Many Great Books on Prayer

A lot of great books on prayer can be downloaded at https://servantofmessiah.org/

The direct link is: https://servantofmessiah.org/prayer-ebooks/

The differing views on prayer in those books can help anyone develop their own theology and practices of prayer. I've also posted some books on prayer on my own blog here. For example, one of my favorite books on prayer, The Life of Prayer by A.B. Simpson. Also J.C. Ryle's A Call To Prayer.

The Power of Persevering Prayer – By Andrew Murray

The Power of Persevering Prayer – By Andrew Murray

 

Sermon

And the Lord said, “Men ought always to pray, and not to faint…

There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:1-8)

Of all the mysteries of the prayer world the need of persevering prayer is one of the greatest.

That the Lord, who is so loving and longing to bless, should have to be asked, time after time, sometimes year after year, before the answer comes, we cannot easily understand. It is also one of the greatest practical difficulties in the exercise of believing prayer. When, after persevering pleading, our prayer remains unanswered, it is often easiest for our lazy flesh, and it has all the appearance of pious submission, to think that we must now cease praying, because God may have His secret reason for withholding His answer to our request. It is by faith alone that the difficulty is overcome. When once faith has taken its stand on God’s word and the Name of Jesus, and has yielded itself to the leading of the Spirit to seek God’s will and honor alone in its prayer, it need not be discouraged by delay. It knows from Scripture that the power of believing prayer is simply irresistible; real faith can never be disappointed. It knows that just as water, to exercise the irresistible power it can have, must be gathered up and accumulated until the stream can come down in full force, so there must often be a heaping up of prayer until God sees that the measure is full, when the answer comes. It knows that just as the peasant farmer has to take his ten thousand steps to sow his tens of thousands seeds, each one a part of the preparation for the final harvest, so there is a need for often repeated persevering prayer, all working out some desired blessing. It knows for certain that not a single believing prayer can fail of its effect in heaven, but has its influence, and is treasured up to work out an answer in due time to him who perseveres to the end. It knows that it has to do, not with human thoughts or possibilities, but with the word of the living God. And so, even as Abraham through so many years “who against hope believed in hope” (Romans 4:18), and then “followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Hebrews 6:12)

To enable us, when the answer to our prayer does not come at once, to combine quiet patience and joyful confidence in our persevering prayer, we must especially try to understand the words in which our Lord sets forth the character and conduct, not of the unjust judge, but of our God and Father, toward those whom He allows to cry day and night to Him: “I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.” (Luke 18:8)

He will avenge them quickly, the Master says. The blessing is all prepared; He is not only willing, but most anxious, to give them what they ask; everlasting love burns with the longing desire to reveal itself fully to its beloved and to satisfy their needs. God will not delay one moment longer than is absolutely necessary; He will do all in His power to expedite and rush the answer.

But why, if this is true and His power is infinite, does it often take so long for the answer to prayer to come? And why must God’s own elect so often, in the middle of suffering and conflict, cry day and night? He is waiting patiently while He listens to them. “Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.” (James 5:7) The farmer does, indeed, long for his harvest, but knows that it must have its full amount of sunshine and rain, and he has long patience. A child so often wants to pick the half-ripe fruit; the farmer knows how to wait until the proper time. Man, in his spiritual nature too, is under the law of gradual growth that reigns in all created life. It is only in the path of development that he can reach his divine destiny. And it is the Father, in whose hand are the times and seasons, who knows the moment when the soul or the Church is ripened to that fullness of faith in which it can really take and keep the blessing. Like a father who longs to have his only child home from school, and yet waits patiently until the time of training is completed, so it is with God and His children: He is the patient One, and answers quickly.

