New Crossway Title Seeks to Minister to “People Under Pressure” Through Prayer

Maybe it’s a crime victim, someone going through a divorce, or an insomniac. A Senator or the parent of a child with an eating disorder. We all know someone who is under pressure. Most of us are under pressure ourselves.

In Prayers for People Under Pressure, you’ll find specific prayers for each of these situations and much more. Author Jonathan Aitken, once convicted of perjury, now tells the true story of his journey into prayer and invites readers to join him. What Aitken learned in the midst of political pressures, a public trial, divorce, and imprisonment, he now shares with others—namely, our desperate need for disciplined, daily prayer.

Aitken’s compelling story is impetus and fitting preface for these collected prayers, mined largely from the extensive prayer journals he kept during his trial, imprisonment, and re-introduction into society. Prayers for People Under Pressure is divided into five sections, which are based upon the helpful ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) approach to prayer. Aitken expands the traditional model to create the ACTORS method, which also contemplates “Our Relationship” with God. 

“I am extremely cautious about making suggestions to other people on how to organize their prayer life when I have so much to learn about my own,” writes Aitken in the introductory chapter. “That said, some paths of prayer signposted in these pages are well-tried and true. . . . Since direct communication with God in prayer is surely the truest path for a spiritual journey, my final prayer is that this small book may help others along that path and be for the greater glory of God.”

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