Essential Prayers

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything. Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life. Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals. It is these three prayers – asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us – that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.

The Gospels tell us that Jesus healed everyone who had faith. It’s easy to think of the healing accounts in Scripture as something long ago and far away. But Jesus wants to bring healing to all those who approach him in prayer, including you and your loved ones! Written in a spirit of deep faith, this inspiring collection of prayers will help you ask for Jesus’ healing graces and experience his saving power.

“To withstand Satan’s assault upon our souls, we must arm ourselves with the weapons of faith....” (From the Introduction by Fr. James Mattaliano, SJ) Spiritual warfare centers on the “weapons” the Church gives us: the Sacraments, the word of God, prayer, and sacramentals. Essential Spiritual Warfare Prayers for Protection and Deliverance gives you the tools to combat the influence of evil in your life and to live in peace, close to Jesus and Mary.

Essential Prayers is an anointed prayer book that touches every aspect of life. It offers ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works. Essential Prayers is for every Christian home, it will surely transform your prayer life and reshape your entire outlook of life. Essential Prayers addresses your personal situations, it provides prayers for marriage restoration, total victory, financial release, deliverance from addiction, prayer against problems started in childhood, foundational problems, prayer for singles, prayer against ancestral debt-collectors, prayer for signs and wonders, and many more. We are given the authority and power to take over, not to be run over. If you fail to take over, you’ll be run over. Essential Prayers offers step-by-step prayer guidelines to take over and possess your possessions.

Whether you've just begun to pray or have been faithfully praying for years, the wisdom in this book will help you pray better. Fr. Lawrence Lovasik here shows you innumerable ways you can avoid common obstacles and deepen your prayer life, no matter how much or how little you may have prayed before.

Essential Prayers for the Essential Life of Pray employs the Holy Scriptures into prayer strategies. Using the word of God, this devotional will guide us through life's toughest situations. Each prayer topic comes with scriptures, prayer, and biblical application. If you are seeking to grow in your Christian walk, this devotional is for you.

Deepen your relationship with Jesus in the Eucharist through these prayers, scripture passages, meditations, hymns, and more, that provide a guide and companion to a Eucharistic hour of adoration. Written by Sr. Marie-Paul Curley, FSP, and compiled by Sr. Mary Mark Wickenhiser, FSP, the book places adoration at the core of both Pauline and Catholic spirituality and offers a way to enter into lectio divina, praying with the scriptures. Part of Pauline Books and Media's "Catholic Treasury Series," this beautiful prayer book includes seven different hours of adoration. Also included is a beautiful collection of prayers, litanies, personal prayers for before and after Mass, and Eucharistic prayers. Readers will discover the outpouring of spiritual gifts that spending time with Jesus will bring into their lives. This is the perfect gift for anyone looking to deepen their relationship with Jesus, live the Eucharist more fully, and reconnect with the wholeness of life in Christ.