The insight into this truth leads the believer to cultivate the corresponding dispositions: patience and faith, waiting and anticipating, are the secret of his perseverance. By faith in the promise of God, we know that we have the petitions we have asked of Him. Faith takes and holds the answer in the promise as an unseen spiritual possession, rejoices in it, and praises for it. But there is a difference between the faith that thus holds the word and knows that it has the answer and the clearer, fuller, riper faith that obtains the promise as a present experience. It is in persevering, not unbelieving, but confident and praising prayer, that the soul grows up into that full union with its Lord in which it can enter upon the possession of the blessing in Him. There may be in these around us, there may be in that great system of being of which we are part, there may be in God’s government, things that have to be put right through our prayer before the answer can fully come: the faith that has, according to the command, believed that it has received, can allow God to take His time; it knows it has prevailed and must prevail. In quiet, persistent, and determined perseverance it continues in prayer and thanksgiving until the blessing comes. And so we see combined what at first sight appears contradictory–the faith that rejoices in the answer of the unseen God as a present possession and the patience that cries day and night until it be revealed. The quickness of God’s patience is met by the triumphant but patient faith of His waiting child.

Our great danger, in this school of the answer delayed, is the temptation to think that, after all, it may not be God’s will to give us what we ask. If our prayer be according to God’s word, and under the leading of the Spirit, let us not give way to these fears. Let us learn to give God time. God needs time with us. If only we give Him time, that is, time in the daily fellowship with Himself, for Him to exercise the full influence of His presence on us, and time, day by day, in the course of our being kept waiting, for faith to prove its reality and to fill our whole being, He Himself will lead us from faith to vision; we shall see the glory of God. Let no delay shake our faith. Of faith it holds good: first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Each believing prayer brings a step nearer the final victory. Each believing prayer helps to ripen the fruit and bring us nearer to it; it fills up the measure of prayer and faith known to God alone; it conquers the hindrances in the unseen world; it hastens the end. Child of God, give the Father time. He is patiently listening to you. He wants the blessing to be rich, and full, and sure; give Him time, while you cry day and night. Only remember the word: “I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.” (Luke 18:8)

The blessing of such persevering prayer is unspeakable. There is nothing so heart-searching as the prayer of faith. It teaches you to discover and confess, and to give up everything that hinders the coming of the blessing, everything there may not be in accordance with the Father’s will. It leads to closer fellowship with Him who alone can teach us to pray, to a more entire surrender to draw near under no covering but that of the blood and the Spirit. It calls for a closer and more simple abiding in Christ alone. Christian, give God time. He will perfect that which concerns you. Let it be thus whether you pray for yourself or for others. All labor, bodily or mental, needs time and effort: we must give up ourselves up to it. Nature discovers her secrets and yields her treasures only to diligent and thoughtful labor. However little we can understand it, in the spiritual farming it is the same: the seed we sow in the soil of heaven, the efforts we put forth, and the influence we seek to exert in the world above, need our whole being: we must give ourselves to prayer. But let us hold firm the great confidence that in due season we will reap if we don’t give up.

And let us especially learn the lesson as we pray for the Christ’s Church. She is, indeed, like the poor widow, in the absence of her Lord, apparently at the mercy of her adversary, helpless to obtain restitution. Let us, when we pray for His Church or any portion of it, under the power of the world, asking Him to visit her with the mighty workings of His Spirit and to prepare her for His coming– let us pray in the assured faith: prayer does help, praying always and not stopping will bring the answer. Only give God time. And then keep crying out day and night. “And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them?” (Luke 18:6-7)

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Pray Boldly by John MacArthur

The following sermon by John MacArthur caused a kind of stir among his listeners because it almost sounded like a denial of God's Sovereignty, or as dishonoring to God. Some even thought that it bordered on a view of prayer taught by Charismatics,  or "worse" by the "Word of Faith Movement".  Being a Calvinistic Continuationist (or "Reformed Charismatic"), I wholeheartedly agree with and recommend MacArthur's sermon about boldness in prayer.

