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The Life of Prayer

Ten readings that begin with Jesus' teaching on prayer and move through weakness, Scripture-shaped prayer, perseverance, hidden communion and faithful examples.

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Lessons from Faithful Witnesses

Twelve verified Witness Records read beside Scripture. Historical claims stay inside researched records; the series does not fictionalize the lives.

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Learning to Walk With God

Fourteen ordered readings on fellowship with God, the Holy Spirit, obedience, discernment, wisdom and the inward Christian life.

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Foundations of the Christian Life

Twelve readings moving from new birth and assurance into Scripture, prayer, the fight with sin, cross-bearing, forgiveness, suffering and perseverance in Christ.

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Why Does God Allow His People to Suffer?

Scripture does not give one small explanation for every suffering, but it gives Christians a sure hope in Christ while they groan, endure and wait for redemption.

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When You Find It Difficult to Pray

Difficulty in prayer is not solved by performance. Jesus teaches simple Godward prayer, and the Spirit helps believers in weakness.

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When God Seems Silent

Biblical lament gives believers words for seasons when God feels distant without requiring them to pretend that pain is absent.

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What Is the Fear of the Lord?

The fear of the Lord is reverent, obedient regard for God that takes His holiness and authority seriously without driving His children away from Him.

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What Is Genuine Revival?

Genuine revival cannot be measured by excitement alone; Scripture points us toward renewed attention to God’s Word, repentance, Christ-centred faith and durable obedience.

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The Secret Life of a Christian

Jesus calls His people to a hidden life before the Father where prayer, generosity and devotion are not performed for an audience.

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How to Remain Faithful to Christ

Faithfulness grows by abiding in Christ, laying aside entangling sin and continuing in the ordinary means God gives His people.

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How to Overcome Temptation

Temptation should be faced with truth, prayer, practical escape and dependence on Christ rather than confidence in willpower.

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How to Know the Voice of God

Christians discern guidance under Scripture, testing impressions and teaching rather than treating inner certainty as equal to God’s written Word.

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How to Begin a Real Walk With God

A real walk with God begins with His grace in Christ, not with religious self-improvement, and continues through faith, repentance, Scripture, prayer and obedience.

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Prayer

Learning to come before the Father with attention, trust and perseverance.

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Holiness

Receiving the call to belong to God in conduct, desire and ordinary choices.

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Scripture

Reading carefully, understanding the passage and receiving what it teaches.

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Obedience

Carrying the truth received into decisions, relationships and responsibilities.

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Faith

Trusting the character of God while walking responsibly in what He has said.

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Life in the Spirit

Dependence on the Holy Spirit expressed in the character and obedience of Christ.

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Suffering

Holding to Christ through weakness, unanswered questions and the need for endurance.

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Missions

Prayer, preparation and service so that Christ may be made known among the nations.

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A week of prayer

Seven readings to help you pray with Scripture open before you.

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Prayer · Reading path

Learning to come before the Father with attention, trust and perseverance.

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Faith · Reading path

Trusting the character of God while walking responsibly in what He has said.

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Suffering · Reading path

Holding to Christ through weakness, unanswered questions and the need for endurance.

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Missions · Reading path

Prayer, preparation and service so that Christ may be made known among the nations.

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The gospel spoken and lived

The urgency of making Christ known through proclamation and a life that agrees with the message.

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Holy Spirit

Explore Holy Spirit through Scripture, quotations and reviewed readings.

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Revival

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Repentance

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Salvation

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The Cross

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Christ

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Love

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Discernment

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Spiritual Gifts

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Worship

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Church

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Grace

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Perseverance

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When Children Pray

Children, prayer, early faith and Christian witness. A collection for parents, teachers and readers.

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Daily Reflection

Twenty daily quotations on one theme, Scripture and thoughtful community reflections.

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I Maintain My Joy - Watchman Nee

A historical account of a Chinese Christian teacher whose ministry grew in the upheaval of twentieth-century China, whose teaching travelled far beyond the churches he served, and whose final twenty years were spent in prison and labour camps.

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Look Unto Me - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A historical account of the English Baptist preacher whose conversion came through a plain gospel appeal in a snowbound chapel, whose London ministry reached far beyond one congregation, and whose final years were marked by illness and costly controversy.

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The Lord Conquered My Unbelief - Hudson Taylor

A historical account of the English missionary whose life became bound to China, whose methods challenged the habits of nineteenth-century missions, and whose surrender on Brighton Beach led to the founding of the China Inland Mission.

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He Waits to Be Wanted - A. W. Tozer

A historical account of the American pastor and writer whose ministry called Christians away from religious machinery toward the knowledge of God, and whose influence grew far beyond the churches he quietly served.

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My Heart Strangely Warmed - John Wesley

A historical account of the Anglican priest whose search for holiness passed through Oxford discipline, missionary failure and spiritual uncertainty before becoming the Methodist movement that carried evangelical preaching across Britain and beyond.

