Prayerfulness: Cultivating a Bible-enriched prayer life

Introduction
1. What is prayer?
2. Our relationship with God
God’s promises, actions, character and reputation
3. An anatomy of prayerlessness
4. Enriching our prayers and using written prayers
Praying for ourselves and others
5. Letting the Bible enrich our prayers
Learning to pray the Bible
6. Praying the Lord’s Prayer
7. Jesus and the apostles on prayer
8. Repentance, confession and lament
Services of repentance, confession and lament
9. ‘Unanswered’ prayers
10. Prayer, fasting, decisions and promises
11. Prayer for deliverance and protection

There are many books about prayer, and if, like me, you’ve probably already read one or two, I hope you’ll read one more: Prayerfulness, by Peter Adam. Distilled from a lifetime of studying God’s word and walking in God’s ways, Adam gently diagnoses the causes of our prayerlessness and winsomely invites us into a more prayer-saturated life. With its bullet points, sample prayers, practical advice, and insight into our very human struggle to commune with God in a meaningful and consistent way, this book doesn’t simply tell us to pray; it opens us up and instils in us a greater desire to pray.

—Nancy Guthrie, Author of Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids

Any book that nurtures our prayer life is to be prized. This is such a book. Peter Adam faithfully engages the Bible with pastoral deftness and theological astuteness, and makes numerous practical applications born of experience. A feast.

—Graham Cole, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, USA