Life has a tendency to knock our confidence in prayer. In the face of persistent difficulties, our prayer-fueled hopes can be overwhelmed by such despair that we end up "on our knees"--not so much in prayer, as in defeat.

In this honest and engaging book, Chris Band discusses the issues that we may have about prayer but were perhaps afraid to ask: Is prayer wasted effort? Is God less involved in the world than we might wish? Is his will going to be done anyway, whether or not we pray?

We discover that our prayers, far from being squandered by God, are powerfully and consistently used...