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    Intimacy, Intercession and Increase: An adventure with Jesus to explore a life of prayer
    Intimacy, Intercession and Increase: An adventure with Jesus to explore a life of prayer
    Intimacy, Intercession and Increase: An adventure with Jesus to explore a life of prayer
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    Intimacy, Intercession and Increase: An adventure with Jesus to explore a life of prayer

    By Lyndal J Walker and Anamika Gurung

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    This book is a devotional aimed towards youth and young adults to help them understand and grow in a life of prayer. It can be used as an introduction to prayer for those who are new believers or a refresher for those who have been walking with the Lord for a longer period of time. The author draws upon personal experience and decades of work wi

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    PublisherYouth for Christ International
    Release dateJul 20, 2023
    ISBN9781736503911
    Intimacy, Intercession and Increase: An adventure with Jesus to explore a life of prayer
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    Lyndal J Walker

    Lyndal J Walker is the international prayer director for Youth for Christ International. She has had a passion for prayer ever since seeing the Transformations videos as a young adult, desiring to see transformation of whole communities through the gospel. For ten years she lived and worked in the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia, mainly with First Nations youth in a variety of capacities, including chaplaincy, teaching, house parenting, and prison ministry. In 2016, Lyndal completed her masters of education researching the perspectives on education of disengaged First Nations youth.She worked as the National Prayer Coordinator for Youth for Christ Australia (YFCA) for two and a half years before transitioning to the international role. Her journey with YFCA began in 2015 with a desire to see young people walking in their true identity in Christ and living a life of intimacy with Him. She believes young people can become lifelong disciples of Jesus, living in the freedom and power of the gospel and bringing the kingdom "on earth as it is in heaven."Lyndal travels the world to train and equip people in intimacy, intercession, and prayer evangelism, and she releases the prophetic to encourage the body of Christ to be all God created it to be.

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      Intimacy, Intercession and Increase - Lyndal J Walker

      Intimacy,

      Intercession,

      and Increase

      A 31-Day Adventure with Jesus to Explore a Life of Prayer

      LYNDAL J WALKER

      Copyright © 2023 by Lyndal J Walker

      Published by Youth for Christ International

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the author via the email address is j17devo@yfci.org.

      Illustrations: A. Gurung

      Copyediting and typesetting: Sally Hanan of Inksnatcher.com

      Cover design: Lauren Vilitati

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scriptures marked NASB are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version ®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Ordering Information: Special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, and others. For details, contact the author at j17devo@yfci.org.

      Intimacy, Intercession, and Increase: A 31-Day Adventure with Jesus to Explore a Life of Prayer/Lyndal J Walker

      ISBN: 978-1-7365039-0-4

      To Amanda … you know why.

      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      1. Intimacy, Intercession, and Increase

      Part 1: INTIMACY

      2. Knowing God

      3. Knowing God as Father: Jesus

      4. Knowing God as Father: Us

      5. Knowing Jesus as Friend

      6. Knowing the Holy Spirit

      7. A Two-Way Conversation

      8. Tuning into God's Voice

      9. Is That You, God?

      10. Are You a Trustworthy Friend?

      Part 2: INTERCESSION

      11. Intercession: a Get-To

      12. What's in the Power of a Name?

      13. First of All…

      14. Persistent Prayer

      15. Prayer of the Righteous

      16. You've Got to Have Faith

      17. Corporate Prayer: Agreement

      18. Do You Need to Say Amen?

      19. Prophetic Prayer

      20. A Heavenly Vision

      21. What about the Lord's Prayer?

      Part 3: INCREASE

      22. The Stone That Became a Mountain

      23. I Have the Power

      24. Prayer and Evangelism

      25. Praying for Healing

      26. Supernatural Insight

      27. Casting Out Demons

      28. The Tangible Presence of the Holy Spirit

      29. Fasting and Prayer

      30. What If My Prayer Doesn't Work?

      31. What Now?

      About the Author

      Foreword

      You are invited! Yes, you are invited to become a fellow traveler on a road trip. This journey will take you to new places, to exciting mountain peaks, to incredible views, to pristine valleys. You will not be the same at the end of this adventure!

      In the 1970s, I was in my teens and part of a wonderful Christian youth group. We would get together with young people from all across North America and have car rallies. These would be two- or three-hour races through a city or across the country with check-ins, things to find, and some tough spots. Timing was critical. It was a race. Such an event would never happen today for safety reasons, but back then, before seatbelts were mandatory and before airbags existed, we would race from point to point just trying to get through the rally as quickly as possible. In each car we would have a driver, a navigator who had a big paper map spread out on his or her lap, and possibly one or two riders in the back seat. It was lots of fun, good fellowship, and very dangerous! The whole goal was to get through it as quickly as possible to get to the finish line.

      This is not a car rally! The adventure Lyndal is inviting you on here is entirely different. I have personally taken this journey, each day of it. I can assure you that it is a great adventure and stretching, but the way to win is not with speed. You lose if you go fast. The way to win is to slow down and enjoy each leg of the journey.

      I am reminded of the soul-searching verse in Psalm 27:8 where the psalmist has heard the Lord say Come and talk with me. He responds, Lord, I am coming (NLT). How many times in my childhood did my mother ask me to do something to which I responded Coming! but then I continued with whatever I was doing? It used to drive my mother crazy, and I think my wife feels the same way sometimes!

      God beckons you on this journey because He wants to spend time with you. He wants to take you to new places. He loves you, and He wants your company. Get up and start! Don’t answer Lord, I'm coming and then stay where you are. God bless you on this journey, and stay safe!

      —Dave Brereton, International Director, YFCI

      Introduction

      This devotional has one aim—to encourage a greater life of prayer in the reader. It can be used as an introduction to prayer for those who are new believers or a refresher for those who have been walking with the Lord for a longer period of time, but the primary audience it's written for is youth and young adults who desire to grow in this area. I draw upon personal experience and decades of work with young people to explore this vital topic. It is not a theological treatise, nor an exegetical study, yet at times it will ask the reader to think deeply about certain issues. It doesn't exhaust the topic of prayer by any means, but it gives a taste for further discovery.

      The devotional is thirty-one days long so that it can be completed by reading one per day for a month. It is set out in three sections: intimacy (with God), intercession, and increase—with John 17 being a guiding passage. Within each day there are scriptures to read, thoughts to consider, reflections to ponder, and sometimes further discovery using online media.

      Interwoven throughout are real-life stories that give testimony to the work of God and the power of prayer in people’s lives. The desire is that these stories

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