by Kelly O' Dell Stanley
A creative prayer experience to transform your time with God
When you talk to God, do you ever wonder if He hears? Do your prayers feel uninspired or routine? Do you sometimes feel like you don't even know how to pray?
Try praying upside down.
Kelly O' Dell Stanley uses her history of visual writings & inspirational techniques, to engage with her readers at an artistic level. She utilizes art and prayer and creates a picture of how to change your perspective when entering into communication with God.
If you have ever had a prayer that has been left unanswered, or felt as though your prayer time was a one-way conversation; you will receive great insight from reading this book.
She suggests that since Jesus was unlike anyone else, we also are free to be unique...and this also applies to our prayer time. Praying Upside Down is a great reminder that as we serve Jesus, He calls us to do things a bit different.
Jesus tells in Matthew Chapter 5 that His kingdom looks a bit different as well.
He says that the poor will inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Those that are mourning are comforted.
The meek will inherit the earth.
The persecuted will receive the kingdom of heaven.
This all is upside down.
Kelly encourages us to look at things differently and to change our perspective on prayer by moving into a different spot...This change of viewpoint will ignite our prayer life and ultimately transform our time with God.
I recommend this as casual reading and also as a small group study.
ISBN 978-1-4143-8983-7
Tyndale Publishers
Blythe Daniel Agency
269 pgs
8 wk study guide sold separately
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