The 30-Day Prayer Challenge for Women

by Nicole O'Dell

Simple, Guided Encouragement Will Help Women Deepen Their Prayer Lives
 
Many Christians desire a deeper, consistent, more powerful prayer life but often struggle to know where to begin. The 30-Day Prayer Challenge is the perfect place to start.
 
This book, written for women of all ages, provides a month’s worth of specific, daily prayer challenges that will draw you closer to your Father God through meaningful conversation.
 
Each day includes a devotion, scripture, questions for consideration, and prayer starters for morning, noon, and night that touch on 30 unique topics important to her  
The 30-Day Prayer Challenge for Women will jump-start your prayer life, and is great for personal use or as a group!

183 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2018

About the author

Nicole O'Dell, Choose NOW Ministries
...battling peer pressure by tackling the tough issues

Youth-culture expert, Nicole O’Dell, resides in Paxton, Illinois, with her husband and six children—the youngest of which are toddler triplets. She’s the founder of Choose NOW Ministries, dedicated to battling peer pressure and guiding teens through tough issues while helping parents encourage good decisions, and host of Choose NOW Radio: Parent Talk and Teen Talk, where “It's all about choices!” On air, O’Dell covers peer pressure, dating, purity, drugs, alcohol, modesty, popularity, and anything else that comes up along the way.  Nicole writes and speaks to preteens, teenagers, and parents about how to prepare for life's tough choices.

 

She’s author of YA fiction, including the popular Scenarios for Girls interactive fiction, which offers readers alternate endings, allowing them to decide what the main character does, and the Diamond Estates Series based on her experiences as a resident at Teen Challenge as a teenager. Her non-fiction for teens includes Girl Talk, 2/1/12, which she wrote with her two daughters based on their popular advice column.

 

Nicole’s desire to bridge the gap between parents and teens is evident in her parenting non-fiction like the Hot Buttons , series aimed at helping parents handle tough issues with their tweens and teens before they pop up in real life. Watch for Hot Buttons books on subjects like dating, Internet activity, sexuality, prejudice, friendships, politics, and many more.

For more information on Nicole O’Dell or her books, or to schedule Nicole for a speaking event or interview, visit http://www.nicoleodell.com. Podcasts of Choose NOW Radio are available at http://www.chooseNOWradio.com.

Reviews

[Gemma]

A lovely little book, for women of all ages.
It shows just a little of your time each day can make a difference to the whole day or end a day well.
I enjoyed the 30 days alot, and really felt the difference.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The 30-Day Prayer Challenge for Women was a really nice devotional. Each day had a devotion, scripture verse, questions for thought, and finally prayer starters for morning/noon/night. I found that very nice and recommend this for any woman looking for a nice devotion for prayer.

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[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This small book by Nicole O’Dell is a quick read. A tiny introduction, and you’re right into the 30 days of prayer, and even those are very short and to the point. You get a small Bible verse, a couple of questions to ruminate over during your Bible study in the morning, and then three prayer prompts laid out in a morning, afternoon and evening layout.

I’d say this fairly bare bones book would be great for the challenge of 3 prayers a day for 30 days. I don’t think I’ve ever consistently prayed like this before, and I’m not sure I’d have done it in this fashion without the aid of this book and the author’s beautifully written prayers. My personal prayers are never as eloquent as hers. But just know going in that there's not a whole lot to it.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for sending me a copy of the book to review.

[Maria Elmvang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Prayer journals are always risky, because you never know ahead of time whether it is one that will speak to your soul or not. But I ended up really appreciating this 30-Day Prayer Challenge. Each daily reading included a scripture, a devotion, questions for introspection and prayers for morning, noon and night. The readings were very specific, which I enjoyed (often they tend to be very generic), but of course that also meant that some were more relevant or applicable than others - no matter, those days I just read two! :-)

I'd definitely recommend it for women who'd like to give their prayer life a bit of a boost, or who are just on the lookout for a new prayer journal or devotional. At 30 days it's a very manageable commitment.

[Patty Montoro · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful prayer journal. It gives you all everything . It gives a lesson , questions to ask yourself and prayer prompts. This perfect for daily prayer and reflection. I would totally recommend this daily journal.

