The 15-Minute Prayer Solution
How One Percent of Your Day Can Transform Your Life
by Gary Jansen
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Pub Date Dec 01 2015 | Archive Date Feb 28 2017
Description
What might happen if you gave just ONE PERCENT of your day to God?
I don’t have time to pray. I don’t know how to pray. I don’t know what to pray for. Perhaps you identify with one or all of these statements; most people do. But with Gary Jansen’s The 15-Minute Prayer Solution, anyone can learn to turn those “I don’t” statements into “I do” declarations— and be transformed in the process.
Drawing on spiritual practices from the Christian tradition throughout the centuries, Jansen offers numerous and wide-ranging prayer exercises that can be completed in less than fifteen minutes. The Jesus Prayer, lectio divina, the Examen, imaginative prayer, and many more ways to joyfully encounter the Living God are explained. Deeply personal stories, thought provoking modern-day parables, and even humorous anecdotes bring spiritual ideas down to earth, revealing the practical side of prayer.
And, as Jansen himself discovered, if you’re willing to take just fifteen minutes a day to pray, you may soon find that the entirety of your life has become a prayer, a relentless desire to place God at the center of everything.
Now in paperback: Gary Jansen's bestselling Exercising Your Soul retitled, repackaged and revised!
I don’t have time to pray. I don’t know how to pray. I don’t know what to pray for. Perhaps you identify with one or all of these statements; most people do. But with Gary Jansen’s The 15-Minute Prayer Solution, anyone can learn to turn those “I don’t” statements into “I do” declarations— and be transformed in the process.
Drawing on spiritual practices from the Christian tradition throughout the centuries, Jansen offers numerous and wide-ranging prayer exercises that can be completed in less than fifteen minutes. The Jesus Prayer, lectio divina, the Examen, imaginative prayer, and many more ways to joyfully encounter the Living God are explained. Deeply personal stories, thought provoking modern-day parables, and even humorous anecdotes bring spiritual ideas down to earth, revealing the practical side of prayer.
And, as Jansen himself discovered, if you’re willing to take just fifteen minutes a day to pray, you may soon find that the entirety of your life has become a prayer, a relentless desire to place God at the center of everything.
Now in paperback: Gary Jansen's bestselling Exercising Your Soul retitled, repackaged and revised!
Advance Praise
"Many people know about God, but few have actually encountered him. In this much-needed book, Gary Jansen helps us take our faith from a dry intellectual exercise to a powerful personal encounter."– Jennifer Fulwiler, radio host and author of Something Other than God
"Think you don't have time to pray? You'll reconsider after reading this gentle but persuasive invitation to a Spirit-led life. In The Fifteen-Minute Prayer Solution Gary Jansen blends evocative imagery, intimate personal stories and concrete suggestions to help even weary seekers rediscover the joy of finding God in all things."
– Colleen Carroll Campbell, author of My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
"Gary Jansen has done it again! This book is must reading for anyone who wants to understand and experience the miraculous power of prayer. Read it and transform your life from head to soul."
– Anthony DeStefano, author of Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To
“Gary Jansen’s The 15-Minute Prayer Solution is a book that fills a real need. This book takes people where they are in the spiritual life—busy, overloaded, and feeling empty—and teaches them how to pray in the midst of a revolving-door world. Jansen takes the best of the tradition and shows people how to make it real today. To understand the full fruit of this very modern and very traditional primer on prayer, this book ought to be discussed with others as well as read alone.”
– Joan Chittister, O.S.B., author of Between the Dark and the Daylight
"The 15-Minute Prayer Solution is a sacred pause amidst our busy everyday lives, drawing us closer to God's illuminating love and warm embrace."
– John Schlimm, award-winning author of Five Years in Heaven
"[A] well-done spiritual workbook...enlightening and useful."
- Publishers Weekly
"Prayer is not just for the saints, but for you. Gary Jansen's beautiful book is filled with simple, how-to advice on jump-starting your relationship with God. Using insights from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, Jansen offers straight-forward advice on how to begin, or deepen, your relationship with the One who loved us into being."
- James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
"Gary Jansen's powerful book will send you into a spiritual awakening. Start reading The Fifteen-Minute Prayer Solution and you will truly desire to love others in a new way. He not only writes a beautiful work, but more importantly, he lives the message."
- Justin Fatica, author of Hard as Nails and Win it All
"Gary Jansen has accomplished what no other spiritual author before him has: explained the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola in language I understand! He educates, entertains, and inspires with his charming stories and simple prose." - Therese Borchard, author of Beyond Blue
"I love this book. Gary Jansen has an endearing, attention-deficit quality that lets him deliver big lessons not only painlessly, but humorously. He goes deep, and takes us readers deep, without even a whiff of pious unction. For Jansen, a tattooed foot on the subway is the start of a mystical flight. By the end of the story, we know that these everyday distractions should be graces for us as well." - Mike Aquilina, author of Angels of God and Executive Vice-President, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
"Whether you are a veteran or a novice in prayer, this jewel of a book holds inspiration for us all."
