Welcome back friends to the Ransom Park podcast, Craig McConnell, John Eldridge here in the second week of January 2016.

Kind of picking up a little bit on last week's theme, of anticipating good things.

We want to pull the curtains back

and let you into the world of Ransomed Heart a little bit

and what's going on here and the good things that are coming this year excited about a couple of things right out of the gate here in January

Stacy just released two devotionals, one for women and one for teenage girls.

Really great, I just saw another day, they're so pretty. One is called

Beautiful Now and it's a 90-day devotional journey for women and then

beautiful me which goes with Free to be me, that book that she wrote for

teenage girls.

And then February, we release Moving Mountains, which is a book that's been actually long in the works in the sense of,

I've been learning a lot about prayer over the last 10 years largely out of necessity.

The mother of invention or desperation might be the mother of invention. Anyway, 10 years or more, gosh 20, 30 years of learning about prayer and why some prayers work and some prayers don't and how to pray effectively.

So the book is called Moving Mountains comes out in February and we'll be doing some

podcasts on that but probably the big revelation there is that prayer is not just

asking God to do something and then waiting to see whether or not he chooses to do it.

Yeah.

One thinks it's so interesting about the timing on this. We get so many people who do a word search on the

internet for prayer that come to us and it kind of surprises me that there's that much interest that so many people want to know more about prayer.

Yeah, yeah. Something's going on. Something's going on.

It's the number one word that people search on the internet when they find

ransomed heart is prayer, praying, effective prayer, how to pray.

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