Just Ask

Rebecca McLaughlin

This book is for people like me: prayer weaklings. We’ve all heard about prayer warriors. Perhaps we even know a few. But it’s the prayer weaklings that need help, and this book bent my wobbly knees and helped me cry out to my Father. I hope it helps you too.

Matt Carter

Of all the spiritual disciplines, prayer is often the most neglected. Yet when you look at the Scripture page after page and verse after verse exhorts us to seek the face of God through prayer! What are we missing? What has gone wrong? In this book, J.D. Greear not only provides the answers but gives us a powerful and beautiful path forward to what has become one of the most neglected but desperately needed aspects of our walks with Christ.

“Best book I have read on prayer”

Honest and helpful book that reminds you how good it is to pray and bring things to our Heavenly Father.

“Accessible, Comprehensive, Encouraging”

There have been many wonderful books written on prayer, but there was certainly room for JD's much-needed "Just Ask," especially in our current cultural setting. This book doesn't cut any theological corners or avoid hard questions, yet it's still written in a fast-paced engaging style that is perfect for believers at any level, and would be particularly helpful in a small-group setting. My own faith and prayer life were challenged, and it's always refreshing to be reminded that, yes, prayer really does matter and change my life.

“Practical, Biblical Advice for Prayer”

This book is full of practical, Biblical advice for improving the average Christian’s prayer life. It’s split into 2 parts - Why We Don’t Pray and How to Pray. I appreciated the second half more than the first where he walks you through The Lord’s Prayer. Overall the book was good, but I did get bored with it and had to push myself to finish it. I do think this book would be better suited for new believers and even teenagers, though, because he does give practical advice that is backed by Scripture.

“Well worth reading for your prayer life”

I found “Just Ask” totally relevant, clear, challenging and answered many questions on prayer that I’ve been looking at over the past year. I heartily recommend this book

“Highly recommended”

I have read it twice and I have been moved more than words can describe.

“Devotional, Practical, and Powerful”

Are you looking for more power in your prayer life? In Just Ask, J. D. Greear shares the joy of confident, bold, patient, relentless, shameless, dependent, grateful, powerful, expectant prayer.

Why Don’t We Pray?

In just over 150 pages, Greear gives a defense of prayer as well as a practical guide on how to make your prayers more meaningful. In Part1, Why Don’t We Pray, Greear bluntly states that we don’t pray because we don’t think it will do any good. Using Scripture, he teaches us to pray desperately, boldly, and persistently.

Greear goes on to give five biblical reasons why God may choose not to answer a prayer in the way we wish he would. Interestingly, Greear says that we should not ask that God would “magically” save everyone in Afghanistan. Our prayers are connected to missions and giving and going. Greear encourages us to remember that God’s purposes are unchanging, God’s plans are unfolding, and our prayers are instrumental.

Devotional, Practical, and Powerful

This book is devotional, practical, and powerful. Whether you are a new Christian learning how to pray or a mature believer looking to reinvigorate your prayer life, this book will be a blessing. The time to pray is now. Our Father in heaven hears, and his name will be hallowed.

I received a media copy of Just Ask and this is my honest review.