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Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

An invitation to the wonder and mystery of prayer.

About this book

Prayer is the source of Jesus’s most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus’ most audacious promises, and yet, most people – even most Bible-believing Christians – find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. In these pages, Tyler Staton – author, pastor, and national director of 24-7 Prayer USA – addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are.

This book is perfect for people who are looking to deepen their devotion and are seeking to catch a fresh excitement about meeting with God in prayer.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

An invitation to the wonder and mystery of prayer.

Deepen Your Prayer Life

The Praying in Color podcast series, hosted by Tyler Staton, explores rich prayer practices handed down through church history with Pete Greig, Katia Adams, John Mark Comer, Rich Villodas, Jon Tyson, and more incredible guests.

Discover the full palette of prayer through practices like silence and solitude, adoration and lament, listening and prophetic prayer, intercession, petition, and many more.

Each Episode Explores A Unique Expression of Prayer

Asking Prayer

Listening Prayer

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Adoration and Lament

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Becoming Our Prayers

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Intercession

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Contemplative Prayer

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Creativity in Prayer

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Confession

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Prayer as a Communal Practice

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Go Deeper with the Companion Guide

After you watch each podcast episode, the companion guide invites you to further explore each week’s prayer practice through reflection questions, tips, Scripture meditations, and a weekly exercise to try. Explore questions like “How might you grow in using your imagination to hear from God?” and “How can you create space in your life to behold or contemplate God?”

About this book

Prayer is the source of Jesus’s most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus’ most audacious promises, and yet, most people – even most Bible-believing Christians – find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. In these pages, Tyler Staton – author, pastor, and national director of 24-7 Prayer USA – addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are.

This book is perfect for people who are looking to deepen their devotion and are seeking to catch a fresh excitement about meeting with God in prayer.