A Highly Recommended Book on Prayer

Hello! I hope everyone is making it through our snowy weekend okay. I am excited to blog a little today because I am excited to pass on the title of a book that I highly recommend. I know Jessica had been asking about a book on prayer, and I had said that most of them I have read have often hindered more than helped me. But today, this particular book was brought back into my memory. It is a fantastic book. Here are a couple of excerpts from the Preface:

"Therefore, with a sincere desire for your own salvation, seek nothing from this book except the love of God. With such expectation you shall assuredly obtain that love."

"Oh, if only once we could be convinced of God's goodness towards His children and of His desire to reveal Himself to them! We would no longer seek our own selfish desires. We would not be so quickly discouraged from pursuing what He is so longing to give us."

"This little book, conceived in great simplicity, wa not written to be published. I wrote it for a few individuals who desired to love God with all their hearts. But because of the profit they received from reading the manuscript, many asked to obtain their own personal copy. It was because of these requests that this little book was commited to the press."

"This book, therefore, lights the way to the desirablility, the pleasure, the advantages and the ease of these two matters: prayer and piety."

Here are a few excerps from Chapter 1 Titled: From the Shallows To the Depths

"Once the Lord spoke and said, 'I counsel you to buy from me gold tried in the fire that you may be rich.' (Rev.3:18) Dear reader, there is gold available to you . This gold is much more easily obtained than you could ever imagine. It is available to you. The purpose of this book is to launch you into this exploration and into this discovery.

I give you an invitation: If you are thirsty, come to the living waters. Do not waste your precious time digging wells that have no water in them. (John 7:37)

You who are poor, come.

You who are afflicted, come.

You who are weighted down with your load of wretchedness and your load of pain, come. You will be comforted!

You who are sick and need a physician, come. Don't hesitate because you have diseases. Come to your Lord and show Him all your diseases, and they will be healed!

Come!"

The name of this book is, "Experiencing the The Depths of Jesus Christ." The author is Jeanne Guyon. She wrote it in about 1685. I don't know whether anyone else wants to buy this book, or I could just post quotes from it like I have done above. Either way, but let me know if you want me to post more of her writings here...

Hope you are having a good weekend!