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Shameless Persistence: Lessons from a Modern Miracle
Do you sometimes feel as if no one’s listening to you when you pray? That you’re wasting your time? Or worse, that God is ignoring your prayers, while he’s answering everyone else’s?Maybe you don’t believe in prayer. After all, prayer means talking to someone you can’t see about things you can’t control. What’s the point?Whether you’re a longtime Christian who needs a shot of adrenaline to reenergize your prayer life or a skeptic who doubts whether prayer works, this book is for you. Here, you’ll read about people who confronted the same doubts and others who beat seemingly unbeatable odds with prayer, like the author.Best of all, you’ll learn what the Bible has to say.
105 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 9, 2019
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About the author
Sandra Bretting
11 books286 followersAuthor Sandra Bretting made the switch from writing traditional mysteries to writing inspirational historical fiction in 2024. Her first historical novel, called Unfit to Serve, revolves around the chaos caused by the U.S. military when it adopts a brand-new test from France called the IQ test during World War 1. Based on real events, the novel features a courageous school teacher who fights to help the immigrants who can't read the test and fail it by the thousands.
During a career that spans two decades, Bretting also wrote the Missy Dubois Mystery Series, which earned distinction as an Amazon national bestseller.
She graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and previously wrote for the Los Angeles Times and Houston Chronicle. You can get to know Bretting's books at www.sandrabretting.com.
During a career that spans two decades, Bretting also wrote the Missy Dubois Mystery Series, which earned distinction as an Amazon national bestseller.
She graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and previously wrote for the Los Angeles Times and Houston Chronicle. You can get to know Bretting's books at www.sandrabretting.com.
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November 27, 2019
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Adams PR Group. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
A large number of Americans believe in miracles and one of my own personal favorite ways of getting to know people better is to listen to them talk about stories of divine intervention in their lives, cases where something bad looked like it was certain and then for no logical reason a positive outcome came about from it. This particular book gives a look at the author's own personal experiences with a dangerous and potentially fatal (and obscure to boot) illness and the healing she found from it when she had turned to God in prayer in absence of other options. The author expresses her increased faith and a desire to use her experience as a way of helping to inspire other people, and while this is definitely a noble goal, I tend to wonder how much it is possible for the experiences of others to be a firm encouragement to our own faith. If even our own experiences are not always enough for us to come to an understanding of God's goodwill and positive plans for us, the written experiences of others will have even less of an influence on many people.
This book is a short one of about 100 pages and it is divided into two parts and various short and unnumbered chapters. The first part of the book takes up about a quarter of the space and it talks about the author's own story, beginning with a trip to the hospital and then finding her health going from bad to worse until she received a virtual death sentence from her doctors. After that the author transitions from telling her personal story to discussing how the story might relate to the reader. She talks about how our own experiences can be the source of a passionate prayer life as well as what prayer isn't and how to deal with the answers that God gives to prayers. There are also chapters about preparing our heart as well as preparing others for our prayers and a discussion of unseen miracles before the author closes with some endnotes and a discussion of some special prayers that one can make for special times.
Nevertheless, although I do not think that this sort of book is necessarily the most compelling for reading for everyone, I can very easily understand why it is that the author felt it necessary to write this book. When God works dramatically in our lives it is natural to want to tell other people about it. In former days this would have been the sort of story we would share over long hours during and after dinner while fellowshipping with brethren and socializing with friends, but in our age of frequent memoir-writing and greater isolation it is natural that this is the sort of experience that would motivate the author to want to write a book about it to help her make sense of the experience and to share it with people who would not be able to hear it from her. And this is certainly a book that I appreciated reading. It was easy for me at least to see why the writer was so passionate about expressing the lessons she learned from God healing her from progressive organ failure, and I can find it heartwarming and inspirational that a perfect stranger to me who has hardly any common acquaintances would wish to share her own personal story and what she drew from it.
A large number of Americans believe in miracles and one of my own personal favorite ways of getting to know people better is to listen to them talk about stories of divine intervention in their lives, cases where something bad looked like it was certain and then for no logical reason a positive outcome came about from it. This particular book gives a look at the author's own personal experiences with a dangerous and potentially fatal (and obscure to boot) illness and the healing she found from it when she had turned to God in prayer in absence of other options. The author expresses her increased faith and a desire to use her experience as a way of helping to inspire other people, and while this is definitely a noble goal, I tend to wonder how much it is possible for the experiences of others to be a firm encouragement to our own faith. If even our own experiences are not always enough for us to come to an understanding of God's goodwill and positive plans for us, the written experiences of others will have even less of an influence on many people.
This book is a short one of about 100 pages and it is divided into two parts and various short and unnumbered chapters. The first part of the book takes up about a quarter of the space and it talks about the author's own story, beginning with a trip to the hospital and then finding her health going from bad to worse until she received a virtual death sentence from her doctors. After that the author transitions from telling her personal story to discussing how the story might relate to the reader. She talks about how our own experiences can be the source of a passionate prayer life as well as what prayer isn't and how to deal with the answers that God gives to prayers. There are also chapters about preparing our heart as well as preparing others for our prayers and a discussion of unseen miracles before the author closes with some endnotes and a discussion of some special prayers that one can make for special times.
Nevertheless, although I do not think that this sort of book is necessarily the most compelling for reading for everyone, I can very easily understand why it is that the author felt it necessary to write this book. When God works dramatically in our lives it is natural to want to tell other people about it. In former days this would have been the sort of story we would share over long hours during and after dinner while fellowshipping with brethren and socializing with friends, but in our age of frequent memoir-writing and greater isolation it is natural that this is the sort of experience that would motivate the author to want to write a book about it to help her make sense of the experience and to share it with people who would not be able to hear it from her. And this is certainly a book that I appreciated reading. It was easy for me at least to see why the writer was so passionate about expressing the lessons she learned from God healing her from progressive organ failure, and I can find it heartwarming and inspirational that a perfect stranger to me who has hardly any common acquaintances would wish to share her own personal story and what she drew from it.
January 19, 2020
Shameless Persistence is a "quick read" written with Christians in mind, yet recommended to anyone, regardless of his/her religious affiliation.
The author shares a devastating, near death experience which enlightened her understanding and perspective. Using, the Bible, plus other individuals experiences and statements, she gives evidence to the importance of "Shameless Persistence" in offering prayer to deity
In this inspirational book, the author presents three thought questions and a place to write answers, so each individual can use this as his/her spiritual journal.
One will , surely, view prayer and supplication with deity in new, more effective ways.
This book retains the reader's interest all the way through and is not cluttered with unnecessary words.
This book was gifted me with no pressure, whatsoever, for a positive review. This is my honest review.
The author shares a devastating, near death experience which enlightened her understanding and perspective. Using, the Bible, plus other individuals experiences and statements, she gives evidence to the importance of "Shameless Persistence" in offering prayer to deity
In this inspirational book, the author presents three thought questions and a place to write answers, so each individual can use this as his/her spiritual journal.
One will , surely, view prayer and supplication with deity in new, more effective ways.
This book retains the reader's interest all the way through and is not cluttered with unnecessary words.
This book was gifted me with no pressure, whatsoever, for a positive review. This is my honest review.
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