Transforming Prayer: Transformation Of Life, Community & World Through Prayer & Action

By Mark Elcocks

Transforming Prayer asserts that Christianity has never been more relevant that it is today as a force for good. It maintains that individual prayer backed with personal action offers an effective system for individuals to build a personal relationship with God and begin the process of transforming their lives, communities and the wider world. Using The Lord's Prayer as the basis of the system the book suggests meditations, reflections and further reading and resources to the reader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Elcocks
• Release date: Dec 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311237484

Mark Elcocks

Mark Elcocks is the founder of Win4 Ministries - an online Christian Ministry that advocates ethical development of individuals and their commercial activities through the application of Christian principals. Mark served in the British Armed Forces for 16 years before embarking on a sales career in the UK Insurance Sector. A founder member of Training Kings, the UK's largest networking group for Christians in business, Mark continues to work in the Marine Insurance Market as well as promote and grow Win4 Ministries. Mark is a member of the Parochial Church Council of his local parish church.

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TRANSFORMING PRAYER

Transformation of life, community and the world through prayer & action

By Mark Elcocks

Published by Win4 Ministries at Smashwords

Copyright © 2015 Mark Elcocks

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Christianity as a Relevant Force in the 21st Century

Why Pray Anyway?

Our Father in Heaven

Hallowed be Thy Name

Thy Kingdom Come

Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven

Give us this Day Our Daily Bread

Forgive us Our Sins as We Forgive Those Who Sin Against Us

And Lead Us Not into Temptation

But Deliver Us from Evil

For Thine is The Kingdom, The Power and The Glory

About Win4 Ministries

Acknowledgement

INTRODUCTION

If the teachings of Jesus Christ are gifted to humankind to what end does He gift them to us? Does He present us with a vison of desperate hopelessness in our daily lives where the vast majority of us have absolutely neither plan nor means of moving on from a miserable existence? Does Jesus really teach us that the poor or afflicted are as they are because God wills it? Is the message of Jesus, as the corporate teachings of the Church of England would have us believe, that the poor are blessed because they are existing in some kind of holy poverty and will get their reward when they die?

John’s Gospel teaches that Jesus came to give life – life in all its fullness (John 10: 10 NCV)

Transforming Prayer takes us back to basics with one of the first lessons Jesus taught us – how to pray to our God and how to begin using that process as a conduit to beginning transforming your life, your community and your World.

This book is foe individuals who want to take positive action to improve their lives, their communities and the World at large. It can be used by individuals to go deeper into the teachings of Jesus Christ and to discover the keys that he gives each of us to a better life – here on Earth.