Prayers to Survive Wars that Last

Prayers to Survive Wars that Last
Author: Eze, Chielozona
Publisher: Cissus World Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0997868945

“In this meditative and quietly lyrical approach, Chielozona Eze marks himself in this new African poetics not as a voice of easy protest, not as the voice of a bombast and rhetorical turn, but as the voice of an African poet in the twenty-first century trying to make sense of all the hunger, anger, war, loss, and desecration that has haunted his life and the lives of many Africans but remains always poised on that tender grace, that ease of dance, that transubstantiation that works an alchemy that is not about the outcome but always about the struggle, the engagement, and the terms thereof.” Chris Abani, Board of Trustee Professor of English, Northwestern University “This collection is a fitting memorial to a war still unatoned for and its accompanying sense of bereavement and lack of closure. In tune with a pervasive sense of loss and quiet recollection, the poems are meditative, packing a punch in their ambling profundity; Chielozona Eze does not blame; he speaks of introspection and love.” Amatoritsero Ede, Publisher & Managing Editor, Maple Tree Literary Supplement

A Better Way to Pray

A Better Way to Pray
Author: Andrew Wommack
Publisher: Harrison House Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577948343

After nearly four decades of ministry, Andrew Wommack has discovered some important truths about prayer. His prayer life is much different than it was thirty years ago and the results have dramatically improved! You may be asking many of the same questions Andrew once did. Is prayer my Christian duty? Is prayer primarily about asking God to meet my needs and the needs of others? Is God's answer to my prayer based on the degree of my humility and sincerity? Is answered prayer a sovereign decision of God or do I have the ability to influence Him? Clear, scriptural answers to these questions and more could significantly change the way you pray. These principles may not be the only way to pray, but if you're not getting the results you desire, consider changing directions; maybe there is A Better Way to Pray.

The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children
Author: Stormie Omartian
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736986596

Keep Parenting Them Through Prayer Even though your relationships with your children may change once they enter adulthood, you can still impact the direction of their lives by asking your heavenly Father to shape them for His glory. This powerful book from bestselling author Stormie Omartian offers you encouragement and support as you continue to love, influence, and minister to your now-grown kids. You’ll learn how to ask for God’s divine intervention in the lives of your children as you pray that they will develop hearts hungry for God, His Word, and His ways flourish in their relationships, careers, and health stand strong against temptations, stumbling blocks, and worldly distractions No matter how old your children are, you can find peace knowing they are in God’s hands. The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children is an inspiring reminder to turn all your hopes and dreams for your family over to God, confident that He hears and answers your every request.

The Seventh Prayer

The Seventh Prayer
Author: Nancy Talley
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450265243

The time is five hundred years after The Last War. The women have taken power. Simon, reaching his eighteenth birthday, makes his Pilgrimage to the Holy Structure along with other young men from many parts of the planet. He will enter each of seven circles, learning life-changing lessons in each, returning to his Colony very different than he was when he left. He will learn about Earth when the goods of daily life were made from natural materials, before mankind destroyed most of the natural world. In each of the circles Earth's young men offer up a life-prayer, completing their journey with The Seventh Prayer.

THE PRAYERS OF SURVIVAL

THE PRAYERS OF SURVIVAL
Author: Kwabena Osei
Publisher: K. Osei Doctrines and Publications
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9082394138

This prayer book, the prayers of survival, will eradicate all your fears. It will empower you to gain self confidence. Just say a prayer. Prayer is the only combatant force against the secret wars waged against us by the power of darkness and its human agents. The great father of all, whose loving-kindness endures forever, the most gracious and ever merciful one never shuts the door behind us. The Heaven door is widely open for us. The mighty forces who are obedient to the Holy one with the true identity from the Master of Creation with unconditional love are always ready to come to our aid for our rescue in all tribulations. The prayers of survival will be of much help for spiritual growth. They will let you be by thyself, know thyself and you will not need any intermediary between you and your Great father, the Merciful and the most Gracious one. Again, the prayers will assist you to find the authentic path to reach our Creator God without depending on any human being. Man is created authentic. Human beings are God’s noble Creatures. We must bow and shower praises and thanksgiving only to the Great God of Creation. It is a curse to depend on your fellow human being. The power and the key to your noblest destiny is in your own hands. Just live courageously to explore it. It is your birth’s right. It is not far away from you. You possess it. It is a matter of discovering yourself within the Great Universal Light. And Nature will dance with you. You will hear when Nature talks to you. The mysteries of Nature will be unveiled to you. Your days will be of surprises and miracles. Definitely, the living Hell into which you are condemned will be transformed into, a great and an absolute paradise with perfect peace and everlasting prosperity. May the Ultimate Source of the Power of Creation guide and endow us with Wisdom to liberate ourselves from mental slavery. To enable us know ourselves, be divine, and to be permanent dwellers and dancers in the Great Universal Light. Amen-Amen. Amen

A Wing and a Prayer

A Wing and a Prayer
Author: Harry H. Crosby
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1504067320

