Abiding

For many, prayer has become ritual, emergency response or religious obligation. Yet in Abiding, BISHOP GEORGE BLOOMER reveals that true prayer was never meant to be occasional conversation alone. Prayer was designed to become consciousness, communion and continual awareness of God.

Drawing deeply from scripture, spiritual insight and years of prayerful experience, Bishop Bloomer uncovers the invisible war over human attention, appetite, discernment and spiritual sensitivity. He reveals how distraction weakens awareness, how prayer sharpens discernment and how abiding in God transforms the inward life of the believer.

This book explores:

• the difference between saying prayers and living a life of prayer

• the secret place and spiritual formation

• the relationship between discernment and appetite

• warfare in the mind and the battle over consciousness

• intercession, spiritual sensitivity and the burden of prayer

• the difference between presence and performance

• why abiding produces spiritual stability in unstable times.

With prophetic depth and piercing clarity, Abiding confronts distracted Christianity and calls believers back to intimacy with God. These pages will challenge shallow spirituality, awaken spiritual awareness and restore hunger for genuine communion with the presence of God.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man does more than change circumstances. It changes the man praying.