Dangerous Prayers: Fifty Powerful Prayers that changed the world from Thomas Nelson

I was intrigued by the title of this book, Dangerous Prayers: 50 Powerful Prayers that changed the World. I like the idea of learning about prayer from some of the world's spiritual giants through the ages.

There is a table of contents that starts out Dangerous Prayers with the name of each famous person included in the book. They are in a sort of alphabetical order by last name, which is helpful. Each person is shown with a short biography, a beautiful artistic painted picture of that person, and the featured famous prayer. Some of the famous people everyone will likely know: Billy Graham, Martin Luther King Jr., C. S. Lewis, and Charles Spurgeon to name a few. But other names are not as familiar to most of us: Jarena Lee, Lottie Moon, Sojourner Truth, and Dora Yu. However, all of the stories and the prayers are fascinating. Bibliography pages are included in the back for those that want to do more research on any of the people listed.

Dangerous Prayers is even nicer than I expected. It is truly a beautiful book that would make a nice gift for a special day--like baptism, confirmation, or a birthday. It has a presentation page in the front just for that. The pictures are nice artistic renditions. The book includes a ribbon marker to better mark the page to return to. Dangerous Prayers is just a gorgeous gift book with solid, basic information to remind readers that ordinary people can be used to pray prayers that God can use to do extraordinary things for Him.

I received this book from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review.

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