Prayers for a Heart-Shaped Life

Prayers for a Heart-Shaped Life by Karen Moore is a joyous book about faith and love.
If you feel like you need a little extra love with an extra helping of spirituality and a path forward this is the book for you. At times our own well runs dry and this book, with over 200 prayers, will fill your well once more. This book is not meant to read in one sitting. It is more like a small daily dose would enrich your life and help you to become more prayerful. The focus of the prayers is to encourage you to live your life using your heart. Each prayer has a related scripture selection. Ms. Moore has a wonderful way of speaking to your heart. The book is well written and each ‘daily dose’ feels like the dust is being removed and your mind becomes clearer and closer to God.

I would like to thank Karen Moore, Barbour Publishing Inc., Shiloh Run Press and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

In "Prayers for a Heart-Shaped Life" Karen Moore speaks right to the heart. This inspiring book helps you to discover God's plan for your life, as you live each new day heart-first. Karen teaches you to pray from the deepest depths of your heart to God for your deepest needs and those of others. With God, you get a fresh new start each day. "Prayers for a Heart-Shaped Life" helps you to put prayer first as you begin your day. God guides you with His saving grace, offering you forgiveness and redemption. This book, an indispensable guide in your walk with Christ, strengthens your faith as you seek the priceless “peace that passes all understanding.” Can prayer help you to see the world with eternity's values in view? Can prayer inspire you to walk “heart first” through life? Can prayer transform love to become your only priority? 1 Corinthians 13:2 states: "If I knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would it do?" The Heart-Shaped Life series, with its awesome motto to live life “heart first", features "Prayers for a Heart-Shaped Life," with over 200 prayers to draw you closer to the heart of God, the author of Love Himself. Each heart-shaped prayer and selected Bible verse sets you on the road to the only life worth living - LOVE.

Karen Moore has written a book of prayers that will add to your daily time with God. Each prayer has a scripture with it and then reads like a prayer journal. It encourages the reader to spend more time with God and to keep your own prayer journal. The details in the journal are very heart-touching and lend themselves to further thought and study of the Scriptures. There is humor as well as honesty throughout this book of prayers, so that the reader is involved in the life of the author and compares oneself and one’s own life to hers. All in all, this book lends itself to having all of us take an honest look at our prayer life and our relationship with God.
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As the author, Karen Moore, states, “It’s always a good day to have a little chat with God.” And in this book of prayers she gives 200 short prayers that will enrich your spirit and encourage your walk with God. Each prayer is prefaced with a verse from the Scriptures and the prayer then relates to that scripture. Moore begins with prayers that remind the reader to wait expectantly for the Lord and seek His kindness and favor. There are prayers of praise for a beautiful day, of thanksgiving for His forgiveness for our foolishness, reminders to live wholeheartedly and as a messenger of hope to others. Other prayers speak to having a courageous heart, a humble heart, a noble and good heart, and an honest and hopeful heart. This book of prayers, perhaps to be given as a gift or used personally, is not a book to be read at one sitting but to be savored on a regular basis. As a concluding reminder of God’s faithfulness in hearing our prayers, a prayer for a heart shaped life written by Martin Luther is included. “All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.”
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley and was not required to write a review. The opinions are my own.