply “talking to God” or engaging in any one of a host of other valuable prayer functions – meditation, supplica- tion, beseeching, crying out, petition, adoration, confession, thanksgiving, praise, supplication and more. Prayer involves discerning, wrestling, resting, pulling-down, rooting-out, warfare, reconciliation, agreement, watching, resting, hear- ing and obeying. It encompasses all of these, but it is more than even the sum total of these components.