Book Review: When We Pray Like Jesus

 

When We Pray Like Jesus

Courageously Honest and Fearlessly Abandoned before God

by Elisa Morgan

 Our Daily Bread Publishing 

 Christian  |  Religion & Spirituality 

Pub Date 01 Jun 2020

I am reviewing a copy of When We Pray Like Jesus through Our Daily Bread Publishing and Netgalley:

When We Pray Like Jesus reminds us that we look to the Lord’s Prayer for guidance that we mouth our own prayers after its formula.  We beg God  to intervene according to the model of of The Lord’s Prayer.  But it does not always work, and that is because the Fall has pulled us farther away from God, making it more difficult for us to get as close to him as we should.  We pray constantly but far to often it does not seem enough.

When We Pray Like Jesus encourages us to do something different in our prayer life. We are reminded that their are two sides of a prayer take this cup, is the honest side, and if it’s not hid will we need to abandon it.  Author Elisa Morgan shows us that When We Pray Like Jesus’s chapters alternate in a rhythm between Jesus’ model of prayer and our practicing His example.

Elisa Morgan reminds us that Jesus lived prayer, he prayed like he breathed.  We are reminded that Jesus prayed all the time, that he punctuated events and decisions with words to his Father.

Even Jesus had asked his Father to take his cup, while he was on the cross.   This book reminds us that as Children we are honest until we learn not to be.  

We are reminded too nothing could separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus.  We are reminded too that Jesus prayed His prayer coin of honest and abandon, embracing the intimacy.  That if Jesus died  to provide a close relationship between his Father we need to enter into that relationship.

When We Pray Like Jesus reminds us that we can totally be honest with Jesus.  Jesus wants to know exactly how we feel, this book will help to share our deepest emotions to God and have confidence in His will for your life.   This book allows us to explore Jesus’s prayer in the garden of Gethsemane and see His ultimate example of intimacy with the Father.  This book shows us that we can trust God in the same way.

I give When We Pray Like Jesus five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!