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How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People

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Pete Greig has been teaching on prayer - and leading a non-stop prayer movement - for twenty years. Now, for the first time, he puts his life's work into a simple book written for everybody - an answer to the question everyone ultimately asks: how do I pray?

This down-to-earth introduction to prayer will guide you deeper in your relationship with God - making you more centred, more aware of God's voice, more likely to see breakthroughs and more able to make sense of your unanswered prayers, too. It's full of honest, hard-won wisdom interspersed with real-life stories - some humorous, others moving - to equip and inspire your prayer life. Journeying through the Lord's Prayer, and accompanied by online videos and discussion starters, it unpacks nine important themes: stillness, adoration, petition, intercession, perseverance, contemplation, listening, confession and spiritual warfare.

From one of today's most gifted and visionary communicators, for those who've been praying for years as well as those who want to pray but don't know where to begin, HOW TO PRAY is the simple, inspiring guide you've been waiting for.

Praise for How to Pray

  • Pete Greig is a gift to the world. This book uses the revolutionary prayer of Jesus as a grounded guide to ignite our spirits to the heart of God. As you read these pages let these words infuse you with a holy desire for God's kingdom come! - Danielle Strickland

  • Is there anything more primal than prayer? We reach out to God, and we hope God is reaching out to us in return. Pete Greig is unwilling to surrender this basic human impulse to any of the cultured complexities that we tend to build up around it. With How to Pray he helps us enter into a habit of prayer that is as life-giving as it is simple. - Ian Morgan Cron

  • The simplicity, clarity, and depth Pete talks about prayer is remarkable. Whatever barriers you're facing when it comes to a vibrant prayer life, this book will help you move beyond them and walk in a richer relationship with Christ. - Margaret Feinberg

Pete Greig

Pete Greig is the bewildered founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement, an award-winning author of eleven books, and a co-host of the much-loved daily devotional Lectio365, used by more than 400,000 people.

He also serves on the Board of Waverley Abbey, one of the oldest places of Christian prayer in the British Isles, and as an ambassador for the international relief and development agency Tearfund.

Pete and his wife Sammy, a professional counsellor, are proud parents to two adult sons, and were the Founding Pastors of Emmaus Rd church in the south of England. Today they mentor leaders, co-host the annual Wildfires Festival, and belong to The Mustard Seed Order (OMS).

Pete's digital resources include The Prayer Course (downloaded more than 3 million times), the Desert Fathers and Mothers series filmed in the Egyptian Desert, and his popular Aidan's Way pilgrimage, for which he hiked 300 miles from the Scottish island of lona to the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne.

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