Megan Hill - Praying Together: The Priority and Privilege of Prayer in Our Homes, Communities, and Churches

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Megan Hill has given us a primer on prayer that is both useful and eloquent. Many of us, myself included, are prone to entertain an untruth about prayer: that it should always be easy and spontaneous, free of any hint of discipline or forethought. Megan empathetically and expressively lifts our eyes toward a higher vision, grounded in the truth of Scripture, of prayer as a delightful duty to be practiced, savored, and shared.

Jen Wilkin, author, Women of the Word; Bible study teacher

Megan Hill moves us to pray together in our homes, communities, and churches, offering us encouragement, experience, and counselall richly biblical and theological. If you and your brothers and sisters in Christ pray together with more hope, delight, and expectancy because of reading it, I am sure that Megan will feel her aim is realized.

J. Ligon Duncan, III, Chancellor and CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi

When Megan Hill prays, one feels the force of an entire life spent communing with the triune God. Now, Hill provides both the theology and practical guidance to usher others into a rich life of prayer among fellow Christians and in corporate worship. This book will remind you of how good and pleasant it is when Gods people dwelland praytogether in unity.

Katelyn Beaty, Acquisitions Editor, Baker Publishing Group

Another book on prayer? Yes, and no. Yes, the focus of this book is about urgent, corporate, sustained prayer of the kind that Scripture urges and Jesus extols as necessary if we are to endure in the battle that faces the Christian church. And no, for this is not just a book about prayer. Megan Hill is an accomplished author and godly pastors wife and mother. What she has to say comes from a sharp and discerning mind but also from the treasury of rich pastoral experience. Could it be that this book is Gods instrument in reviving among us a healthy, vigorous, infectious prayer lifeprayer partnershipsthat will redirect the course of this world? I think it possible. I pray that it is.

Derek W. H. Thomas, Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina; Chancellors Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary

Praying Together wasnt written as a guide to improving your prayer life, but its impossible to read without feeling compelled to pray more often, more sincerely, and with more people. Megan Hills reverence for prayer and her personal stories of devotion made me grateful for the gift of prayer and for a God who uses prayer to bring us to him and to each other. Praying Together offers vital encouragement.

Kate Shellnutt, Associate Online Editor, Christianity Today magazine

Come let us pray! A covenant child of God who learned to pray in Word and deed calls Christs church to devoted, fervent prayer. Megan has given us a standard for kingdom praying that will bring growth and grace personally and corporately. Come, fill and disciple your hearts in remembering together who God is and what he has done. Brothers and sisters, are you ready?

Jane Patete, Former Coordinator of Womens Ministry, the Presbyterian Church of America

Reading this beautiful book on prayer is like enjoying a meal with a friend. Our hostess, Megan Hill, serves the wisdom of the Word, well-baked with centuries of godly Reformed and Puritan writers and seasoned with many personal experiences. Her reflections on prayer are gentle and practical, and by Gods grace I would expect you to be eager to take her recipe and use it often in your home and church.

Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Praying Together made me want to grab a friend and pray. Megan Hill reminds us of the privilege, duty, and delight that await us as we join one another in communion with God. Weaving together the Bibles testimony about prayer and the blessing it has been to the church through the ages, this book will drive you to your knees in the anticipation of the great things God will do.

Melissa Kruger, Director of Womens Content, The Gospel Coalition

Megan Hill helps us to see, with admirable clarity and practical insight, how the triune God invites believers to gather together in prayerin the church, in our families, and in a host of other settings. She points us to the rich promises and the remarkable blessings attending corporate prayer in Scripture. Her examples and illustrations stir us to pray with others. Read this book and join the chorus of saints lifting their voices to heaven.

Guy Prentiss Waters, James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson

Megan Hill offers a biblical foundation as well as practical instruction for joining together to pursue an ever-deeper relationship with the Father, through the work of the Son, by the power of the Spirit. We will always find reasons not to pray together. But if we hope to live as conduits of the power of Godif we hope to feed the hungry, unbind the prisoner, comfort the grieving, and shine light in the worlds dark cornersHill encourages us to begin, together, on our knees.

Martha Manikas-Foster, Producer and Host, Inside Out, Family Life

Megan Hill learned to pray as a small child in the company of her parents and members of her local church. Now shes written a rich resource on corporate prayer, helpful for families, small groups, and churches. I look forward to gathering friends and reading Praying Together. Better yet, I look forward to praying with them.

Jen Pollock Michel, author, Teach Us to Want

PRAYING TOGETHER

The Priority and Privilege of Prayer: In Our Homes, Communities, and Churches

Megan Hill

Praying Together: The Priority and Privilege of Prayer: In Our Homes, Communities, and Churches

Copyright 2016 by Megan Hill

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First printing 2016

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