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Comprehensive Guide to Spiritual Renewal
Based on Simple but Profound Truth:
While We May Lose Touch with God,
God Never Loses Touch with Us
NEW YORK, NY—Faced with a “prayer-paralysis” when she was diagnosed with cancer, author Marci Alborghetti has used her own experiences to fashion a practical guide to prayer. Prayer Power: How to Pray When You Think You Can’t (GuidepostsBooks, October 2007).
Marci explores the questions that many people face: What is prayer? And How do we pray? She understands that people pray in different ways and use different methods. Prayer, at its most basic level, is a conversation with God, however we may name God: I Am Who. I Am. Jesus….Creator. Father. Exalted One. Almighty. Marci explains that God is not a demanding conversationalist and doesn’t need us to have a high IQ or an extensive vocabulary. He doesn’t even need us to speak. “When you welcome God into your heart and mind, you can tell Him about your fear….Such intimate, silent communication is as sincere a form of prayer as any spoken word.”
When we need to call out to God the most, when we’re ill or debilitated, can also be the time when we feel least able to do so. “We all face obstacles in life,” says Marci, “among them are illness, grief, disappointment, failure, anger, fear, addiction, divorce, sorrow and—today especially—a sense of despair about the state of our world. And while any one of these obstacles, or a combination of them, may cause us to feel unable to pray and out of touch with God, God never loses touch with us.”
Marci offers down-to-earth, practical guidance on putting prayer to work for the reader’s specific needs. Using the Bible’s treasury of prayer—the Psalms—as a place for readers to start, she provides model prayers and Bible verses to use for meditation. Marci also gives real-life examples from her personal experiences as well as from the experiences of people she’s met along her journey.
Each chapter focuses on a particular problem that can make prayer difficult.
Chapters include:
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When you’re Ill
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When you’re facing emotional problems
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When you’re a caregiver
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When you’re mourning
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When you’re troubled by doubts
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When you’re angry and fearful
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When dangers threaten
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When you feel that you’ve failed
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When you need to trust
“This book comes at a time when many people are at a loss for how to cope,” says Marilyn Moore, Editor-in-Chief of GuidepostsBooks. “Marci has lived through some very difficult times and Prayer Power: How to Pray When You Think You Can’t is her answer to the burdens that weigh on people today.”
Prayer Power: How to Pray When You Think You Can’t is a book readers will turn to for those times when life challenges their faith. This book will help them find their path back to prayer and to God, Who, as Marci says, “will be found precisely where we left Him.”
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June 2007
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Prayer Power: How to Pray When You Think You Can’t
By Marci Alborghetti
ISBN-13:
978-0-8249-4716-3
Price: $16.99 U.S. $22.50 Canada
Page ct: 256
Trim size: 6 x 9
Binding: hardcover with jacket
Pub Date: October 2007
Category: Prayer/Inspirational