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The 7 Great Prayers: For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings

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Imagine losing your job, having 3 children to raise, the bill collectors at your door, and finally losing your home. How do you cope? The book, The 7 Great Prayers , was written as a result of coping with just that situation. Paul & Tracey McManus experienced the disappointment, the fear, and the worry of dealing with a financial crisis when Paul lost his job. How did they cope? As the authors wrote, "It was better to focus on the good and what we had than to focus on what we had lost and were losing." By doing this, the book was written.

The 7 Great Prayers are ones that are simple yet powerful. The book also offers positive affirmations that you can use no matter what your situation. Paul & Tracey offer their own experience and provide insight into how they survived as a family while watching all they had worked for being taken away. As the authors wrote, "We're not preachers; we're just regular people."

We all experience challenging and difficult times in our lives. This book, The 7 Great Prayers, is one that provides suggestions to help you get through those times. It will focus your thoughts and provide inspiration. I would recommend the book not only to anyone going through difficult times, but for everyone

But these 7 pretty much capture a cool route to energizing your faith (or maybe finding it again) when the world is tumbling down or really really troubling. Good things here for kids and young people too. I can guess some folks will say this is too simple but I like their idea that connecting with God is easy, simple natural. Appealing heart-felt book.

Every day I counsel people who are living with cancerin my position with Cancer Recovery Foundation (www.cancerrecovery.org). Their stories are heart-wrenching, their circumstances are devastating, their lives are turned upside down. I should know. My wife learned that she had cancer in 2004. We understand the harsh aftermath.

The fact is too many live in desperate fragility as they undergo treatment and live with a dread of cancer for the rest of their lives. Even when people are in remission or have been told they are "cured", in the backs of so many of their minds is the fear that cancer could return.

What I have learned and relearned is that when you stand on the threshold between life and death, as so many people living with cancer do, you need a source of power far greater than your own. For so many, prayer is that power. Prayer helps us to gain a different perspective. It enables us to connect beyond ourselves and our immediate concerns. It works to begin to ease our minds and it calms our hearts. Prayer is a source of strength and a gift of peace.

The 7 Great Prayers helps us to understand the power of prayer is a greater and deeper way. It helps the reader to focus on its affects and its meaning. For those living with cancer this book provides a way to create a new state of mind in the midst of terror, a state of calm, reassurance and hope. But I also know that The 7 Great Prayers will help anyone, whether living with a life-threatening disease or not, to find solace and support for all of life's challenges and cares.

This book is awesome. They are not trying to convert you or sell any products. The 7 Great prayers are so simple and straightforward. Its wonderful. It did help me change my way of thinking. Its not easy to make a shift in one's attitude and way of thinking but the Challenge is a great 1st step. I actually sent out cards this year with a copy of the 7 Great Prayers because I was so moved by the words, feelings and stories behind its creation. I absolutely recommend it.

This is the one of the best book I have ever read. I bougth three books, one for me, one for my sister and one for my friend. Thanks to my daughter I was introduce to this book. When I took my daughter, Bryanna to the Library and she was passing by she was passing by a shelf with new realized books. She picked up with out reading and tells me take the book. I look at the book and I said great choice. I am so much hooked with book so much that I having renewed this book from the libarary seven times. I had made some of pages copied for my co works because they wanted to do the 21 days prayers. I had my own copy of this book. I going to buy more copies of this book because "The 7 great prayers" is a good book to give gifts. Thank you for writing this book.

This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of learning to pray. While learning much about why we pray it gives you concise information on
how to pray. It gets you excited about how to build upon your pray life in a short span of time. It's a book you can read quickly if you wish, but
you'll want to read it a couple of times. Awesome!!!

Wow!!!!!! An inspiring book, the true story of a family in hard times, just like now, getting closer together and using their faith to overcome some really bad stuff that happened to them. I found the prayers the family created to help 'em get through their hard times not only beautiful but also useful for my own situations. I especially like The Third Great Prayer, "God, You are within me", and The Fifth one, "God, I see You everywhere." You will looooove this book!

In a lot of ways this book is very positive and uplifting. For someone with no background in affirmative prayer this is helpful in getting started. Some of the main ideas they talk about that have been talked out many times before are:

1. Gratitude and how being grateful for what you have will help you to attract more great things into your life
2. Repeating affirmations in a positive present manner helps to get them into your subconscious and attract it into your life
3. The "secret"- you become what you think about most
4. Have faith and believe that it is going to happen
5. Blessing people around you
This book is unique in that it's pretty obvious that the authors are conservative Christians but they are not the typical Bible belt believers in an angry God. They explain that this idea of an angry man watching over us from heaven is something we are taught from childhood, but we need to move past that and realize that God is in everyone and everything. In general, I think the prayers are effective and it would be great if everyone had a relationship with God/Spirit as this book recommends. You can tell that the authors are Christian and they quote Bible verses and talk about Jesus, but this book isn't only for Christians and they explain that. Still, it was a little more Christianity oriented than I would have preferred.

The main problem I had with the book is that they don't explain very well exactly how to implement the prayers. He explains that since the prayers are short, you should say them all at least 10 times a day throughout the day. But then in the 21 day journal, only one prayer is there. So does that mean only one prayer needs to be written every day? I was also confused about what was supposed to be said. Are you supposed to repeat the same affirmations for 21 days or just say any affirmations? Are you supposed to just say anything that comes to mind, throughout the day? The book didn't explain things very well, and yet they repeated the same concepts over and over in every chapter. For going on and on and on, it was pretty poorly written.

Although I'm glad this book may help some people, I'm not convinced that praying in this way is any better than doing daily affirmations and praying in your own way, and implementing gratitude and other positive thinking into your life.

Prayer is a simple and powerful way to improve one's life. "The 7 Great Prayers For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings" is a guide to improving one's life through simple daily prayers that will do much for one's spirit. Covering everything from money troubles to medical problems, rough relationships, and just finding a valuable thing to live for, authors Paul & Tracey McManus hope to change the way their readers live for the better. "The 7 Great Prayers" is a fine choice for many a Christian reader.

When Connecticut residents Paul & Tracey McManus took a financial dive after the 2000 dot-com bust, they caught themselves mid-tumble, grabbed onto a branch, and thought of all that they had not lost. Their family. Their love for each other. Their health. Their ability to believe that life here and now is beautiful.

Building on this abundance--counting their blessings and embracing the richness of their radically changed lives--the McManus family found themselves helping themselves and others and rebuilding their lives.

Their inspiring story and the practical steps each of us can take to live abundant, rewarding lives this very moment is avaiable in their new book The Seven Great Prayers, for a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings.

Their book, they say, is for people of any faith. Define God as you will or do and go from there.

As a self-published book the popularity of which spread by word of mouth, The Seven Great Prayers traveled to 163 countries to persons of various faiths.

First and last, the book is about accepting the beauty and possibility of life and accepting that each of us has the potential to shape our world as much as our world shapes us. The key is to be positive, affirmative, proactive.

The book includes a 21-day program that the McManuses say will transform the prayers from words on a page to habits of thought that will enrich our lives with countless blessings.