[Johnnie High · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a must have. It is refreshing and motivating. You can read it and then start over. Very informative and very helpful. The days information is short and to the point.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book literally has 30 days of prayers. I found the book to be very easy/quick to read each morning.
it includes a daily bible verse, a few paragraphs about the bible verse, questions for you, and prayer prompts. I did forget to look at it completely a few days... I decided to just do that prayer the next day instead of squeezing in 2 in one day.

[Kriz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely Loved It. Great Tools For Every Day Living While Putting Our Lives In God's Hands And Using Prayer And His Word As The Way To A Succesful Personal Life.

"Pray that God will give you peace when you face tough choices".

Be anxious for nothing. . .let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. PhiliPPians 4: 6– 7 nkJv

[Ash Luna · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful prayer challenge for any women I loved it and am looking forward to recommending it to others.

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars
“This book, written for women of all ages, provides a month’s worth of specific, daily prayer challenges that will draw you closer to your Father God through meaningful conversation.”

This is a relatively good example of a short 30 day devotional. There is so much to like about this small prayer book. Each day has a verse, a short devotion and three different prayer segments. O’Dell has written a nice easy devotional which is easy to read in about 5 minutes each day. It would be good for in the car waiting for kids or in the morning before a woman starts her day.
The only negative aspect of this book is O’Dell uses the Message devotional Bible for some of her daily scripture verses instead of using an accurate translation. This was a huge red flag for me and made me question her discernment abilities. Any author who takes on the task of writing a Christian book must use a proper Bible for their scriptures.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. The views given are my own. #NetGalley #30DayPrayerChallengeForWomen #BarbourBooks

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good devotional. The author covers a lot of important topics that face women. Each day the author shares a scripture passage, along with thoughts and personal stories relating back to the passage.

What I really liked about the devotional is she gives the readers action items through questions or actions for the reader. Finally, each day ends with prayer prompts for morning, afternoon, and evening prayer times. Including examples of what one can pray.

The devotions are geared toward adult women that are married.

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

[Janine Brouillette · Rating 5 out of 5]

This devotional by Nicole O’Dell dedicated to women, provides 30 days of prayer, scripture, and follow-up questions to reflect on. It gives you daily prayers for morning, noon, and evening to sustain you throughout the day. This is a wonderful book to jumpstart your daily prayer habit and made me learn to stop 3 times a day to reflect on God’s word.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an eBook copy from NetGalley for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.
This book is a good devotional that can be used by any woman. It has a prayer, scripture verse, and question for reflection. There were a few days that I accidentally skipped and rather than try to complete them all the next day I continued from where I left off so it took me a little longer than 30 days to complete. I'm glad I was able to use this prayer challenge!

[Gia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley and Barbour Publishing, Inc. for the read of Nicole O’Dell’s, The 30-Day Prayer Challenge for Women.

I could have read this book in one sitting. Instead, I chose to delight in the inspiration from every one of the 30 days. I looked forward to waking up and reading the daily bible verse, the journaling that resonated with me – because they did, and the prompts and prayers were lovely. I found myself returning to certain ones throughout the day.

I highly recommend this beautiful book of daily prayer and contemplation. It will surely give you reason to stop for a few moments and fill up on the many graces from our Lord.

[Lotus · Rating 5 out of 5]

The 30-Day Prayer Challenge for Women is a wonderful devotional. Each devotional is titled by topic. Each contains a verse, devotional, questions, and prayer prompts. I always love devotionals with titles by topic so you can easily skip to what you may need for the day.

The questions for each devotional are organized into a section called "what's up?" I really like these questions because they can easily be used as journal prompts. I always suggest taking notes on your devotionals, but these questions help you go beyond the usual note taking. The questions themselves are very well-written. They are wonderful reflective questions that really help you take a good look at your own life and better apply what you learned in the devotional.

I also enjoyed the prayer prompts. I tend to ignore given prayers in devotionals because I believe prayer should be personal. While the book does give short examples to each prompt, it allows you to stay on topic and still have a very personal prayer time. I also want to note there are three prayer prompts per day (morning, afternoon, and evening). I find that it may be helpful to set alarms as reminders for prayer time, otherwise I miss the afternoon prayer and have to add it to my evening.

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. It's a wonderful devotional that helps you grow through prayer.

I received this book for free from netgalley in exchange for this honest review.