Kez's Reviews > How to Pray

While this book had some good principles to share on occasion, it perhaps should have been titled, "How to manipulate God to get stuff from him." There is no mention in this book of prayer or its purpose being anything other than to ask for things... most of them earthly. There is no mention of prayer with God being about relationship with God. No mention of prayer being a way to get God himself. No mention of prayer being a way to worship God and praise Him for who He is... for his glorious majesty and goodness. No mention of prayer being a means to change us to be more like his son. Instead it looks at prayer seemingly as a means to twist God's arm to get what you want. It pays lip-service to not being legalistic about prayer, but goes on to describe all the things you must do and mustn't do (including no dancing or theatre or the like) if your prayers are to be answered. And this book claims your prayers absolutely will be answered if you can just tick all the right boxes. And if they haven't been answered, then you haven't managed to root out the hidden sins in your life enough or given enough money to the church, etc. This book is not about grace or a God who hears the cries of desperate sinners not based on our own merit, but on the merit of Jesus Christ and him crucified. This is a book about prayer as a means to get things and not much beyond that. A disappointing and limiting look at prayer in my opinion.