Here's the sermon from MacArthur's website:

https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/42-157/pray-boldly

The website offers the option of freely downloading the mp3 version of the sermon. Since the webpage might not last forever, I've downloaded the sermon and uploaded it elsewhere so that anyone will be able to download it indefinitely: Download it HERE


See also Anaideia and the Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:8) by Klyne Snodgrass [ or HERE]

God is, if I may so say, at the command of the prayer of faith; and in this respect is, as it were, under the power of his people; as princes, they have power with God, and prevail.- Jonathan Edwards
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/works1.ix.vi.iii.html

The Lord not only allows his people to put him in remembrance of his promises and prophecies, but to plead for, and, as it were, require the performance of them; and so the words are an encouragement to the importunate prayer of faith. Faith in prayer has great power with God, a kind of command over him; it holds him to his word; it will not let him go without the blessing; nor let him alone till he has made good his promise; nor give him any rest, day nor night, till he has fulfilled the things to come concerning his sons.- John Gill Commentary on Isa. 45:11
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/isaiah/45.htm



 

True Prayer—True Power! by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A classic sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon on prayer. Highly Recommended! The following are various sources for the sermon in both audio and text formats.

https://youtu.be/DvM0xCkUhFk

https://youtu.be/x2o3h6_-kHU

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=770494616

The sermon in text format:

http://archive.spurgeon.org/sermons/0328.php

https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/true-prayer-true-power#flipbook/

https://www.reformedreader.org/spurgeon/1860-09.htm


See also the following blogpost where I've collected some quotations on divine healing. Some of the quotations are from Charles H. Spurgeon where he addresses divine spiritual healing, divine physical healing or both.

Quotes on Divine [Physical] Healing

Continually Asking for and being Filled with the Holy Spirit

 "Be Filled With The Holy Spirit" Eph 5:18 - Wayne Grudem

https://youtu.be/zarT9x4ancA

The following is an excerpt from chapter 13 of E.M. Bounds' book The Reality of Prayer.

............The whole lesson culminates in asking for the Holy Spirit as the great objective point of all praying. In the direction in the Sermon on the Mount, we have the very plain and definite promise, “If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to them that ask him?” In Luke we have “good things” substituted by “the Holy Spirit.” All good is comprehended in the Holy Spirit and He is the sum and climax of all good things.

How complex, confusing and involved is many a human direction about obtaining the gift of the Holy Spirit as the abiding Comforter, our Sanctifier and the one who empowers us! How simple and direct is our Lord’s direction—ASK! This is plain and direct. Ask with urgency, ask without fainting. Ask, seek, knock, till He comes. Your Heavenly Father will surely send Him if you ask for Him. Wait in the Lord for the Holy Spirit. It is the child waiting, asking, urging and praying perseveringly for the Father’s greatest gift and for the child’s greatest need, the Holy Spirit.

How are we to obtain the Holy Spirit so freely promised to those who seek Him believingly? Wait, press, and persevere with all the calmness and with all the ardour of a faith which knows no fear, which allows no doubt, a faith which staggers not at the promise through unbelief, a faith which in its darkest and most depressed hours against hope believes in hope, which is brightened by hope and strengthened by hope, and which is saved by hope.

Wait and pray—here is the key which unlocks every castle of despair, and which opens’ every treasure-store of God. It is the simplicity of the child’s asking of the Father, who gives with a largeness, liberality, and cheerfulness, infinitely above everything ever known to earthly parents. Ask for the Holy Spirit—seek for the Holy Spirit—knock for the Holy Spirit. He is the Father’s greatest gift for the child’s greatest need.

In these three words, “ask,” “seek” and “knock,” given us by Christ, we have the repetition of the advancing steps of insistency and effort. He is laying Himself out in command and promise in the strongest way, showing us that if we will lay ourselves out in prayer and will persevere, rising to higher and stronger attitudes and sinking to deeper depths of intensity and effort, that the answer must inevitibly come. So that it is true the stars would fail to shine before the asking, the seeking and the knocking would fail to obtain what is needed and desired.

