The Power of a Praying Woman

The Power of a Praying Woman

2014 • 258 pages

Short chapters were easy to read, and some packed a lot of insight into a few paragraphs. Others oversimplified complex issues. Few things have ever made me angrier than reading her suggestion that a woman was murdered by her abusive husband because she had failed to pray enough. Also troubled by descriptions of anxiety and depression as things that WILL disappear after a single prayer of faith. Literally Jesus Himself told people that suffering or a lack of healing is not punishment for anything a person or their family did wrong. God can and will do amazing things, and His failure to do it on MY timeline is not evidence against Him or of weakness of my own faith. Two stars for those chapters that were reminders of underappreciated character qualities Christian women should seek to cultivate.

May 12, 2024