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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.32
EAN num: 9780830733910
ISBN number: 0830733914
Label: Vine Books
Manufacturer: Vine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 196
Printing Date: 2001-07
Publishing house: Vine Books
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As believers in Jesus Christ, we have been invited into a loving relationship with God as Father and Friend-a relationship that allows us to intercede for others. As we intercede, we take the place of another-loved one or stranger, individual or nation-in prayer. If our primary motivation for prayer becomes interceding to achieve the results we desire, we will ultimately fail. But when we approach intercession as an opportunity to partner with our wonderful Father, and when we intercede with His will in mind, we draw into a deeper, more intimate relationship with God. We also find ourselves being used by God to make history and change lives.
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Let it suffice to say,
my copy of this particular book is dog eared,
highlighted, underlined, and well read!
This is a great book on intercession!
It is a very easy read and surprisingly, quite humorous in appropriate places.
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Dutch Sheets is a wonderful author and teacher. He easily conveys God's truths in everyday language and plenty of life stories to illustrate his points. This should be a must-read for every Christian.
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While I would have wished for more specifics on how to interceed, I found the book to be a great motivator. Mr. Sheet's chapter on praying for the unsaved was very specific and useful.
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I read the Spanish translation of this book.
I've read this book several times. I intend to read it again with pad and paper at hand. It has had a noticeable effect on my personal prayer life as well as my outlook on the Christian life, churches and accomplishing the Great Commission. I very first noticed the positive effect that it was having on me when someone found it necessary to wake me up in the middle of the night to ask me to pray.
Although it is identified as a Beginner's Guide, it seems very comprehensive as far as the extent that it discusses Biblical doctrines with respect to prayer and intercession. It provides a good foundation for prayer.
First and foremost, the author makes it clear that the absolute foundation of intercession is a relationship with God. The intercessor should make that the absolute priority for without that you might as well not even go on to Chapter 2.
Other topics discussed are perseverance, group intercession, faith, intercession for non-believers, and the ever asked question, "Why?" Why is prayer necessary given that God knows what we are going to ask even before we ask it?
Also, it should be said that the principles outlined in this book are totally Biblical. The author can perhaps be described as leaning towards the Charismatic/Pentecostal persuasion in Christianity, but this book does not fixate on that persuasion. It is not extra-biblical, and the principles taught in this book can be understood and applied by people who are of the Charismatic/Pentecostal persuasion and by those who are not. It's a very Biblically sound book.
One topic that is disappointingly not discussed is the act of "abiding". "If you abide in me and my words abide in you..." What does it mean to "abide" in Him? I think a chapter should have been devoted to that. But even with that absent, the book is tremendous, and applying the Biblical principles in this book has had a startling effect on my prayer life.
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Most "Christians" here in the West know very little of what it means to pray. We have many sermons on prayer but no true pray-ers. We have many books on prayer (just do a search here on Amazon) but we don't know how to pray. Nonetheless, Jesus' disciples asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1) because they saw the power of prayer at work in Jesus' life (Luke 5:16; 6:12; 18:1-8).
This book is a good introduction to the life and work of the intercessor. While I believe that all disciples should be intercessors according to 1 Timothy 2:1-2, Sheets gives a strong view that God is raising up intercessors in these end times. While the book is good reading and easy to grasp, the book does lack biblical exegesis on prayer. We should be motivated to pray more from the Scriptures than from the examples or experiences of other Christians. We should pray out of obedience (John 14:12-15) and not just from a desire to have experiences.
If you long to pray, to touch the throne of God (Hebrews 4:14-16), to pray for the lost (Romans 10:1), to seek God's will (1 John 5:14-15), to pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17), to pray in the Spirit (Romans 8:26-27; Eph. 6:18; Jude 20), to devote yourself to prayer (Romans 12:12; Colossians 4:2) then this book is a good edition to your biblical library.
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