There is no elect company here, only the election of undismayed, importunate, never-fainting effort in prayer: “For to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.” Nothing can be stronger than this declaration assuring us of the answer unless it be the promise upon which it is based, “And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given you.”

Some free online books on the Holy Spirit Here.

Dr. James White Interviews Dr. Brown About the Charismatic Movement

Dr. James White Interviews Dr. Brown About the Charismatic Movement

https://youtu.be/ek8Fumw2zuQ

Dr. Michael L. Brown Interviewed by Atheist Tom Jump

Dr. Michael Brown is considered by most people on all sides (Christian, Jewish, Atheist etc.) as the top apologist in dealing with evidences for Jesus' Messiahship. In the following interview atheist Tom Jump asks Michael Brown his reasons for believing in the Christian God. Dr. Brown recounts some of his own experiences of the supernatural, answered prayer, healing et cetera.

https://youtu.be/ti7rYJlhKIw

Dr. Brown mentioned the following book recommentations like:

Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts by Craig S. Keener

The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for the Supernatural by Lee Strobel

Eyewitness to Miracles: Watching the Gospel Come to Life by Randy Clark

I'd also include:

Healing Miracles: A Doctor Investigates by Rex Gardner

Dr. Brown also mentioned Candy Gunther Brown's literature. Presumably he means at the very least Brown's books:

Testing Prayer: Science and Healing by Candy Gunther Brown

Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing by Candy Gunther Brown

In a previous blog I linked to videos by Candy Gunther Brown:

Testing Prayer: Science and Miraculous Healing - Candy Gunther Brown at Boston College

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

Gospel Power Panel Discussion: Piper, Storms, Chan, Meyer, & Núñez

Gospel Power Panel Discussion: Piper, Storms, Chan, Meyer, & Núñez
https://youtu.be/qEQ3CenOqy8

Spiritual Gifts in Church History by Sam Storms

The following are links to the four part article by fellow Calvinist continuationist Sam Storms

Spiritual Gifts in Church History by Sam Storms

Part 1
https://www.samstorms.com/enjoying-god-blog/post/spiritual-gifts-in-church-history--1-

Part 2
https://www.samstorms.com/enjoying-god-blog/post/spiritual-gifts-in-church-history--2-

Part 3
https://www.samstorms.com/enjoying-god-blog/post/spiritual-gifts-in-church-history--3-

Part 4
https://www.samstorms.com/enjoying-god-blog/post/spiritual-gifts-in-church-history--4-


see also:

The Ministry of Healing by A.J. Gordon

The Case for Miracles (Lee Strobel)

The Case for Miracles (Lee Strobel)

https://youtu.be/s_GCrGSx6uA

Paul Washer Believes In The Holy Spirit

The following is an except of a sermon by Calvinist Paul Washer. I doubt Washer would consider himself a continuationist, but he often make statements that undermine normative cessationism and make cessationists uncomfortable. Something which you don't hear much from Calvinists like himself. Confirmed Calvinistic continuationists include Wayne Grudem, John Piper, Sam Storms, Matt Slick, Vincent Cheung et al.

See also Paul Washer's sermon The Glory of God in Moral Purity [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]

(click here for the FULL SERMON)

(click here for the SermonIndex webpage that hosts the full sermon)
(click here to listen to the FULL SERMON on YouTube)

(click here to listen or download the FULL SERMON at SermonAudio website)

Recommended Devotional Material

Someone asked me what devotional material I recommend. I'm no authority on the subject but I gave some recommendations off the top of my head. Most of them were freely available online. I didn't want to lose the collection of links and realized it would make a good blogpost. So, I've posted my response below (with minor editing).

It would depend on your taste. I myself don't limit myself to Calvinistic literature [The person who asked is a Calvinist like myself, but may not also be a continuationist-AP]. But if you're looking for Reformed [i.e. Calvinistic] stuff, I hear [The] Valley of Vision is good. One can never go wrong with Spurgeon's Morning and Evening along with his 'Checkbook of Faith" (AKA Faith's Checkbook). Various websites have them for viewing or download (e.g. http://www.spurgeon.org/medit.php).

