I just started reading this book this week and it has been something I could not put down. This is the story of Don Piper and his experience of being in a horrible car accident dying for 90 minutes and then returning to earth. He talks about how it is that he actually came back to life, through the pray of one man at the scene of the accident; his experience in heaven, and the disappointment of returning to the life as he would now know it.
In the small group study that I just completed with some women, we had many discussions of the reason and the power of prayer. What was the need for prayer if God already knows our thoughts and the outcome, why pray, if he has it all under control? How do we know our prayers are not just hitting the ceiling? If anyone has doubts about the power of prayer, all they need to do is read this book. How can you be anything but convinced that prayer really can change things when you read Don's sotry? Although, I know in my heart my God is big enough to do anything, I am sometimes worried that what He will do is not what I want or will make me uncomfortable in some way. This book has made me think differently about why and how that I pray and that God's answers to prayer a lot of the time are not about me but for someone else, and more importantly to glorify Him.
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