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Prayer Coach: For All Who Want to Get Off the Bench and onto the Praying Field
"Do you wish you were a better prayer?" Pose this question to any believer and the answer would likely be a resounding "yes!" While a strong prayer life is the desire of many believers, the reality is often difficult to come by. In Prayer Coach, James L. Nicodem begins with a frank discussion about the obstacles of prayer and then offers practical suggestions and basic principles on how a reader can strengthen his or her prayer life and bring depth to this spiritual discipline. As readers apply the methods taught in this book, they will learn to approach the throne of God with passion, fervency, and confidence.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published June 30, 2008
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July 10, 2024
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.
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.
December 8, 2019
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!
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!
December 31, 2009
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?”
February 27, 2011
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.
December 8, 2010
Great book on Prayer!
March 23, 2015
Good, informative, helpful.
April 10, 2015
A great book on prayer! I've grown much in my prayer life as I've read it.
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