- Alexander J. Shaia, PhD, author of The Hidden Power of the Gospels: Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey
Gary Jansen offers us a simple and powerful truth: Give God fifteen minutes each day, and you will begin to experience God in every moment. With compassion, wisdom, humility, and practical simplicity, Gary Jansen shows that by making a small space in your life each day for prayer and contemplation, your entire life will become filled with the presence of God. Read The 15 minute Prayer Solution and you will learn how to experience a deep and fulfilling relationship with the Divine Beloved.
- Michael A. Singer, New York Times bestselling author of The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment
“Brilliant! Whether you are a beginning or a veteran of the spiritual life I think you will find Gary Jansen's approach immensely practical."
– Matthew Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Rhythm of Life
"Think you don't have time to pray? You'll reconsider after reading this gentle but persuasive invitation to a Spirit-led life. In The Fifteen-Minute Prayer Solution Gary Jansen blends evocative imagery, intimate personal stories and concrete suggestions to help even weary seekers rediscover the joy of finding God in all things."
– Colleen Carroll Campbell, author of My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir
"Gary Jansen has done it again! This book is must reading for anyone who wants to understand and experience the miraculous power of prayer. Read it and transform your life from head to soul."
– Anthony DeStefano, author of Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To
“Gary Jansen’s The 15-Minute Prayer Solution is a book that fills a real need. This book takes people where they are in the spiritual life—busy, overloaded, and feeling empty—and teaches them how to pray in the midst of a revolving-door world. Jansen takes the best of the tradition and shows people how to make it real today. To understand the full fruit of this very modern and very traditional primer on prayer, this book ought to be discussed with others as well as read alone.”
– Joan Chittister, O.S.B., author of Between the Dark and the Daylight
"The 15-Minute Prayer Solution is a sacred pause amidst our busy everyday lives, drawing us closer to God's illuminating love and warm embrace."
– John Schlimm, award-winning author of Five Years in Heaven
"[A] well-done spiritual workbook...enlightening and useful."
- Publishers Weekly
"Prayer is not just for the saints, but for you. Gary Jansen's beautiful book is filled with simple, how-to advice on jump-starting your relationship with God. Using insights from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, Jansen offers straight-forward advice on how to begin, or deepen, your relationship with the One who loved us into being."
- James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
"Gary Jansen's powerful book will send you into a spiritual awakening. Start reading The Fifteen-Minute Prayer Solution and you will truly desire to love others in a new way. He not only writes a beautiful work, but more importantly, he lives the message."
- Justin Fatica, author of Hard as Nails and Win it All
"Gary Jansen has accomplished what no other spiritual author before him has: explained the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola in language I understand! He educates, entertains, and inspires with his charming stories and simple prose." - Therese Borchard, author of Beyond Blue
"I love this book. Gary Jansen has an endearing, attention-deficit quality that lets him deliver big lessons not only painlessly, but humorously. He goes deep, and takes us readers deep, without even a whiff of pious unction. For Jansen, a tattooed foot on the subway is the start of a mystical flight. By the end of the story, we know that these everyday distractions should be graces for us as well." - Mike Aquilina, author of Angels of God and Executive Vice-President, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
"Whether you are a veteran or a novice in prayer, this jewel of a book holds inspiration for us all."
- Alexander J. Shaia, PhD, author of The Hidden Power of the Gospels: Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey
Gary Jansen offers us a simple and powerful truth: Give God fifteen minutes each day, and you will begin to experience God in every moment. With compassion, wisdom, humility, and practical simplicity, Gary Jansen shows that by making a small space in your life each day for prayer and contemplation, your entire life will become filled with the presence of God. Read The 15 minute Prayer Solution and you will learn how to experience a deep and fulfilling relationship with the Divine Beloved.
- Michael A. Singer, New York Times bestselling author of The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment
“Brilliant! Whether you are a beginning or a veteran of the spiritual life I think you will find Gary Jansen's approach immensely practical."
– Matthew Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Rhythm of Life
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780829444070 |
| PRICE | $12.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Educator 55283
I good book on learning how to be in prayer daily with the Lord. Most of the book is applicable to all Christians, keeping in mind that a few prayers are specific to catholicism.
Dawn-Tracy B, Reviewer
This book was one that I wouldn't normally reach for but having experienced the power of prayer recently in my life I wanted to learn more about how prayer could fit in with life.
I discovered that prayer needn't be over the top and deeply religious, but prayer is a communication between you and God. It's a private communion about all things in your life whether there are things troubling you that you want to talk to God about, or whether you want to thank God for the good in your life.
Prayer is something that CAN fit into your life and no one else apart from You and God need know about it.
For me it's provided a lot of comfort and I know pray more regularly than I ever have done before.
Tracy S, Bookseller
Very thought-provoking and great place to start your prayer journey
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