Reviews for Prayer Can Change Your Life

The average rating for Prayer Can Change Your Life based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-12 00:00:00 Adam Skirvin I loved this book when I read it years ago. Looks like the original can be downloaded or read online for free. I found it in a used bookstore and it remains on my book shelf as one that I go back to over and over again. In particular I reread Chapter 15 about Wisdom–Ancient and Modern. Here is the link:

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-04 00:00:00 Carl Ford This is a comprehensive book about the power of prayer. The authors begin by describing experiments carried out in the 50's with a group of people in need of psychological help, who each chose one of three different methods of obtaining such help - psychotherapy, random prayers, and prayer therapy. On conclusion of the 9-month experiment, the first group (undergoing psychotherapy) was deemed to have obtained 65% improvement, the second (using random prayer = petitionary prayer) no improvement, the third (undergoing prayer therapy) 72% improvement It is the latter "treatment", which was so successful, that this book attempts to teach us. It contains detailed information about how we should go about learning how to pray in the optimal way. The key factors are recognizing the four "trouble-makers" in our unconscious - fear, guilt, inferiority feelings and misguided love (hate), learning to cast out these demons, and then praying in the correct manner. Prayer should not be petitonary, focusing on the problem, but affirmative, focusing on the loving power of God. This book, published in 1957, is impeccably written and goes into absolute detail about how to carry out effective transformative prayer. I can't begin to express the wisdom in this book, but would highly recommend it for those eager to learn this optimal form of prayer, though it will need to be read a few times in order to fully integrate the process.