We are all aware of its use in the American pop-culture (if you are not, just read your local news, movie reviews, sports page, or listen for it in the realm of American gossip or in your local gossip circles (I pray you do not have any). Miller’s down-to-earth approach and practical nature will help you see that your relationship with God can grow and your communication with Him can get better. Paul Miller articulated a lot of my cynicism and frustration with prayer (both corporate and individual), and gave me reasons to question my outright dismissal of God as a personal God.

Miller impresses upon you that the crowning achievement of godliness in your life is to be “authentic. Then Paul introduces a simple way to keep track of the many prayer stories that develop as we carry on an intimate conversation with a God who wants us to know and love him.Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. Churches that are true change agents in their communities are congregations for whom prayer is a way of life.

Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are becoming.

The first edition of A Praying Life taught some 350,000 Christians how to pray like children running to their Father for help. You are undoubtedly an authority on the subject but also someone who practices what he preaches as experienced through all the wonderful stories you have shared with me about your prayer work in the life of you and your family.

I respect the author and after the recommendations from a good friend and my pastor, I knew it was a "must read. The book has been very edifying to my walk with the Lord to learn from his mentoring, and begin steps to implement useful ways to organize and align my prayers with the character of God, as well as how I can listen with a childlike sense of wonder how God is answering my prayers through His work around, through and beyond anything I could understand or imagine. Paul Miller’s gift in this book is to bring prayer into the realm of a real person’s real life by lifting the burden of legalism and formulas and the notion that there’s a right way to pray and a wrong way to pray.But when we persist in a spiritual vacuum, when we hang in there during ambiguity, we get to know God. If you read any of Paul’s writing, you’ll quickly see that he loves to tell stories—most of which start with his own failures and mishaps and end with God’s faithfulness. I need to stop worrying about whether I’ve carved out the proper prayer time or quiet time and just start talking to God whenever or wherever it occurs to me.