Into the Deep: Finding Peace Through Prayer
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book that can be read in a day. Excellent insight on prayer and an excellent method of prayer. This method is adaptable and easy to learn. It takes practice, though, and commitment. After reading this book, you will feel recharged and positive about beginning (or restarting) your prayer practice. Contrast this method of prayer with the New Age “empty your mind” meditation and you will see the clear advantage Christian prayer has over it. And feel free to dive right in! Lovely book, lovely prayer. Highly recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book came to me directly from the Holy Spirit as I was struggling with the unrest and powerful distractions of evil surrounding me. This book is the most powerful book I’ve read since the Bible itself and I’ve read hundreds of books of hundreds of authors.
I’m soooo very grateful today a 75 page book just changed the rest of my life ??+++??1 person found this helpful
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Into the Deep - Dan Burke
Copyright © 2016 Dan Burke
Published by Beacon Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture passages have been taken from the Revised Standard Version, Catholic edition. Copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Quotes are taken from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America (indicated as CCC), 2nd ed. Copyright 1997 by United States Catholic Conference—Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
Cover design: Dan Donohue
Interior: Finer Points Productions
ISBN: 978-1-942611-51-6 (hard cover)
ISBN: 978-1-942611-53-0 (soft cover)
eISBN: 978-1-929266-77-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Burke, Dan, 1965- author.
Title: Into the deep : finding peace through prayer / Dan Burke.
Description: North Palm Beach : Beacon Publishing, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016027340| ISBN 9781942611516 (hardcover) | ISBN
9781942611530 (softcover) | ISBN 9781942611615 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Prayer—Catholic Church. | Catholic Church—Doctrines.
Classification: LCC BV210.3 .B86 2016 | DDC 248.3/2—dc23
2016027340
Printed in the United States of America [1]
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction: Why Pray?
One: Your Desire for God, God’s Desire for You
Two: Discovery Prayer
Three: Essential Elements for Progress in Prayer
Four: Making a Solemn Commitment to God
Five: Step-by-Step into the Presence of God
Six: Winning the Battle of Prayer
Seven: Experiencing God in Prayer
A Final Word of Encouragement: Be Scrappy
FOREWORD
Prayer is difficult, joyful, challenging, and life-changing. The journey into prayer, into the heart of God, is the reason we were made; it is the reason God brought us into existence.
You have a defining moment before you on this journey. What you are about to read is clear, powerful, and applicable to every Catholic who knows there is something more to life; every Catholic whose heart yearns for something more; every Catholic who wants to know God better.
This defining moment exists because God has brought this book to you. He is reaching out to you again, seeking to draw you near. If you answer the call with all that you are, God will match your commitment, and he will not only meet you where you are, he will take you to a place that you never knew existed, a place where two hearts—God’s and yours—beat as one.
This place, this journey, this battle is worth every ounce of effort you can give it. It is worth everything you own, everything you aspire to be, everything you are. If you commit, persevere, and embrace this journey, you will know the life that Jesus has promised, a life of peace and joy that cannot be taken away by the trials of this world.
Lean in, persevere, learn, practice, fight, embrace, rejoice— God is with you on this journey of prayer.
Matthew Kelly
Some time ago my youngest brother, who is a bit baffled by my faith, asked me an important question: Dan, do you pray every day?
I replied, Yes.
He asked, "Every, every day?"
Again I said, Yes.
He then asked again but with an emphasis in his tone that reflected some measure of disbelief and a demand for an absolutely honest answer. "Every, every, every day?"
A light went on in my head, and I realized what he was really asking me. Dennis, you don’t understand—I don’t pray because I am holy; I pray because I am not.
I continued, "I am not capable of living a life without God. This is why I pray every, every, every day."
The idea of my own incapacity to live even a single day without prayer is not new or unique to me. One of the most oft-quoted sayings in the history of Christianity is St. Augustine’s line in his Confessions, … our heart is restless until it rests in you.
The reason this is cited so often, even more than a thousand years after it