Prayer That Shapes the Future

by Douglas McMurry, Brad Long, Doug McMurry

Book Overview

Filled with examples and personal illustrations, this book explores what is dynamic prayer, how God enables prayer, how dynamic prayer works, and how to pray for our spheres of influence. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031022540X
• ISBN13: 9780310225409
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Enlightning, genius is a understatement.

This book has deeply effected my life, his propheticly haunting words are poetry in motion. His insights have guided me and his life inspired me. I cannot recommend this book to enough people. My advice is too buy this book as soon as possible, you will never be the same. On the philosophcal side it is enlightening and heartning, forging deep into the matters of the heart and spirit. Five stars is not enough for this masterpiece.

My Copy Is Chocked-Full of My Notes and Underlines

God is building faith into my daily life. And by writing PRAYER THAT SHAPES THE FUTURE Brad Long and Doug McMurray have been great architects and general contractors. I read the third section of the book first--"How To Gain God's Vision and Bring It To Birth." These seven chapters helped me to see that it is in prayer that God births his visions for a new ministry or a way for us to simply care for another person or persons. And then Long and McMurray offer a step-by-step process path to help us make concrete the received vision: write it down, share it with others, form a prayer group, observe relevant models, refine the vision, and then start. This book is a wonderful faith-building resource with sound biblical direction and practical advice for helping believers live by faith and express faith through love in tangible life-giving ways.

Prayer empowers God's vision into reality.

Holy Spirit directed prayer is the vehicle through which God's vision(s) for his world become realities . . . first by our careful listening to the Spirit's direction for the vision; secondly by our discerning and confirming the vision with other Holy Spirit filled believers; and finally by praying the vision into reality. Long and McMurry carefully lead one through each of these steps and empower the believer to a fuller and deeper relationship with Christ.