Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton, Tim Mackie - foreword

Narrated by: Tyler Staton, Tim Mackie

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises, and yet, people find prayer to be boring, obligatory, or confusing. Join Tyler Staton, author, pastor, and national director of the 24/7 Prayer movement, as he invites you to discover the incredible gift of prayer.

Within Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools, Staton addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are. Through timely biblical teaching, powerful storytelling, and insights on historic Christian practices, Staton gives you the tools you need to:

• Express your doubts and disappointments about prayer
• Discover and practice multiple postures of prayer, including silence, persistence, confession, and more
• Understand and embrace the wonder and mystery of prayer in everyday life
• Open or reopen the line of communication with your Creator and experience afresh his divine power on earth

If you're feeling disheartened, disappointed, or distracted in your prayer life, let Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools be your guide as you learn to enjoy prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined.

Praise for Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools:

"No book has ever left me wanting to pray more. In Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools, Tyler Staton opens our eyes and hearts to the beauty, mystery, and value of prayer in the life of every believer and skeptic."

--Christine Caine, bestselling author and founder of A21 and Propel Women

"'Prayer is a search for help outside the self.' Could any statement be more important for our time? Could any act be more essential to spiritual life in our cultural moment? This is a book for our desperate times. My friend Tyler Staton is a world-class leader, a gifted pastor, an extraordinary writer, and, above all, a man of prayer. By reading this book, you will be learning from a master."

--John Mark Comer, founder of Practicing the Way and author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

©2022 Tyler Staton (P)2022 Zondervan

Vital enrichment to go higher up and deeper in.

This book is for those who long to make prayer a reality transcending duty and practice. This book is for those who realize prayer is experience, devotion, fidelity and relational…but need a loving nudge.

Hearts On Fire

I need these kinds of wake up calls to rekindle a passion that routinely grows cold. This is where discipline and habit become the propulsion for rebellious faithfulness.

Thank you Tyler for an impassioned, creatively crafted primer on the ultimate and most essential key to communion with God. I highly recommend to anyone and everyone no later how experienced you are in conversation with Jesus.

After reading this book, I feel like the disciples who reflected back on precious time with a stranger who turned out to be Jesus… “didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?!”

Or if you prefer, my favorite Rocky (IV) track to work out to… “hearts on fire, strong desire, rages deep within.”

So good!

Timely

Challenging and encouraging - a much needed book, especially for the American church. It does a great job of marrying theological with philosophical with practical.

Amazing read

This book changed and inspired my faith in so many ways. There are practical tips and relatable stories. I cannot recommend it enough!

Incredibly helpful and inspiring book on prayer!

I am so glad I found this book. I found it so inspiring, and just what I needed to move into a deeper prayer life. His stories were also so helpful. Excellent book!

Love It

Absolutely worth a listen regardless of where you are spiritually. Explore the theory and practice of prayer in deep and profound ways.

Enlightening

Tyler Staton is one of my new favorite authors. I enjoyed his perspective on Biblical prayer. He used some incredible stories from his own life and expounded upon famous examples of prayer in the Bible- both old and New Testament, as well as praying Christians over the last 2000 years. Loved this book and recommended it to my church staff already!

It is AWESOME

It’s revealing…

I enjoyed it very much, I loved it.
I can hear it again and again.

Highly recommend this book!

This Book on prayer is not only practical, but inspirational. The author digs into the true character of God—our all powerful, loving Father, etc. And he walks through the passage of Jesus teaching his disciples to pray. Most admirable is the honesty of this book, it hides from nothing. The author vulnerably shares his own prayer journey which has inspired me to spend more time quiet before God…to just enjoy time with him—time in relationship w him.

Amazement of prayer

Sincerity, sincerity, sincerity, truth, sincerity, the wonder of Christ, the power of prayer, sincerity, the power of prayer, the power of prayer