A Guide to Prayer (Watts)

Author:

Watts, Isaac

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SKU:

9781848719491

Publisher:

Banner of Truth Trust

Format:

Hardcover

Pages:

199

Description

Isaac Watts’ book A Guide to Prayer, is a helpful and practical guide to prayer. To Isaac Watts, prayer was more than a duty required in the worship of God. It was ‘the conversation which God allows us to maintain with himself above, while we are here below…in which the soul of a saint often gets near to God, experiences great delight and, as it were, dwells with his heavenly Father for a short time before he comes to heaven.’

But Watts knew that most Christians need help in the use of this great privilege, so that our prayers should be both acceptable to God and ‘a delightful and profitable exercise to our own souls and to those that join with us’.

Watts deals in turn with the nature of prayer, prayer viewed as a gift which can be developed, prayer as dependent on the fruits of divine grace, and the assistance of the Spirit of God in prayer. In his final chapter he brings forward several arguments to persuade all Christians to develop and use ‘this holy skill of conversation with God’.

Contents

The Nature of Prayer
The Gift of Prayer
The Grace of Prayer
The Spirit of Prayer
Persuasive Arguments to Learn to Pray

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Highly recommended especially to pastors/elders, husbands and fathers

Posted by Brandon Myers on 8th Feb 2024

Watts definitely bleeds bibline (to quote what Spurgeon said of the Puritan tinker John Bunyan). Recently a group of us brother-pastors in the Chicago land area read through this book and discussed it. It was excellent and led to very profitable and practical discussions on prayer and ministry. Watts gives very helpful,biblically rooted insights on pastoral prayers on the Lord's Day, prayers in family worship and prayers on pastoral visits (to name but a few). I can safely speak for myself and these nearly twenty other brother pastors that we highly recommend the book especially to pastors/elders, husbands and fathers. Elders in training who are called on to prepare pastoral prayers will find much that is very helpful here and any pastor leading a prayer meeting or a husband or father leading family worship will as well. In particular Watts comments on types of prayer, examples of prayers, words or phrases to avoid, your voice, emotion and more will aid those who regularly pray publicly or lead prayer meetings in their local church. May God continue to use this book to His glory and may many more read it and be sharpened as we all were!