Review: An Insider's Guide to Praying for the World

            In considering a help for our people in praying for the world, I came across An Insider’s Guide to Praying for the World, by Brian C. Stiller.  As of 2016, when this book was published, Brian C. Stiller was the Global Ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.

            The book has fifty-two chapters making it a book one can pray through in a year – giving one week to a country (most of the readings are for a country – a few are for a person or a ministry) – or, you could pray through it in fifty-two days, as I did.

            Each reading has a small map of the country, statistics regarding the country – including location, population, and religions.  Then – and this is what makes this book unique, Stiller writes about his time in the country and what he experienced.  Each reading ends with a Scripture, items to pray for, and a prayer to pray.  The book ends with a short prayer journal section.

            We as Americans – and I speak as one and as one who know some – tend to forget the rest of the world exists, except in the thirty-second blips on the news.  We have brothers and sisters in other countries who need our prayers – who are praying for us – and as one body, we ought to have some knowledge of them and be in prayer for them.  There are numerous books and organizations that can help us do this.  This book is one of them.

            For the sake of having someone who has been where he is asking us to pray and tells stories about the real people and knows their needs – this is a book worth getting for your whole congregation as we did.

            As a book that “only” addresses where Stiller has been, it doesn’t address every country in the world.  But it is a great place to start.

            [This review appears on my blog, my YouTube channel, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.com.]