Prayer Coach: For all who want to get off the Bench and onto the praying Field

by James L. Nicodem, Bobby Bowden (Foreword)

What could be easier than prayer? It can be done anytime, anywhere, and in any situation. It doesn’t require special clothes or expensive equipment. In fact, it’s absolutely free. So why don’t more Christians have rich, full, deep prayer lives? In Prayer Coach, pastor James Nicodem tackles this spiritual discipline, as he uses Scripture, practical applications, and personal experience to help people overcome their prayerlessness. The popular pastor has never been a professional coach—he has only officially coached his daughter’s soccer team—but he is eminently qualified for the position of prayer coach. Prayer Coach also features a foreword by one of the winningest coaches in college football, Bobby Bowden of Florida State University.In a society filled with life coaches, financial coaches, and even wardrobe coaches, Nicodem’s Prayer Coach fills the obvious but often overlooked role of training Christians to engage their Father via prayer. Using a simple, nuts-and-bolts approach, Nicodem—like all good coaches—begins with fundamentals, showing the rookie the ropes. Insight from Nicodem’s own experiences will give readers relevant helps and useful hints as they begin toestablish, or reestablish, one of the most vital disciplines of the Christian life. After internalizing Prayer Coach, readers will be ready to take the field of life equipped with a healthy, scriptural understanding of what prayer is and how important it is to converse with God. Time and time again Christians decide that they ought to pray, pray more, or pray more consistently. Often, though, the plans remain just plans. Prayer Coach will equip readers to make their hopes leap from the play book into the daily grind. Perfect for individuals, small groups, or church studies, Prayer Coach concludes each chapter with questions to think about and/or discuss. Whether you have been praying for years, planning to do it eventually, or avoiding the topic altogether, Prayer Coach will help you revitalize and reactivate your prayer life, while guiding and encouraging you to the overall a growing, vibrant prayer life with Christ.

Genres: Prayer, Christian

258 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2008

Reviews

[Dan Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great practicality

The Prayer Coach provides a great practical outline of why and how to pray. The prayer life of a Christian should always be practiced and perfected much like an elite athlete practices to be the best in their sport. I recommend this book to anyone (which should be everyone) that wants to better their prayer life.

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phenomenal! One of the best books I've read in a long time.

His insights are amazing. Bible passages that I've read hundreds of times, memorized, quoted, and even taught on, he helped me to see in a new light. These passages mentioned prayer, but I was always focused on the other emphases in them, missing the insight into prayer that they offered. Nicodem brings those insights to the forefront and applies them with a surgeon's precision. Obvious statements that I had overlooked. Some even a bit scary in what they reveal, leaving me reeling for having missed them for so long.

His application and practical advice is what makes this book so wonderful to me. He not only teaches about prayer, but gives the reader practical, tangible ways to practice it. I've already started giving this book as a gift to others because they just have to read it and learn from Nicodem's biblical teaching. I think I'll have to make it a regular habit to reread this book often to keep myself on top of practicing prayer in all the ways it teaches.

Thank you God for leading me to this book!

[Minnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve discovered that I sometimes worry without even realizing that I’m worrying. I’m like the duck that appears to be floating along serenely while below the waterline it’s paddling desperately. Impatience or irritability are usually the tip-off that some invisible anxiety is gnawing away at me. I actually have to go to God on these occasions and ask, “Lord, would you help me define what I’m worried about?”

[Carol Schultz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read a number of books on prayer and this book seems to have a chapter on each of the books I have read previously so is excellent on covering the basics including the effect of praise, spiritual warfare, and praying without ceasing. The author provides many personal humorous stories to make it a very easy but thoughtful read. Would be very good book to study in a small group setting and has questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate thought and discussion.

[Greg White · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book on Prayer!

[Tanya Procknow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, informative, helpful.

[Rick · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book on prayer! I've grown much in my prayer life as I've read it.