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Do you feel like everything depends on you? That you must grind, hustle, and make things happen in order to have a flourishing life? If so, it’s no surprise that stress, anxiety, and burdens may be weighing you down in your pursuit to pull it all off on your own. And it’s no surprise that you probably struggle to pray—or to believe that prayer does much in your life. What if it were different? What if it wasn’t all on you? What if you could unburden yourself, slow down from the constant flurry of activity, and offload all the weight pressing down on you? What if God wanted to not only bear your burden, but change you and work on your behalf as you engage with him? What’s more—what if you could find fresh strength to fruitfully, freely, and fearlessly participate in Jesus’s global mission without all the pressure of producing the “results”? In Pour Out Your Heart, pastor and author Jeremy Linneman reveals a deeper, more vibrant spiritual life that offers you joy, strength, and intimacy with God through prayer. Where some thinkers treat prayer with a one-sided approach, Linneman approaches prayer as both communion with God (which sets our heart at rest) and an act of boldness that seeks God’s transformative power (which can heal the broken places in our lives, relationships, church, and world). Through this book, you will: • Rediscover your identity as a beloved child of the loving Father • Develop a life of inner joy and peace through contemplative, childlike prayer • Learn how to find fresh strength and faith for life’s difficulties through bold, intercessory prayer • Explore ancient prayer rhythms and resources that help you face life’s challenges • Experience what it’s like to “pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord” (Lam. 2:19) We were not created to do life in our own strength. We can learn to enjoy a life of joy, strength, and intimacy with God personally, along with a life that sees God’s hand at work circumstantially. The way there is simple: we pour out our hearts in the presence of our loving, all-powerful Father, and he pours back his love and power into us.