Quiet Talks On Prayer
Gordon's extensive study of prayer's meaning, mission, and practice in Christian life, positioning prayer as the chief power available to believers—greater than any other single work—because it opens the channel for God's action in the world.
65 Chapters
Table of Contents
1
I. The Meaning And Mission Of Prayer
2
Five Outlets of Power.
3
In touch with a planet.
4
Intercession is Service.
5
The Spirit Switchboard.
6
The Broad Inner Horizon.
7
A Prehistoric Conflict.
8
Prayer is Projecting One's Spirit Personality.
9
Giving God a Fresh Footing.
10
Prayer a War Measure.
11
Three Forms of Prayer.
12
The Climax of Prayer.
13
Six Facts Underlying Prayer.
14
The Victor's Great Plan.
15
How God Gives.
16
A Very Old Question.
17
The Greatest Prayer.
18
II. Hindrances to Prayer
19
Breaking with God.
20
A Coaling Station for Satan's Fleet.
21
The Shortest Way to God.
22
Search Me.
23
God's Pathway to Human Hearts.
24
For the Sake of a Nation.
25
That More Might be Given and Gotten.
26
The Best Light for Studying a Thorn.
27
Shaping a Prayer on the Anvil of the Knees.
28
The Traitor Prince.
29
Praying is Fighting.
30
A double Wrestling Match.
31
Prayer Concerns Three.
32
A Stubborn Foe Routed.
33
III. How to Pray
34
God's Ambassadors.
35
Six Sweeping Statements.
36
Words With a Freshly Honed Razor-Edge.
37
The Controlling Purpose.
38
The Threefold Cord of Jesus' Life.
39
Touching the Hidden Keys.
40
Making God's Purpose Our Prayer.
41
The Trysting Place.
42
Our Prayer Teacher.
43
The Power of a Name.
44
The Birthplace of Faith.
45
A Trained Ear.
46
Through the Book to God.
47
A Spirit Illumined Mind.
48
Wide Reading.
49
A Mirror Held up to God's Face.
50
He Came to His Own.
51
The One Purpose of Prayer.
52
The Spirit's Prayer Room.
53
How to Find God's Will.
54
God's Door into a Home.
55
A Free Agent Enslaved.
56
The Place Where God is Not.
57
Saving the Life.
58
Giving God a Clear Road for Action.
59
IV. Jesus' Habits of Prayer
60
A Pen Sketch.
61
Dissolving Views.
62
Deepening Shadows.
63
Under the Olive Trees.
64
A Composite Picture.
65
Footnotes