All You Really Need To Know About Prayer You Can Learn From The Poor

By Louise Perrotta

Book Overview

The less people possess of material things, the more they seem to possess of God, according to Louise Perrotta. Here you will meet Catholics, mainline Protestants, Evangelicals, and Pentecostals who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156955028X
• ISBN13: 9781569550281
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Charis/Servant Publications
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

This book changed my attitude and self pity at a low point of homelessness.

During a period of homelessness in '04, God drew my attention to this book on prayer at the Chetco library in Brookings Ore. I had been wallowing in self pity over the sad state of my crumbling life. No money, no living quarters, just me and my cat. This book seemed to jump off the library shelf and so I began to read about these fellow Christians in the poorest parts of the Caribbean. How they continued to pray and seek God in the most dire of circumstances. To say I felt ashamed of my self pity for my own problems is an understatement. God can use a book or anything he chooses to wake you up and turn you around. Please read it, perhaps it may affect you in a positive manner as it did me. Over 20 years later I still read it often!

Heart touching book

This book showed me how those in extreme poverty and with difficult diseases seem to have the most strong faith in the Lord. I couldn't put the book down. It is selling inexpensively, but it is worth so much more! There are black & white photos, and many thought provoking true stories of people & their trust in the Lord through many kinds of trials. It's selling so inexpensively, try it out! I'm donating my copy to our church library, so others can be moved into a deeper prayer relationship as I have been.

Learn from the Poor

This book contains a series of short interviews and biographies of religious workers and their interaction with the poor of the Caribbean. Food for the Poor, a nonprofit organization that serves the poor in the Caribbean, sponsored the project and the author. It is amazing to read that those with the least material goods, worst living conditions, and poor health conditions, can be the most faithful of Christians. They survive by their faith in Jesus and their interaction with him through Prayer. You will certainly be moved by these accounts. It would also make a great resource for a Bible study.