Prayer Essentials picks up where Prayer Portions left off. Prayer Essentials will whet your holy hunger to see God move in our day with His awesome reviving presence. It will challenge you toward clean hands and pure heart and equip you for new levels of spiritual opposition. It builds on the Father-heart and intimate friendship with God in Prayer Portions. It emphasizes the pleasures of prayer, beyond duty to joy and delight. It will lead you to actually keep company with God often in prayer, not just talk about prayer. It will encourage your praying with a keen sense of the presence of God. It is for those who are serious about consciously living in God's presence and praying by His direction. It contains fresh inspiration for times when you have prayed everything you know to pray and need the help of the Holy Spirit in praying His prayers.
Intimacy With God In His Transforming Presence -31 essentials Challenges us to new commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ, encourages new intimacy with Him, and sharpens our ears for hearing Him. He wants to give us new hearts with new love, joy, peace in the Holy Spirit, as we present our lives to Him as a sweet fragrance of sacrifice worshiping, interceding. God will entice us to draw closer and sustain us in trying times, as we cry out, "Radically make me new with Your transforming presence."
Intercession By His Interceding Presence -54 essentials stimulates us to live an intercessory life, birthed in prayer, based on prayer, and bathed in prayer as our necessity. The prayer relationship is a lifestyle of conversation with Him in everything. We intercede when our hearts are inflamed with passion, desperation, and fervency. God will do more with days of that kind of passionate importunity in His presence than in years of man's programs. We cry, "Holy Spirit, pray Your prayers through us."
The Word of God And His Living Presence -25 essentials leads us to live today in the presence of God through His living, active Word. The Spirit breathes His prayers to us through His Word, our prayer-book. It is alive, active, strong, effectual, penetrating, piercing, permeating, and productive! A passionate love for the Word of God is essential for living in the presence of God. We cry, "Bread of heaven, feed us 'til we want no more."
Table of Contents
Dedication
For My Lord Jesus
Acknowledgements
Explanations
1 Introduction
Oh the Glory of Your Presence
Oh Love, That Wilt Not Let Me Go
Introduction
What God is Saying to me for This Year
On the Peace of His Presence
What to Say About me?
2 Intimacy with God
Be Thou my Vision
Introduction
Intimacy with God in His Presence
My Morning Declaration
The More
Christ is All That Matters
Personally Praying the Lords Prayer
Surplus and Deficit
Face-to-Face with God
View from Back Side of the Desert
God Keeps the Night Watches
From Victory to Victory
Essential Time in His Presence
God Will Go Before Us
Seeing Gods Hand
God Really Loves me
How Not to Hear from God
Jesus Prayed for me in John 17
Personally Praying Psalm 91
A Personal Psalm 91
Praying Acts 17
Praying the Be Attitude
Praying Psalm 9
Praying Psalm 27
Praying Psalms 28
Recipe for Peace
Be Still my Daughter
Standing Checklist
Strengthened in the Lord
Praying Ephesians
Healing Words
After Significant Prayer
Comfort Resources
3 Intercession
Intercession by His Interceding Presence
Brethren, We Have met to Worship
Intercessory Worship
What Moves the Hand of God?
Ask, Seek, Knock
Cover all the Bases Prayer Plan
Pleading Your Case in the Court of Heaven
Your Kingdom Come Praying
Prayer for Physical Healing
Praying Psalm 18 in Trouble
Let There Be Praying
Generational Heritage
Evening Prayer for Your Household
Prayer for Reconciling Conflict
Praying Thessalonians 2:13-3:5 for Children
A Fathers Prayer
Prayerwalking your School
Praying for Rebellious Ones
Dry Bones Praying
Praying from Isaiah 33
Praying for Children Moving Away from Home
Abba-Prayer for the Touch of Father God
Special Blessings Prayer
Basic Needs of Adult Sons and Daughters
Prayer for Favor
Prayer for Direction and Encouragement
Holy Exchange Prayer
Refreshment Prayer for Weary Ones
Head-to-toe Prayer
Praying Psalm 91 The Place of Protection
Mighty Men of Prayer for Spiritual Leaders
Are you Covered in Prayer Daily?
Praying Psalm 31 for Pastors and Spiritual Leaders
Praying Psalm 25 for Pastors and Spiritual Leaders
Praying 1 Samuel 16:18 for Leaders
Praying like Pauls Prayer Partners
Prayer for Blessing a Business
Praying for a Business Property or Job Site
Praying the Lords Prayer for Missionaries
Praying Psalm 146 Formula for Failure, Secret of Success
Praying Psalm 92
Praying for a Nation
Praying the Names of God for a Nation
Reaching the World on Your Knees
Introduction to Healing Prayer
Healing Hurts was the Life of Jesus
The Luke 4:18-19 Mission of Jesus
From Defeat to Abundant Life
Praying for the Abundant Life of Jesus
Good Samaritan Prayer
Bitter Roots, Bitter Fruit Pulling out Roots of Bitterness
Prayer that Removes Yokes
You Know Youve Been Jezebelled When . . .
Prayer for Healing a Fatherless Generation
4 The Word of God
Holy Bible, Book Divine
Introduction
Psalm 119 Loving Gods Word
Glimpses of His Grace
The Word of His Grace
How the Church Prayed in Acts
The Non-negotiable Presence of the Holy Spirit
The Gift and Fullness of the Spirit
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Holy Spirit Filled Believers
Living in Acts Chapter 29
Relationship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Why Anoint with Oil Today
What Amazed People About Jesus
In the Lord
Waiting on God
Hope
The Good Shepherd and the Lords Prayer
In the Presence of Gods Word
Pleasing God
Snares
Character of Godly Wisdom
Strife
Living Titus 3:9-11
Psalms of Victory for 31 Days
5 Amen
The Lord Bless you and Keep You
Epilogue
Alphabetical Index of Titles
Index
About the Auhtor
Over the past 30 years,Sylvia Gunter has led groups, spoken, led retreats, done prayer counseling, and faced individual prayer challenges. All of Sylvia's resources are developed in prayer in real life situations in response to real needs. Believers around the world have graciously said that God has used these materials to encourage, strengthen, comfort, and equip them for deeper relationship with Him and effective intercession.
Prayer Portions and For The Familywas the first overflow of those experiences. Then God led Sylvia through her own back-side-of-the-desert experience, from which Prayer Essentials For Living In His Presence is the overflow. Sylvia's spiritual journey is evident in the "Intimacy With God" section. You can trace God's footprints in the healing prayers in the "Intercession" section. You can trace the source of her strength in the "Word Of God" section. God's new depth for her is visible in the "Worship" and "Repentance And Revival" sections. His new arenas where He wants to reveal Himself as Mighty Warrior can be seen in the "Spiritual Warfare" sections.
Sylvia lives in Birmingham with her husband John, now retired from his position as a telecommunications executive. They have three adult children (Charley, David, and Elizabeth), and two grandkids (Richmond and Margie Louise).