New Book by Anita Estes: Armed for Prayer

Ready for 2025? Have New Year's Resolutions? Here's a book to challenge you to be a better prayer warrior.

Armed for Prayer: A Strategic Guide to Victory

 Are you searching for the keys that unlock prayers that transform both individuals and nations? Do you want to know God personally and understand the authority He has given you through His promises? Or perhaps you’re a battle-weary prayer warrior seeking freedom, refreshing, and healing. Then “Armed for Prayer: A Strategic Guide to Victory” by Anita Estes is precisely what you need. This comprehensive manual will guide you into the realm of powerful prayer, offering encouragement and assurance that God hears and answers spiritual prayers. Designed for both individual and group study, each chapter addresses key topics, such as knowing God intimately, understanding your identity in Christ, and grasping foundational biblical truths along with the Bible's promises. Explore the depths of healing prayer, the impact of trauma, prophecy, demonic strongholds, deliverance, and the weapons of spiritual warfare, including the armor of God. Each chapter provides detailed insights into effective prayer, concluding with examples of powerful prayers. Drawing from years of experience in spiritual warfare, Anita Estes has crafted an essential guide for unlocking prayers that move mountains.

Anita Estes is a dynamic speaker and author on many topics including: Victory in Every Season of Life, Divine Guidance, Prayer, Guidance for Parents and Teachers, Utilizing Art in the Curriculum and more. Her work appears in several compilations including God Allows U-Turns, A Cup of Comfort, Adam’s Media Press books, Deliver Me, as well as other publications. She is the author of When God Speaks, Transformed—Inspiring Stories of Freedom   Letters to God on a Prodigal Son and the devotional book, " I AM" Calling. Her newest book is a dynamic study on prayer and spiritual warfare: Armed for Prayer: A Strategic Guide to Victory. Her debut novel is The Dividing Stone, which is now available on audible.

Mission Mesquite is available!

My latest novel!
While Kate Lawrence 's parents served in Cote d'Ivoire as career missionaries. Kate's education came in a French boarding school and American University in Paris and Georgetown.  Now a Foreign Service Officer for the US State Department, she wants nothing to do with the missionary lifestyle. When she finally agrees to visit their new mission post Mission Mesquite, the rodeo church at the Mesquite Arena in Dallas, Kate meets Tyler Hawkins, attractive All American Cowboy who has since been crippled by a bull trampling. They have an instant connection, but Kate doesn't know that Tyler has just completed seminary and mission training and is poised to take over Mission Mesquite once her parents retire. How can Kate resolve the conflict between her and God and her heart? Will Tyler's past as a free-wheeling cowboy cut short his ministry? Mission Mesquite is a contemporary Christian romance.

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Back Surgery 'Metaphors in the Christian Life" Part 3

After coming home from the hospital after surgery, I felt good. I did things I never thought I’d be able to do after major surgery. When the stitches were removed, I felt great! However, the next morning I woke in a bloody pool of ooze from the wound, which had not healed. This emanation put me back in the hospital and diagnosed with a MRSA infection. A PICC line was inserted to get IV antibiotics while the wound continued to weep for six more weeks. Plus I had excruciating pain in my right leg!

Complications. My picture should be in the dictionary next to this word. Everyone who has any surgical procedure has signed the page that lists all the possible complications that may arise as a result of surgery, including death. Dwelling on all the complications is ridiculous at this point because you still need the surgery, otherwise you wouldn’t be there! Weeping wound and PICC line followed by over-sewing the wound were the highlights of this trip to the hospital.

I was sent home with IV antibiotics to be administered at home – the strongest available on the planet. Another MRI was required to see if the wound needed to be re-opened to cauterize something in the surgical area.

My third hospitalization took place over the 4^th of July weekend. Diagnosis: Acute kidney failure. This trip included an EEG to see if I’d had a brain emergency. I went home barely able to stand, get out of bed, walk, take care of basic functions. Not what I signed up for.

Then there was the day we called 911 twice: once because I was in and out of consciousness, later because my blood pressure was 220/110. The ambulance ride to the ER was a new experience!

So it’s two plus months from surgery. The problems I had prior to surgery appear to have been resolved. The wound has finally healed. I can be left alone during the day, so Ken can go to work. Tyler, our Jack Russell terrier, works hard at guarding me and inspecting the home health care workers and my friends who come to help. We even survived the appliance repairman’s visit and the plumber’s arrival last week.

So what biblical truth can apply to all this mayhem? Ken feels like Job, but we have good friends who have brought food, took me to doctor’s appointments, sat with me, and encouraged us. All have prayed for us, including online friends as well.

God knows where this journey will lead. First, I canceled my registration for ACFW conference. No way I could do the walking required in August. Second, I released my three classes I was to teach this fall for the community college of which I am an adjunct professor. Both these are of high importance, but practically I was not going to be physically able to do them, and that grieves me. However, my fall calendar has opened up. I wonder what God might have in store.

So I’ll claim Jeremiah:29:11,  “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” [NIV]