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He Trusted God for Everything - George Müller

A historical account of the Prussian-born pastor whose early life was marked by dishonesty, whose conversion redirected him completely, and whose work among orphans in Bristol became one of the best-known nineteenth-century testimonies to prayer and practical faith.

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Through Burma and the Prison - Adoniram Judson

A historical account of the American missionary whose decision to remain in Burma led through years of language study, imprisonment, bereavement and translation work, and whose Burmese Bible became one of the enduring results of the first generation of American overseas missions.

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The Scripture in the People’s Tongue - William Tyndale

A historical account of the English scholar whose determination to translate Scripture from Greek and Hebrew into clear English forced him into exile, whose books were smuggled back into his own country, and whose language passed into later English Bibles long after his execution.

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A Call to Anguish - David Wilkerson

A historical account of the American Pentecostal pastor whose move from a small Pennsylvania church to the streets of New York led to Teen Challenge, World Challenge and Times Square Church, and whose preaching kept returning to repentance, prayer and compassion for people others had learned to avoid.

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In the Hiding Place and Beyond - Corrie ten Boom

A historical account of the Dutch watchmaker whose family hid Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, whose resistance work led to imprisonment at Ravensbrück, and whose postwar ministry centred on the forgiveness she had learned through suffering.

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Why Revival Tarries - Leonard Ravenhill

A historical account of the English evangelist and writer whose ministry was shaped by prayer, revival history and uncompromising preaching, and whose later influence reached a generation of pastors, evangelists and young Christian leaders in Britain and the United States.

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Absolute Surrender - Andrew Murray

A historical account of the South African Dutch Reformed minister whose long pastorates, revival leadership, educational work and missionary organizing were joined to an extensive ministry of writing on prayer, abiding in Christ and the surrendered life.

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Only Believe - Smith Wigglesworth

A historical account of the Yorkshire plumber who became one of the best-known healing evangelists of early Pentecostalism, whose ministry combined a plain reading of Scripture, bold prayer for the sick and an uncompromising emphasis on faith in Christ.

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The Azusa Street Mission - William J. Seymour

A historical account of the African American Holiness preacher whose small Los Angeles mission became the centre of the Azusa Street Revival, drawing people across racial and denominational lines and helping carry Pentecostal Christianity into a worldwide movement.

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Grace Abounding - John Bunyan

A historical account of the Bedford tinker and Nonconformist preacher whose spiritual struggles shaped some of the most vivid Christian writing in English, and whose refusal to stop preaching led to years of imprisonment and the creation of The Pilgrim’s Progress.

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The Shoe Salesman Who Preached to Millions - D. L. Moody

A historical account of the Massachusetts farm boy whose conversion in a Boston shoe store led to urban mission in Chicago, international evangelistic campaigns, schools for Christian workers and a practical ministry that crossed many denominational lines.

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The Open-Air Evangelist - George Whitefield

A historical account of the Anglican preacher whose extraordinary voice carried evangelical preaching through Britain and the American colonies, whose open-air ministry helped shape the Great Awakening, and whose life also contained a grave contradiction in his advocacy and ownership of slavery.

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The Work at Dohnavur - Amy Carmichael

A historical account of the Irish missionary whose work moved from evangelistic travel to the protection and upbringing of vulnerable children in South India, and whose fifty-six years there shaped the Dohnavur Fellowship and a large body of missionary writing.

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A Life of Intercession - Rees Howells

A historical account of the Welsh worker, missionary and founder of the Bible College of Wales whose life became identified with sustained intercessory prayer, revival in southern Africa and a college community devoted to prayer and missionary training.

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Expect Great Things - William Carey

A historical account of the English Baptist pastor and self-taught linguist whose argument for organized overseas mission helped form the Baptist Missionary Society, and whose forty years in India joined evangelism, Bible translation, education, printing and social reform at Serampore.

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I Believe in Miracles - Kathryn Kuhlman

A historical account of an American evangelist who began preaching in small churches, lost much of her early standing after a troubled marriage, and later became one of the most recognisable voices of the twentieth-century healing and charismatic movements.

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Power Through Prayer - E. M. Bounds

A historical account of an American Methodist minister whose work took him from a Missouri law office into the Civil War, pastoral ministry and religious publishing, and whose later writings made prayer the central question he left to the church.

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Africa Shall Be Saved - Reinhard Bonnke

A historical account of a German Pentecostal evangelist whose work began in a displaced postwar family, developed through missionary service in Lesotho, and grew into an international network of open-air evangelistic campaigns across Africa.

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The Woman Who Kept Preaching - Maria Woodworth-Etter

A historical account of an American evangelist who began public ministry after years of family loss, crossed the country with revival meetings, endured disputed religious experiences and public opposition, and became an influential figure in the years before and after the rise of modern Pentecostalism.

