On My Knees: Rebuilding Our Confidence In Prayer

by Krish Kandiah (Foreword), Chris Band

Many people today have lost their enthusiasm for petitionary prayer because, to their minds, it has failed to live up to its promise. This current disillusionment is unfortunate, being the result of superficial and selective approaches to Scripture. This book takes the reader beyond wishful thinking and proof-texting to the heart of what the Bible actually teaches about prayer. By placing profound theological truth back into the hands of the non-theologian, it helps the reader to examine their own ideas about who God is and how he relates to the world. This results in increasing confidence as expectations about prayer are re-shaped to more accurately reflect God's priorities and promises.

240 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2016

About the author

Krish is the founding director of Home For Good, a young charity seeking to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children by finding loving homes for children in the care system. He is an advocate for fostering and adoption. He has written 13 books including the catalytic "Home for Good: Making a Difference for Vulnerable Children"and the award winning "Paradoxology" and now his latest book "Faitheism: Why Christianity and Atheism have more in common than you think." (Hodder 2018) Dr Kandiah has been published in the Times of London. the Guardian and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 2.

Dr Kandiah is in demand as a speaker at both national and international conferences. He recently spoke to a full house at TEDxOxford on the topic "Can Hospitality Change the World?" Krish is a consultant offering both creativity and academic reflection to bring strategic change, culture shift and innovation. He has expertise in the overlap between faith and development, faith literacy and communication. Krish is an ambassador for the UK aid and development charity: Tearfund.

Reviews

[Robin Peake]

Chris is a Minister in our family of churches and I was pleased to get stuck into his first book, especially with prayer being a topic I wanted to read more about this year.

I found the examination of our convictions of who God is and how this relates to prayer helpful, but for me the book really picked up in pace and personal value in its second half.

Chapter 9 is a fantastic treatise for corporate prayer and Chapter 11 is really helpful in understanding the role of faith in prayer (it's not that we need a great faith, but faith in a great God). Plenty to take away and mull on in here and I suspect the small group resources to discuss and unpack it further would be really helpful.

[Mark Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely well written, and helpfully honest. For me, the reminder of right relationships with God and others stood out; I'm certain that anyone reading this would find a valuable nugget they might immediately apply to their own prayer life.

[Sage · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book! I really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. I think I have highlighted most of the book lol. This isn't a step by step approach on how to pray and doesn't give you ideas of how to fit prayer into your busy schedule. It is not a practical step by step guide instead it is more a book on the theology and beliefs of prayer but much easier to read! It helped me think more about my prayers, why I pray and what it accomplishes. It obviously is certainly written by Chris Band and therefore is his own beliefs based on the way he interprets scripture that being said I agreed with pretty much all that he said and the angle he took. If you are of the name it and claim it belief you may not be as in love with book as I was however in all things we need to discern for ourselves what is true and study the scriptures to see if they agree. It is good to listen to other opinions and thoughts. Great book and highly recommend it!

[Juanita · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was packed with really informative information. Some parts were a little bit harder to work through than others but it has so much in it. Would definitely recommend for anyone looking for a biblically based book on prayer.