“A compelling account of the air war against Germany” written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV’s Masters of the Air (Publishers Weekly). They began operations out of England in the spring of ’43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the “Bloody Hundredth” a legend. Harry H. Crosby—depicted in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg—arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last. After dealing with his fear and gaining in skill and confidence, he was promoted to Group Navigator, surviving hairbreadth escapes and eluding death while leading thirty-seven missions, some of them involving two thousand aircraft. Now, in a breathtaking and often humorous account, he takes us into the hearts and minds of these intrepid airmen to experience both the triumph and the white-knuckle terror of the war in the skies. “Affecting . . . A vivid account . . . Uncommonly thoughtful recollections that address the moral ambiguities of a great cause without in any way denigrating the selfless valor or camaraderie that helped ennoble it.” —Kirkus Reviews “Re-creates for us the sense of how it was when European skies were filled with noise and danger, when the fate of millions hung in the balance. An evocative and excellent memoir.” —Library Journal “The acrid stench of fear and cordite, the coal burning stoves, the heroics, the losses . . . This has to be the best memoir I have read, bar none.” —George Hicks, director of the Airmen Memorial Museum

The Dawn Prayer

The Dawn Prayer
Author: Matthew Schrier
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1948836157

"What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means ‘dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he'd been photographing the intense combat of the country's civil war. Just 45 minutes from the safety of the Turkish border, he was taken prisoner by the al Nusra Front—an organization the world would come to know as the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. Over the next seven months he would endure torture and near starvation in six brutal terrorist prisons. He'd face a daily struggle just to survive. And, eventually, he'd escape. In this gripping, raw, and surprisingly funny memoir, Schrier details the horrifying and frequently surreal experience of being a slight, wisecracking Jewish guy held captive by the world's most violent Islamic extremists. Managing to keep his heritage a secret, Schrier used humor to develop relationships with his captors—and to keep himself sane during the long months of captivity. The Dawn Prayer (Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison): A Memoir is a tale of patriotism and unimaginable bleakness shot through with light . . . of despair and friendship, sacrifice and betrayal, in a setting of bombed-out buildings and shifting alliances. It's the story of the first Westerner to escape al Qaeda—not a battle-hardened soldier, but an ordinary New Yorker who figured out how to set his escape plan in motion from a scene in Jurassic Park. From the prisoners' fiercely competitive hacky sack games and volleyball tournaments (played using a ball made of shredded orange peels and a shoelace) to his own truly nail-biting outbreak, Matthew Schrier's story is unforgettable—and one you won't want to miss.

Ladder to the Light

Ladder to the Light
Author: Steven Charleston
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506465749

Darkness will not last forever. Together we can climb toward the light. They were as troubled as we, our ancestors, those who came before us, and all for the very same reasons: fear of illness, a broken heart, fights in the family, the threat of another war. Corrupt politicians walked their stage, and natural disasters appeared without warning. And yet they came through, carrying us within them, through the grief and struggle, through the personal pain and the public chaos, finding their way with love and faith, not giving in to despair but walking upright until their last step was taken. My culture does not honor the ancestors as a quaint spirituality of the past but as a living source of strength for the present. They did it and so will we. In the same voice that has comforted and challenged countless readers through his daily social media posts, Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest Steven Charleston offers words of hard-won hope, rooted in daily conversations with the Spirit and steeped in Indigenous wisdom. Every day Charleston spends time in prayer. Every day he writes down what he hears from the Spirit. In Ladder to the Light he shares what he has heard with the rest of us and adds thoughtful reflection to help guide us to the light Native America knows something about cultivating resilience and resisting darkness. For all who yearn for hope, Ladder to the Light is a book of comfort, truth, and challenge in a time of anguish and fear.

Winning the War Through Prayer

Winning the War Through Prayer
Author: C. Fred Dickason Th. D.
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1512759813

No more general, routine, and unfocused praying. This book lays the foundation for engaging in spiritual warfare by effective, pointed, biblically based prayer. Part I presents in the first chapter a solid theological foundation, treating worldview, the reality of the spirit world, and our resources. The next chapters show the place of prayer in warfare and delineate some strategies, tactics, and cautions. Part II suggests some pattern warfare prayers for personal, church, and world needs. Believers have used some of these very effectively to see the Lord intervene and remove oppression and obstacles. “Winning the War through Prayer is like a bucket of cold water thrown onto a largely lukewarm Church. For those who have already experienced the power of demonic forces and the triumph of Christ, this book will give them more practical knowledge of how to confront the enemy. For those who have ignored the biblical teaching about our invisible war, such readers will be jolted in to reality. Their eyes will be open to a new level of spiritual discernment and a new way of praying that is directed against the forces that seek to destroy us” (Dr. Erwin Lutzer). “In my evaluation, this book is the best presentation of biblical warfare praying that has been written. God has use Fred to write an articulate, doctrinally sound, biblical call to warfare praying that exceeds anything yet written—an academic and biblical study, a very useable and much needed document” (Dr. Mark I. Bubeck).

War's Other Voices

War's Other Voices
Author: miriam cooke
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1996-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780815603771

This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentered or excluded from both literary canon and social discourse. Although they may not share religious or political affiliation, they do share a perspective which holds them together. Cooke traces the transformation in consciousness that has taken place among women who observed and recorded the progress towards chaos in Lebanon. During the so-called "two year" war of 1975-76 little comment was made about those (usually men in search of economic security) who left the saturnalia of violence, but with time attitudes changed. Women became aware that they had remained out of a sense of responsibility for others and that they had survived. Consciousness of survival was catalytic: the Beirut Decentrists began to describe a society that had gone beyond the masculinization normal in most wars and achieved an almost unprecedented feminization. Emigration, the expected behavior for men before 1975, became the sin qua non for Lebanese citizenship. The writings of the Beirut Decentists offer hope of an escape from the anarchy. If men and women could espouse the Lebanese women's sense of responsibility, the energy that had fueled the unrelenting savagery could be turned to reconstruction. But that was before the invasion of 1982.