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    Pocket Prayers for Moms: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and Rest
    Pocket Prayers for Moms: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and Rest
    Pocket Prayers for Moms: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and Rest
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    Pocket Prayers for Moms: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and Rest

    By Max Lucado

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    No one knows more than moms how quickly the chaos of daily life can become overwhelming. But where can they turn for peace and rest in the midst of mayhem? In Pocket Prayers for Moms, bestselling author Max Lucado points to the source of all hope and strength in forty scriptures and guided prayers written with moms in mind.

    In Pocket Prayers for Moms, Max reminds us that prayer is not a privilege for the pious or the art of a chosen few. Instead, it's simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child.

    Each day you'll find a timeless verse from scripture and a thoughtful prayer designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your relationship with your family, and help you find joy in the everyday highs and lows of motherhood.

    No matter where you are in your journey of motherhood, Max will give you the encouragement you need to face each day, including prayers for:

    • protection and surrender
    • guidance and clarity
    • healing and safety
    • grace and strength

    Pocket Prayers for Moms will remind you that when we invite God into our world, he walks in. He brings a host of gifts: joy, patience, resilience. Anxieties come, but they don't stick. Fears surface and then depart. Regrets land on the windshield, but prayer comes along to wipe it all away.

    Let the conversation begin today with Pocket Prayers for Moms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9780718078300
    Pocket Prayers for Moms: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and Rest
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    Max Lucado

    Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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      Pocket Prayers for Moms - Max Lucado

      The Pocket Prayer

      Hello, my name is Max. I’m a recovering prayer wimp. I doze off when I pray. My thoughts zig, then zag, then zig again. Distractions swarm like gnats on a summer night. If attention deficit disorder applies to prayer, I am afflicted. When I pray, I think of a thousand things I need to do. I forget the one thing I set out to do: pray.

      Some people excel in prayer. They inhale heaven and exhale God. They are the SEAL Team Six of intercession. They would rather pray than sleep. Why is it that I sleep when I pray? They belong to the PGA: Prayer Giants Association. I am a card-carrying member of the PWA: Prayer Wimps Anonymous.

      Can you relate? It’s not that we don’t pray at all. We all pray some.

      On tearstained pillows we pray.

      In grand liturgies we pray.

      At the sight of geese in flight, we pray.

      Quoting ancient devotions, we pray.

      We pray to stay sober, centered, or solvent. We pray when the lump is deemed malignant. When the money runs out before the month does. When the unborn baby hasn’t kicked in a while. We all pray . . . some.

      But wouldn’t we all like to pray . . .

      More?

      Better?

      Deeper?

      Stronger?

      With more fire, faith, or fervency?

      Yet we have kids to feed, bills to pay, deadlines to meet. The calendar pounces on our good intentions like a tiger on a rabbit. We want to pray, but when?

      We want to pray, but why? We might as well admit it. Prayer is odd, peculiar. Speaking into space. Lifting words into the sky. We can’t even get the cable company to answer us, yet God will? The doctor is too busy, but God isn’t? We have our doubts about prayer.

      And we have our checkered history with prayer: unmet expectations, unanswered requests. We can barely genuflect for the scar tissue on our knees. God, to some, is the ultimate heartbreaker. Why keep tossing the coins of our longings into a silent pool? He jilted me once . . . but not twice.

      Oh, the peculiar puzzle of prayer.

      We aren’t the first to struggle. The sign-up sheet for Prayer 101 contains

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