Every Season Prayers: Gospel-Centered Prayers for the Whole of Life

by Scotty Smith, Elyse Fitzpatrick

Overview

Topically Arranged Prayers for Individual, Family, and Church

God calls us to pray, and we want to talk to our heavenly Father. But so often we don't know what to say, or we feel like our words are getting no higher than the ceiling above us. Prayer should draw us closer to God, but guilt over past prayerlessness or confusion over what to pray can have the opposite result.

In the pages of Every Season Prayers, pastor Scotty Smith offers readers a treasure trove of prayers that will lead them into a more intimate relationship with God. Topically arranged so readers can easily find the sentiments that match their needs, issues, and moods, this delightful book includes prayers for:

· everyday concerns, from health and relationship issues to expressing gratitude
· voicing our feelings, stories, and struggles to God
· listening to the heart of God
· congregational confession and worship
· Advent, Lent, and Passion Week
· and more

No matter what their season of life or their daily reality, readers will find a prayer that they can lift up to God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493401499
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/02/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	907,239
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Scotty Smith is founding pastor of Christ Community Church (PCA) in Franklin, Tennessee. He is now teacher in residence at West End Community Church (PCA) in Nashville, a daughter church of CCC. Scotty also serves as an adjunct professor at five seminaries, including Covenant, Westminster, Redeemer, RTS Orlando, and Western Seminary in Portland. He is the author of several books, including Everyday Prayers, as well as Unveiled Hope with Michael Card and Speechless and Restoring Broken Things with Steven Curtis Chapman.
Scotty Smith is founding pastor of Christ Community Church (PCA) in Franklin, Tennessee, and has seen its membership grow to over 3,000 (including many notable CCM musicians and insiders). He has also planted five daughter churches in the Nashville area. Scotty is also an adjunct professor at Covenant Theological Seminary and regularly teaches at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He is the author of five books, including Speechless and Restoring Broken Things with Steven Curtis Chapman.

Table of Contents

Foreword Elyse Fitzpatrick 13

Introduction 17

1 Prayers for All Occasions 21

2 Praying the Scriptures Verse by Verse 148

3 Prayers for Preaching the Gospel to Our Hearts 166

4 Prayers for Expressing Our Feelings, Stories, and Struggles to God 183

5 Prayers for Listening to the Heart of God 203

6 Prayers of Lament 215

7 Short and Simple Prayers 220

8 Prayers for Married Couples to Pray Together 228

9 What Does Jesus Pray for Us?: A Ten-Day Prayer Journey through the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus 234

10 Prayers of Confession: Acknowledging Our Needs and God's Grace 254

11 Prayers for the Season of Advent 280

12 Prayers for the Season of Lent and Passion Week 317