Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans (Pray Daily with Classic Christian Writers John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, John Owen, and more) (Prayers of the Church)

This is a collection of prayers and it’s exactly what I have been searching for. It really help me understand the heart and attitude of the church figures. Now I can have the true idea of what reverence and humility before God looks like.

This book along with the valley of the vision are two of the best Puritan books on prayer. While I think Valley of the vision is organized, better, it also uses more old English, which can make it a little slower to read. Personally, I like that. A different generation of English helps me to treat the prayers a lot more like a song which is great for meditation. This book is not that. This book is a collection of prayers from some of the Puritan, greats written in the more contemporary English. That makes the prayers very approachable and comfortable to read. While all of the prayers are great, the organization of the table of contents is just a tiny bit confusing. It's not very easy to find the specific prayer that you want unless you bookmark them somehow. Regardless, it is important for us to engage with the prayers, and the voices of generations of Christians that came before us. This is a fantastic way to deepen our own prayer life, expand our language of prayer to include things we otherwise would not pray about, and to recognize the greater Christian voice over the last several hundred years. The Puritans rooted their prayers in the scripture, and they are anchored in God's word. For any Christian, I think, engaging with historical voices, is an essential aspect of being a faithful disciple. I would recommend this book.

Love the prayers and the layout. Could not recommend anymore. We use it daily to help with prayers and I love the prayers.

Prayer life, cold, and dry? Revitalize your communication with your creator by reading aloud these prayers. I find them helpful when I don’t know what to say.

The prayers in Piercing Heaven... are published in themes. So, for example, if you are looking for a prayer for grace, you will find several. The Puritans did not pray casually. They did not talk to God the way most American Christians might talk to God. They were more formal, and their speech--especially to God--was full of self-condemnation. But some of them really nail our needs. Read, for example, the first prayer, a variation on what we know as the Lord's Prayer. Wow. These people knew how to pray.

I am going to restart through this even though I’m finished. I have been taking one or two prayers a week for the last two plus years. These have certainly made me to examine my heart as II Corinthians 13:5 exhorts us to do! As the prophet Jeremiah said(chapter 17:9), our heart is deceitfully wicked and only the HOLY SPIRIT can reveal the evil dwelling there in. I highly recommend using this as a devotional prayer guide as you seek the LORD and KING JESUS CHRIST daily.

I was disappointed that the editor of this book did not keep the original language of the Puritans but instead modernized the text. Unfortunately, this is the trend. The original language is not difficult to understand if you’re willing to slow down but we want everything handed to us on a silver platter and not have to work for it. You lose a lot when you modernize the text. A better option is The Valley of Vision. I still gave it four stars because the actual content of course is excellent but it is a shame the editor did not let the Puritans speak in their own words.

The Puritans had it right... a loving heart devoted to serving our sovereign God. These prayers are just beautiful and the authors inner heart is revealed in each prayer. If you like the Valley of Vision, you will love this also.

Que livro! Otimo para auxiliar nos momentos de devocional

Read this if you struggle with praying and speak the words to God. May it be a blessing to your life!

Amazing prayers, so wonderful to read, to pray. Glory to God!

Es muy bonito y lleno de sabiduría

É um livro de orações bem elaboradas! Eu amei, mas vale ressaltar que ele é inglês.