Deepening Your Conversation with God : Learning to Love to Pray

IF YOU LONG TO CALL YOUR PRAYER TIME "SWEET", BUT USUALLY FIND IT FLAT OR WITHOUT TASTE ...IF YOU THIRST TO KNOW GOD THROUGH PRAYER, BUT TOO OFTEN FAIL TO FIND THE TIME FOR PRAYER ...IF YOU DESIRE CONVERSATION WITH GOD, BUT TEND TOWARD A MONOLOGUE INSTEAD ...Ben Patterson, with "I've been there too" reassurance, will encourage and inspire you to turn your prayers from a spiritual discipline to a much-anticipated delight. In this want-to-pray guide, he describes prayer as the work of the Christian, explaining why God covets your prayers and how it gets God's work done on earth.

Ben Patterson is campus pastor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He has served churches in New Jersey and California and was dean of the chapel at Hope College in Michigan before going to Westmont College. He is the author of Deepening Your Conversation with God and is a back-page columnist for Leadership Journal and a contributor to Christianity Today.