Prayer and Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit - Wayne Grudem

One of the ablest Calvinistic defenders of continuationism on "Prayer and Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit".

https://youtu.be/V0W0JMFHIXg

Prayer and Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit

What works on prayer have been most influential in your life?

The following was asked in a Facebook group I'm a member of:

"...What works on prayer have been most influential in your life?"

Since others posted their list of works, I decided to do the same. The following is what I posted in that Facebook group:

I consider myself a Calvinistic Continuationist similar to Sam Storms, Wayne Grudem, John Piper, Matt Slick, Vincent Cheung, James K. A. Smith et al.

I've arranged the works into 6 groups: Calvinist; Generally Evangelical [usually "Arminian"]; Charismatic and/or Continuationist; Devotional; Biographies; Spiritual Warfare. They are not in any particular order within each division/category. I've excluded books on divine healing and other more specific topics even though they too have shaped my understanding and practice of prayer.

And Yes, I know the problems with the theology of many of the authors I've listed below. For example, Charles Finney sometimes made/wrote Pelagian and Semi-Pelagian statements. But that doesn't mean that God didn't honor the prayers of Finney, "Father Nash" (Daniel Nash) and the host of other Christians involved in the 2nd Great Awakening. Finney was inconsistent. He also sometimes made statement that were anti-Semi-Pelagian. I know that Andrew Wommack and Don Gossett are "Word of Faith" teachers. I know that Vincent Cheung borders on Hyper-Calvinism, is an empirical skeptic due to his modified Clarkian Scripturalism, and is too harsh in his condemnations of cessationists. I know G.H. Lang taught Hyper-Dispensationalism. I know that Derek Prince was part of the disastrous "Shepherding Movement" (of which he recanted), but continued to hold to peculiar teachings like "generational curses" (of which I have no dogmatic stance on). The problems with Neil T. Anderson's anthropology, hamartiology and demonology. ET CETERA, etc......... The list of books I've given are theologically diverse because I believe God's grace is wider than most Reformed and Catholics realize. My theology is eclectic for that reason.


CALVINIST:

A Call To Prayer by J.C. Ryle [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.monergism.com/call-prayer-ebook

Prayer and the Sovereignty of God by Curt Daniel [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
http://www.faithbibleonline.net/prayer-and-the-sovereignty-of-god/

God's Sovereignty and Prayer by A.W. Pink [chapter 9 of The Sovereignty of God]
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/pink/sovereignty.xii.html

Prayer and Revelation by Vincent Cheung
https://www.vincentcheung.com/books/Prayer%20and%20Revelation.pdf

More resources by Vincent Cheung on continuationism:
https://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/07/vincent-cheung-on-healing.html

Daily Prayers of Master John Bradford by John Bradford

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/bradford/prayers

Of Prayer by John Calvin
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/prayer

Expositions and Prayers from Calvin
https://ia801407.us.archive.org/31/items/scripturetextswi00calv/scripturetextswi00calv_bw.pdf

With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/prayer

Waiting On God by Andrew Murray [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/waiting

The Hidden Life of Prayer by David M. M'Intyre [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.monergism.com/hidden-life-prayer-ebook-0

Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/checkbook

Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/christ/Murray/abide/Abideindex.htm

Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Sermons on which the book was based: https://www.mljtrust.org/free-sermons/spiritual-depression/



GENERALLY EVANGELICAL [usually "Arminian" and/or non-Calvinist]:

The Life of Prayer by A.B. Simpson [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/holiness/Simpson/LifePrayer/TLOP_TOC.htm

How to Pray by R.A. Torrey [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/torrey/pray
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/christ/Torrey/HowPray/HTP_TP.htm

The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/08/em-bounds-on-prayer.html

Prevailing Prayer by D.L. Moody
http://www.thecontinuingwitness.com/uploads/9/8/2/3/98238342/prevailing-prayer-what-hinders-it-dwight-l.-moody.pdf
http://www.godrules.net/library/moody/moody.htm

Treatise on Prayer by Edward Henry Bickersteth  [Anglican, so might have been a Calvinist]
[HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonpray00unkngoog/page/n13
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_treatise_on_prayer.html?id=VMAHAAAAQAAJ

Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A.B. Simpson
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/holiness/Simpson/Days/Daysindex.htm

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25141

Lectures on Revivals of Religion by Charles Finney
http://gospeltruth.net/1868Lect_on_Rev_of_Rel/home68revlec.htm

The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
http://www.heavendwellers.com/hdt_knowledge_of_the_holy.htm

Praying is Working by G.H. Lang (Dispensationalist)
http://www.schoettlepublishing.com/booksonline/lang/praying.htm

Touch the World Through Prayer by Wesley L. Duewel [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]

Mighty Prevailing Prayer by Wesley L. Duewel [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]

Daring to Draw Near by John White

Handle With Prayer by Charles Stanley

God's Chosen Fast by Arthur Wallis

Prayer by O. Hallesby

The God Who Hears by W. Bingham Hunter [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers



CHARISMATIC AND/OR CONTINUATIONIST:

A Better Way to Pray by Andrew Wommack
Sermons on the same topic: https://www.awmi.net/audio/audio-teachings/?pid=pw3fQdOQ&lid=ehCTgeWf

There's Dynamite in Praise by Don Gossett

Power in Praise by Merlin R. Carothers

Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting by Derek Prince

The Secret of Prayer: How and Why We Pray by Enoch Edwin Byrum
https://books.google.com/books?id=hkZGAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


DEVOTIONAL:

Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon [Calvinist] [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/checkbook

Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A.B. Simpson [Evangelical] [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/holiness/Simpson/Days/Daysindex.htm

Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/morneve

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers [Evangelical]

Expositions and Prayers from Calvin [Calvinist]
https://ia801407.us.archive.org/31/items/scripturetextswi00calv/scripturetextswi00calv_bw.pdf



BIOGRAPHIES:

George Muller: Man of Faith and Miracles by Basil Miller [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]

The Life of A.W. Tozer: In Pursuit of God by James L. Snyder [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]

various biographies of John "Praying" Hyde

Remarkable Incidents and Modern Miracles Through Prayer and Faith by G.C. Bevington [autobiography of a Wesleyan]
http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0001-0100/HDM0015.pdf

SPIRITUAL WARFARE:
The Bondage Breaker by Neil T. Anderson

The Adversary: The Christian Versus Demon Activity by Mark I. Bubeck


My list of resources on the topic of Divine Healing:
https://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/07/recommended-resources-on-healing.html

See also my::

Recommended Devotional Material

Recommended Resources on Divine Healing

Debating cessationism

https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2019/04/debating-cessationism.html