BOOKS THAT TEACH ABOUT THE CONNECTION
BETWEEN PRAYER AND GOD’S FELT PRESENCE.
–J.B.–

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1948). Wesleyan; Ravenhill recommends.

Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Moody, 1955). Washer recommends. Calvinist.

Autobiography of George Muller (Baker, 1981). Washer recommends. Calvinist.

Leonard Ravenhill, ed. A Treasury of Prayer…E. M. Bounds (Bethany House, 1981). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. Why Revival Tarries (Bethany House Publishers, 1959). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. Meat for Men (Bethany House Publishers, 1961). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. Revival Praying (Bethany House Publishers, 1962). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. Tried and Transfigured (Bethany House Publishers, 1963). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. Sodom Had No Bible (Bethany House Publishers, 1971). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. America Is Too Young to Die (Bethany House Publishers, 1979). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

—. Revival God’s Way (Bethany House Publishers, 1983). Wesleyan; Washer recommends.

J. Douglas MacMillan, Jesus: Power Without Measure (Evangelical Press, 2015). Washer recommends.

Charles Spurgeon, Twelve Sermons on Prayer (Baker, 1989). Washer recommends. Calvinist.

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Whitaker House, 1982). Catholic; read with caution. Wesley recommends.

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1910). Catholic; read with caution; comprehensive teaching on miraculous gifts coming out of a person’s private prayer life.

Richard J. Foster, Prayer (HarperCollins, 1992). Broadly evangelical; occasionally quotes heretical teachers with universalist leanings; read with caution. But unique in that its thorough and classifies many different ways of prayer. Partially Wesleyan.

John Wimber, Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987). In the vein of Richard J. Foster; solely focused on healing prayer. Partially Wesleyan.

John Cassian, Conferences (Paulist Press, 1985). Catholic; read with caution; based on interviews with the Desert Fathers in the fourth century.

Thomas Dubay, Fire Within (Ignatius Press, 1989). Catholic; read with caution; a study of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.