Overview

What if you could actually enjoy praying? Believers know praying is a commandment and not just a good idea but being told to pray doesn't automatically birth a love for prayer in anyone. We know we should pray, but precious few of us enjoy a healthy prayer life. If we manage to squeeze prayer time into our busy lives, we often end up feeling like our efforts are wasted and fruitless because we aren't doing it right. Author Shellie Rushing Tomlinson knows how it feels to be stuck in a hit-or-miss prayer life while longing for a deeper connection with God. Shellie helps believers move past this common struggle so they can enjoy the life-transforming gift of prayer. Don't Try to Pray Like Her: Fifteen Simple Habits to Enjoy a Realer, Richer Prayer Life is packed with Southern charm, humor, and fifteen prayer habits drawn from Shellie's own experience. They're each built around a short story and a practical prayer support that will help you learn to enjoy lingering in God's presence. Scripturally anchored and perfect for personal reading or small groups, Don't Try to Pray Like Her will reshape how you experience God in prayer, one real conversation at a time.

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As a detective, I've spent my career searching for the kinds of practical, evidence-based advice that help people thrive in their daily life and faith. Don't Try to Pray Like Her might sound like a book written with women in mind but make no mistake about it, Shellie Tomlinson has packed these pages with wisdom that men will find just as transformational. Shellie's candid stories and practical habits will help you draw near to Jesus with confidence, not by imitating others, but by discovering what authentic prayer is like in your own walk with God. Whether you're a husband, father, or just looking for a deeper relationship with God, this book is filled with the kind of evidence-based encouragement I depend on in my own faith journey. --J. Warner Wallace ""Author, Cold-Case Christianity"" You know God is answering prayer when this book arrives in your in-box the same day you asked Jesus to help you pray better. Shellie has captured the angst of the heart's desire to pray while giving us permission to do it in the unique way in which God made us. This is a freeing book on prayer while being told in the storytelling, Jesus-loving, and heart-connecting way that Shellie knows how to do so beautifully. --Denise Jones ""Author, Reclaiming Your Heart"" If you're longing to learn how to more intimately connect with God through prayer, then this resource is for you! Shellie Tomlinson is a fellow sojourner who is steps ahead of you in learning to enjoy God's presence through heartfelt intercession. Walking through these pages with Shellie feels like I'm having a wonderful conversation with a beloved friend who's been in my shoes. The engaging stories and practical applications are bathed in biblical truths with the potential to transform the way you draw near to God in prayer. In each chapter, I found many inspiring nuggets to ponder and apply. I was especially uplifted by this, my favorite quote: ""Real words equal humility, and humble humans encounter God."" --Rhonda Stoppe ""Host, Old Ladies Know Stuff podcast"" If you've ever panicked when asked to pray out loud, grown restless when someone prayed too long, wondered why your own prayers seemed to bounce off the ceiling, or marveled at the eloquence of someone else's prayers--this book is for you. Shellie shares fifteen honest stories with practical takeaways. Guaranteed, at least three or four will speak directly to your own prayer life. --Jay Payleitner ""Author, 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad"" Like the author, I once gazed at prayer champion church ladies, thinking, ""That will never be me."" What changed? I can't say, but Shellie can! She tracked her meander from ""Whoa, those prayer ladies are awesome aliens"" to fifteen ways to finding your way in prayer. --Dr. Naomi Cramer Overton, MBA ""Founder and CEO, Becoming"" Shellie has a deep, warm relationship with God that oozes through her writing. If you are looking for a guide to help you approach God in a way that is true to how He created you, this book is for you! --Laurie Short ""Author, 40 Verses to Ignite Your Faith"" This book will make you laugh and smile, but most of all, it will make you want to pray. Shellie Tomlinson writes like a friend. You can feel her hugs as you read, and you will be drawn into having a more meaningful conversation with God with every chapter. --Arlene Pellicane ""Author, Grandparenting Screen Kids""

If you're longing to learn how to more intimately connect with God through prayer, then this resource is for you! Shellie Tomlinson is a fellow sojourner who is steps ahead of you in learning to enjoy God's presence through heartfelt intercession. Walking through these pages with Shellie feels like I'm having a wonderful conversation with a beloved friend who's been in my shoes. The engaging stories and practical applications are bathed in biblical truths with the potential to transform the way you draw near to God in prayer. In each chapter, I found many inspiring nuggets to ponder and apply. I was especially uplifted by this, my favorite quote: ""Real words equal humility, and humble humans encounter God."" --Rhonda Stoppe ""Host, Old Ladies Know Stuff podcast"" If you've ever panicked when asked to pray out loud, grown restless when someone prayed too long, wondered why your own prayers seemed to bounce off the ceiling, or marveled at the eloquence of someone else's prayers--this book is for you. Shellie shares fifteen honest stories with practical takeaways. Guaranteed, at least three or four will speak directly to your own prayer life. --Jay Payleitner ""Author, 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad"" Like the author, I once gazed at prayer champion church ladies, thinking, ""That will never be me."" What changed? I can't say, but Shellie can! She tracked her meander from ""Whoa, those prayer ladies are awesome aliens"" to fifteen ways to finding your way in prayer. --Dr. Naomi Cramer Overton, MBA ""Founder and CEO, Becoming"" Shellie has a deep, warm relationship with God that oozes through her writing. If you are looking for a guide to help you approach God in a way that is true to how He created you, this book is for you! --Laurie Short ""Author, 40 Verses to Ignite Your Faith"" This book will make you laugh and smile, but most of all, it will make you want to pray. Shellie Tomlinson writes like a friend. You can feel her hugs as you read, and you will be drawn into having a more meaningful conversation with God with every chapter. --Arlene Pellicane ""Author, Grandparenting Screen Kids""

Author Information

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson is an award-winning multi-published author, speaker, and farmer's wife known for saying, ""Life can be hard when it's good, but it's always better when you're laughing."" Shellie excels at using humor and storytelling to unpack biblical truth aimed at helping others discover the lives Jesus died to give them. Jeff Foxworthy endorsed her award-winning humor books Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On and Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy! Shellie's Christian nonfiction works include Seizing the Good Life and Heart Wide Open. After more than a decade in radio, Shellie now hosts The Story Table podcast and cohosts the popular Rocking It Grand podcast with her friend, Chrys Howard, on the Christian Parenting network. Shellie and her husband, Phil, live and farm in Lake Providence, Louisiana. They have two grown children and six grandchildren.

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