Dick Eastman - Intercessory Worship: Combining Worship and Prayer to Touch the Heart of God

PRAISE FOR

INTERCESSORY WORSHIP

Prayer and worship are our greatest works as believers, and Dick Eastman has powerfully related them to the mission of the Church. Read this exciting book and see how the Great Commission is being fulfilled in our lifetime.

DR. NEIL T. ANDERSON
Founder, Freedom in Christ, Franklin, Tennessee

Dick Eastman shows us how to ignite Gods passion in our lives and on behalf of the world. We always thought that worship and prayer were important. Dick Eastman tells us why, and he goes on to show us how to weave the two together to lead the Church toward the great endtime harvest.

MIKE BICKLE
Director, International House of Prayer, Kansas City, Missouri

Worship is a subject that is difficult, sometimes painful, for many believers today. Dick Eastman, a beloved and godly brother, shows us how worship is not only infinitely pleasing to God and vital to our spiritual growth but is absolutely necessary to bring the nations to a saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

DR. BILL BRIGHT (19212003)
Founder, Campus Crusade for Christ

The emergence of biblically focused worship is a fountainhead where the life within the Church and within the individual moves from flow to overflow. As we exalt Jesus Christ, Dick challenges us to call on Gods authority to eliminate the adversarys position as nations are brought to their knees in a feast of joy. The culmination of the Great Commission will be ushered in on the foundation of anticipatory, prayerful worship that brings us to the destiny God intended for each of His people.

TOM PHILLIPS
Vice President of Crusades, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

This work is not only a thorough, insightful explanation of a fascinating subject but also a description of a radical biblical practice being reborn in our daysomething long prophesied but never before attained.

JOHN DAWSON
Founder, International Reconciliation Coalition
International President Emeritus, Youth with a Mission

The best leaders are Gods worshiping servants. Dick Eastman has spent decades humbly leading us deeper into worship and prayer. In a whirlwind worldwide tour, Dick invites us to join with others who are experiencing God and to put some fight into our intercession.

FRANCIS FRANGIPANE
Founder, River of Life Ministries, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Dick Eastmans gift of an intercessors passion forand power inpartnership with God is multiplied over and over to us all by means of the understandable, practical, believe-I-can-do-this guidance. Under Jesus touch, he teaches us to pray.

JACK W. HAYFORD
Chancellor, The Kings Seminary, Van Nuys, California

Dick Eastmans writing style is honest and enjoyable and will bring you into a deeper relationship with the Lord. The linking of worship and evangelism is one of the major keys to releasing a massive end-time harvest into the nations.

CINDY JACOBS
Co-founder, Generals International, Ovilla, Texas

This book takes us into the heart of what it means to war and to worship. Dick Eastman explains how the specific worship pathways King David followed are the same pathways that are central to Gods plan to fulfill the Great Commission. This is an exciting time to be alive! Church, lets cooperate with Gods planin the way we worship and in the way we intercedeto bring people to Himself from every tribe, tongue and nation.

DUTCH SHEETS
Founder, Dutch Sheets Ministries, Hamilton, Alabama

2011 Dick Eastman

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Chosen edition published 2014

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Revised and updated from Heights of Delight, Pathways of Delight and Rivers of Delight published in 2002 by Regal.

Ebook edition originally created 2012

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DEDICATION
To Bill: My friend in the desert!
Thanks for launching me
on this incredible journey!

River One: River of Intimacy
The Prophetic Dimension of Intercessory Worship

River Two: River of Sufficiency
The Positional Dimension of Intercessory Worship

River Three: River of Supremacy
The Penetrating Dimension of Intercessory Worship

River Four: River of Discovery
The Perceptive Dimension of Intercessory Worship

River Five: River of Liberty
The Personal Dimension of Intercessory Worship

River Six: River of Humility
The Purifying Dimension of Intercessory Worship

River Seven: River of Destiny
The Possessive Dimension of Intercessory Worship

My journey began with a strong inner urging to set aside 40 days for fasting and prayer. (Dont be alarmedthis is not a book about fasting and prayer. I didnt mean to scare you! Thats just where my story happens to begin.) It was late February 2000. This was the second prolonged fasting experience in my life. Inspired by a dear friend and mentor, the late Dr. Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ, I fasted for 40 days in the fall of 1996. That was a truly life changing experience; it was also rather grueling. I have often jokingly said that I promised God on the tenth or eleventh day of that first fast that if He would just keep me alive for all 40 days, I will never do this again as long as I live! But with the dawning of a new decade