★★★ A masterpiece that highlights the fierce passion to discover the essence of prayer! ★★★
“It will be a valuable guide for today’s churches that have lost the path of prayer.”

This book is a condensation of the author's thoughts and abilities honed in various pastoral settings, including domestic churches, immigrant churches, pioneer churches, alternative churches, and Act Now, and was written based on 35 years of prayer-related meetings and lectures.
While exposing the evils of the Korean church's prayer culture that treats prayer as a means, this book presents an honest and powerful essay on what prayer, as described solely in the Bible, means and how to pray for what.
This is a practical guide that leads believers who only know about prayer in their heads to a place of actual prayer.

★Recommended by Kim Young-bong (author of “Prayer of Fellowship”), Kim Hyo-kyung (pastor of Sandol Church), Ryu Ho-jun (retired professor of Old Testament at Baekseok University), and Jo Sam (former CEO of Interserve Korea)!

What does the Bible say about prayer?
It's an obvious question, but not an easy one.
To answer this question, a proper understanding of the prayer passages found in the Bible is required.
Therefore, we must first diligently study the Bible passages that explain prayer.
It is important to read the Bible both synchronic and diachronic.
If reading the Bible while considering time and historical flow is diachronic reading, synchronic reading is understanding the meaning of what the completed text says.
--- From the "Prologue"

In Matthew 6, we saw that the Lord's Prayer is at the very heart of the Sermon on the Mount, at the very core of its contents.
If the Sermon on the Mount is the principle of life, values, and ethics given as a constitution to disciples who willingly participate in the movement of the Kingdom of God by Jesus Christ, then we must keep in mind the centrality of the Lord's Prayer, which is contained deepest within it.
The Lord's Prayer is still relevant to Christians living in this day and age.
Every single verse of this prayer should always be new to us.
--- From “Chapter 1: The Root of All Prayer, the Lord’s Prayer”

Every prayer's wish is for prayer to be answered.
The basis of hope is God's promise that He will hear us when we pray.
But there is something that must be done first for expectations to become reality.
It is about putting prayer into practice.
The secret to answered prayer is not reading books on prayer, but praying.
It is not extensive theories about prayer and rich biblical knowledge that lead us to prayer, but the holy habit of prayer that leads us to the place of prayer.
If you close this book and immediately go to prayer, then this book has fulfilled its duty.
--- From "Chapter 2 I Will Not Leave You Like an Orphan"

Carlo Carretto, a 20th-century spiritualist who spent ten years in silence and solitude in the Sahara Desert, dedicated himself to work and prayer, says:
“God gives us a boat and oars and says,
“You must row the boat.” This is why we must pray.
Let's go back to the first question.
“God has a plan for the world and is working sovereignly, so why do we need to pray?” Now our answer is clear.
We must pray.
“God knows all our needs without us asking, so should we still pray?” Likewise, our answer is “yes.”
The hope of prayer is based on the fact that the Lord wants our prayers.
God's promises are fulfilled through the channel of prayer.
I emphasize again and again that there is no answer without prayer.
We who row must row.
--- From “Chapter 3 Still, My People Pray to Me”

The experience of faith is not determined by the length of one's religious life.
You cannot experience God without prayer.
Without experiencing God, we are still children, no matter how many years pass (Hebrews 5:12).
How long will we remain in a faith that only hears testimonies that Jehovah is good?
If you desire the faith to taste the goodness of Jehovah, pray.
David invites us all to experience the power of prayer that he experienced.
“Taste and see that the LORD is good.
“Blessed is he who takes refuge in him.” Do we really have an experience that can be called a ‘prayer of life’?
--- From “Chapter 4: Taste the Goodness of Jehovah”

This is one of the most vivid and dramatic scenes in the entire Bible depicting God answering the prayers of the afflicted.
I cannot express this scene politely or portray it gently, and I cannot read this passage indifferently even once.
Whenever I lead a prayer meeting, I come to this verse and I become so intoxicated by the grace of this word that I end up acting it out.
But it's nearly impossible to put into words what I feel.
I hope that each reader will read each verse and feel and taste the image of God's wrath in response to David's prayer.
--- From “Chapter 5: God Responds to the Voices of the Suffering”

In fact, the prayer of the whole body is not a unique form of prayer of our country, but was learned from Western churches, or more precisely, from missionaries.
According to historical research by Professor Yong-gyu Park, a historical theologian, the first introduction of the prayer of unity to the Korean church was in 1906.
In September 1906, Howard Agnew Johnston visited Korea and led a missionary meeting in Seoul.
At this time, Johnstone shared with the congregation the news of the revival in the churches of Wales and India, and introduced that the main factor and characteristic of this amazing revival was prayer in unison, and then led them in prayer in unison.
--- From “Chapter 8: Is Prayer Necessary?”

We have already been crucified with Christ.
None of us live for ourselves, but rather for the joy of God.
As such disciples, let us pray together for the Fiat.
“God, who created the world to fulfill your holy will, please fulfill your will for the restoration of all creation and humanity.
And may my life be one that accepts God's will and lives in accordance with His purpose." This is the prayer and life that seeks God's kingdom and His righteousness.
In that sense, Fiat is a guide who leads us into deep prayer.
--- From “Chapter 11: Restore Fiat Prayer”

If the content of this new covenant is the promise of the kingdom of God through Jesus Christ, then it is our duty to embrace the new covenant and pray, and that is to “seek first his kingdom and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:33).
In that sense, “through prayer, God enables humans to participate in God’s plan.
Jacques Ellul's view that "through prayer we become God's co-workers" is correct.
Only through prayer can we have the glory of participating in God's great and mysterious work.
--- From “Chapter 12 Prayer with the Covenant”

This perspective of enjoyment and use is also useful as a way of praying.
God has allowed us to pray as a means of grace.
Therefore, the correct way to use prayer is to enjoy it.
But some people do not enjoy prayer and use it.
Prayer is a means, not an end.
So then, what is the difference between prayer as enjoyment and prayer as use?
--- From “Chapter 13 Prayer is Enjoyment”

All prayers are acceptable to God, but not all prayers are right.
God listens to all our prayers, but He expects our prayers to mature.
Let's begin the final chapter of this book with this question:
“If you could only pray one prayer, what would it be?” This may not be an easy question.
But if someone asks me this question, I have my answer ready.
“Maranatha, come, Lord.”

--- From “Chapter 14: The Most Urgent and Important Prayer, Maranatha”