There are a lot of other Reformed devotional material at https://www.monergism.com/topics/prayer/devotional.

I would also recommend good books on prayer. For example, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND The Hidden Life of Prayer by David M'Intyre (last name spelled in various ways including "MacIntyre"). https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/hidden.html

I think there are 32 chapters in Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer which can be accessed at www.ccel.org
Anything by Murray can be turned into a devotional like his "Abide in Christ".

I also recommend Curt Daniel's Prayer and the Sovereignty of God. http://www.faithbibleonline.net/prayer-and-the-sovereignty-of-god/ I'm not sure, but I think it's a transcript of one of his Calvinism lectures: https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/histtheocalvin.html

I would also recommend A.W. Pink's chapter on prayer and God's sovereignty in his classic book, The Sovereignty of God: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/pink/sovereignty.html

Almost anything by Thomas Watson can be turned into a devotional reading. For example, A Divine Cordial: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/ipb-e/epl-10/web/watson-cordial.html
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/watson/cordial.html

Or his book The Art of Divine Contentment.
http://grace-ebooks.com/library/Thomas%20Watson/TW_The%20Art%20of%20Divine%20Contentment.pdf
or https://www.ccel.org/ccel/watson/contentment.html

Speaking of contentment, Jeremiah Burroughs' Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is also good: https://www.preachtheword.com/bookstore/contentment.pdf

When it comes to non-Calvinistic books on prayer, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND A.B. Simpson's The Life of Prayer. I so recommend it, I posted a copy of the book on one of my blogs here:
http://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-life-of-prayer-by-absimpson.html

Also, A.B. Simpson's daily devotional Days of Heaven on Earth which is freely online too (e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28416, or https://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/simpson).

Arminian R.A. Torrey's book How To Pray is a classic. Many websites have it like: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/torrey/pray.html

In the Catholic tradition, I recommend Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/kempis/imitation.html

Martin Luther recommended Theologia Germanica: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/theologia.html

Arminian A.W. Tozer's book The Knowledge of the Holy :http://www.heavendwellers.com/hdt_knowledge_of_the_holy.htm

Or The Pursuit of God :http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/tozer/5f00.0888/5f00.0888.c.htm
or http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25141/25141-h/25141-h.htm

Man the Dwelling Place of God:
http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/tozer/5j00.0010/5j00.0010.c.htm
or http://www.dailybread.com.au/e-books/AW_Tozer/Man%20-%20the%20Dwelling%20Place%20of%20God.pdf

Or E.M. Bound's books on prayer: http://charismatamatters.blogspot.com/2013/08/em-bounds-on-prayer.html

Reformed folk consider Charles Finney a Pelagian, I think he was either Semi-Pelagian or nearly non-Pelagian. I find some of stuff in Lectures on Revivals of Religion to be good. Spit out the bones, and eat the meat: http://www.gospeltruth.net/1868Lect_on_Rev_of_Rel/index68revlec.html

Finally, I recommend reading biographies of past Christians.

For example, George Mueller. A good beginning one is the one by Basil Miller.

Augustine's Confessions (I recommend the Rex Warner translation. Though, people have given high praise to Maria Boulding's translation as well as the one by F. J. Sheed) Your local library should have a copy of one of those translations.

I could recommend more, but those are off the top of my head.

For those who are Continuationists like myself, I would also recommend some of the books in my blogpost:

Recommended Resources on Divine Healing

 As I pointed out in that blogpost, some of the book recommendations are not on the topic of divine healing, but relate to it for some reason or another. For example, because they address the issue of prayer and/or faith. I also said in that blogpost that I don't necessarily agree with everything taught in any book I might recommend. When reading any book discernment is necessary. We all need to learn to spit out the bones and dine on the meat.