Tyler Staton

An invitation to an ordinary yet radical way of life, using historic Christian practices as both inspiring vision and practical instruction for how to encounter the wondrous, mysterious, living God through prayer. Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises, and yet, most people--even most Bible-believing Christians--find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above. If you've ever felt this way, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. In these pages, Tyler Staton--author, pastor, and national director of the 24/7 Prayer movement--addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are. Through biblical teaching, powerful storytelling, and insights on historic Christian practices, Staton helps you . . . 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 Realize that prayer is a powerful invitation to partner with God in the redemption of a fallen world And, ultimately, open or reopen the line of communication with your Creator and experience afresh his divine power on earth

An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

He enjoys Gods presence - he looks forward to being with God

Jesse Stevenson

I fell in love with the God I wasn't sure was listening. I discov- ered that I didn't just "need" God in some ultimate sense; I liked

What does God see, can you get out of yourself and see how God sees 

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view" 

Stillness is the quiet space where God migrates from the periphery back to the center, and prayer pours forth from the life that has God at the center.

Ashlyn Barrett

Prayer invites you to learn to listen to God before speaking, to ask like a child in your old age, to scream your questions in an angry tirade, to undress yourselt in vulnerable confession, and to be loved-completely and totally loved, in spite of everything.

Prayer is the source of my life's greatest celebrations, most heartrending disappointments, and most confusing (and still unanswered) questions.

…because He finds this kid in all of his insecurity, awkwardness, and adolescent nervousness to be irresistibly lovable.

I'm better acquainted with a subconscious drive to control the circumstances overwhelming me than with accepting the unburdening freedom promised in prayer.

Even in a very busy, very distracted world, people still make time for what really matters to them. So there's something deeper, beneath the surface, that keeps us from praying.

I think it's this: for most of us, prayer doesn't resolve our anxiety. 

We don’t pray for fear of being naïve.

Prayer always means submission. To pray is to willingly put ourselves in the unguarded, exposed position. There is no control. There is only humility and hope.

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