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Empower Your Prayer Life, Read: PRAYING IS NOT FOR WIMPS
Make your prayer life powerful. Learn how to personally interact with God when praying. Find the keys to develop a strong spiritual connection to God.
People usually think of praying as simply talking to God. This is not true! Real praying is the actual spiritual interaction that takes place between an individual and God when they engage each other. By reading, Praying is not for Wimps by Dr. Freddy Davis you will find the keys to developing the strongest possible connection with God in the spiritual battlefield.
When thinking of prayer, our tendency, is to consider it in terms of the words we use to address God. Along that vein, very intelligent people have, over the years, identified the categories of conversation that are typical to praying. You are, no doubt, familiar with the most common ones - praise/adoration, thanksgiving, confession, intercession, petition, and so on. Other very smart people have come along and developed systems to help us be more effective in organizing the categories so that we have methods to help us pray.
Dr. Freddy has nothing bad to say about these categories or the systems. However, if we believe that praying is simply following a systematic approach to organizing the words we speak to God, we are sadly mistaken. We certainly speak when we pray, but if we are not standing in the presence of God when we speak, we have not prayed.
Praying is not uttering words, it is communing with God. The first step that must happen, before we ever utter a single word, is to step into the presence of God. We do that by the use of our imagination and thoughts. This does not mean that we are creating something artificial. God is a real, objective person. It is just that he is pure spirit. We have to realize that the essence of communication with God is spiritual, and we have to place ourselves in a mode to communicate with him on that level. Once that step is taken we are able to move beyond merely saying things to God. We can engage him in conversation.
People who read Praying is not for Wimps will learn:
1. How praying, in its essence, is a personal interaction with God,
2. The nature of the God we pray to,
3. Why it is possible for us to have a personal conversation with God,
4. How praying is more than merely following a ritualized formula,
5. What it takes to develop our prayer life to higher levels, and
6. What we can do, specifically, to make our praying more effective.
Dr. Freddy Davis is currently one of the pastoral staff of The Church at Southwood in Tallahassee, FL. He also owns TSM Enterprises and serves as a speaker for churches, businesses and other organizations. For primarily secular organizations, Freddy speaks on the topics of personal development, motivation, decision making, influence, and leadership. His topics for churches include, effective praying, how to effectively fight the culture war.
He received his BS in Communications from Florida State University as well as an MDiv and DMin from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to starting and pastoring churches in the U.S., he spent 16½ years serving overseas as a missionary (11½ years in Japan and 5 years in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia).
Freddy has been married to his wife, Deborah, for thirty years and has 16 year old son, Ken.
Other books by Freddy:
Supercharged! © 2001
Decision Making in a Nutshell © 2004
Influence in a Nutshell © 2004
Praying is not for Wimps © 2004
Personal Development in a Nutshell © 2004
Leadership in a Nutshell © 2005
Total Freedom © 2005
The Culture War is not for Wimps Coming soon
To order Praying is not for Wimps or other books by Dr. Freddy;
or to arrange for personal speaking engagement contact:
Freddy Davis
321 Anton Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32312
850-383-9756