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My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers

A historical account of a Scottish Bible teacher who turned from art to ministry, taught a small college in London, served soldiers in Egypt during the First World War, and left behind spoken teaching that his wife preserved for generations of readers.

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Just As I Am - Billy Graham

An account of an American evangelist whose stadium preaching reached the world through radio and television, while questions of race, politics and family followed him through a long public life.

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The Revivalist - Evan Roberts

An account of a Welsh miner and revival leader whose public ministry became associated with the awakening of 1904–1905, followed by years away from the spotlight.

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Praying Hyde - John Hyde

An account of an American Presbyterian missionary in India whose long service and unusual devotion to intercession became associated with the early twentieth-century prayer movement.

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Wave After Wave - John Sung

An account of a Chinese evangelist whose early excellence in chemistry gave way to itinerant preaching through China and Southeast Asia, accompanied by intense physical suffering.

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No Compromise - Keith Green

An account of an American musician whose conversion redirected a promising career into Christian music, social hospitality and missionary mobilisation before his death in a plane crash.

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Holiness - J. C. Ryle

An account of an English evangelical clergyman whose family reversals, parish ministry and appointment as Liverpool's first bishop gave shape to his plain teaching on Christian life.

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Logic on Fire - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

An account of a Welsh physician who left medicine for preaching, served a working-class congregation and then spent decades teaching at Westminster Chapel.

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I Love Idi Amin - Festo Kivengere

An account of a Ugandan evangelical bishop who witnessed renewal in East Africa, suffered under Idi Amin's dictatorship, and spoke publicly about Christian forgiveness.

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The Greatest Secret - Bakht Singh

An account of a Sikh-born Indian evangelist whose conversion overseas led to indigenous congregations, biblical teaching and years of church-planting in India.

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Resolved - Jonathan Edwards

An account of a New England pastor and theologian whose work grew through the Great Awakening, a difficult Northampton dismissal, missionary service at Stockbridge and a brief Princeton presidency.

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A Life Given to Prayer - Joseph Ayo Babalola

An account of a Yoruba evangelist whose reported calling during road work led to the 1930 revival in western Nigeria and to a lasting place in the history of indigenous African Christianity.

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Campbell McAlpine · A Teacher of the Word and Prayer

Campbell McAlpine is remembered chiefly as a Bible teacher who urged Christians to give Scripture more than a hurried reading. He taught on biblical meditation, prayer, and the work of the Holy Spirit, and his.

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Daniel Kolenda · A Ministry Carried Forward

Daniel Kolenda became known to a wide Christian audience through the evangelistic ministry that Reinhard Bonnke had built over decades, but his work did not begin with that public succession. He grew up within.

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Daniel Nash · The Minister Who Laboured in Prayer

Daniel Nash was born in 1775 and spent much of his ministry in the villages of northern New York. He is usually remembered as “Father Nash,” the man who prayed alongside the evangelist Charles G. Finney during.

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David Brainerd · A Short Life in the Mission Field

David Brainerd was born on April 20, 1718, in Haddam, Connecticut, into a farming family with connections to the ministry. His father, Hezekiah Brainerd, died while David was young, and his mother, Dorothy.

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David Pawson · The Teacher Who Opened the Bible

David Pawson was born on February 25, 1930, in northern England and grew up in a Methodist family. His father was a minister, and the habits of worship and biblical teaching belonged to the life he knew from.

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David Wilkerson · The Pastor Who Went to the Streets

David Ray Wilkerson was born on May 19, 1931, in Hammond, Indiana. His father and grandfather were Pentecostal preachers, and religion was part of the household long before David had a pulpit of his own. He.

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Dawson Trotman · The Work of Teaching Another

Dawson Earle Trotman was born on March 25, 1906, in Bisbee, Arizona. He grew up in the American West, where work and family life offered no obvious path to becoming the leader of an international Christian.

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Dayuma · A Waorani Woman Who Returned to Her People

Dayuma was born around 1930 among the Waorani people of the eastern Ecuadorian Amazon. Her early world was made up of forest settlements, kinship relationships and the difficult history of violence between.

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Dick Eastman · A Life Given to Prayer for the Nations

Richard L. Eastman was born on January 25, 1944, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His parents, Mearl and Lorraine Eastman, raised him in a family connected with an Assemblies of God congregation, Gospel Tabernacle. As.

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Esther Ahn Kim · The Woman Who Would Not Bow

Esther Ahn Kim was born Ahn Ei Sook in Korea in 1908, when her country was living under increasing Japanese domination. Two years later Japan formally annexed Korea. She grew up amid a struggle that involved.

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Jim Cymbala · A Brooklyn Church Shaped by Prayer

Jim Cymbala grew up in Brooklyn, New York, a city district that would later become the centre of his pastoral work. As a young man he was more familiar with basketball than with the path of a minister. He.