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.

Where do ideas come from?

Another question about writing I am asked is "How do you get ideas?" The simple answer is several ways.
1) Sometimes the story plays like a film. I need to write as fast as the film plays on those days. Those are the days that I buy legal pads at Office Max or spend hours at the computer writing down the story. These days are fun and fascinating. In fact, the characters take over, the dialogue is surprising, and the story goes in a different direction than I ever imagined.
2) Other days, the ideas are all mine. I wake up with an idea and flesh it out to see where it goes! Those days writing is fun but more like work.
3) Then there are the days when the ideas are half-baked, rare, and hard to find. Those days I may find an idea in the newspaper, on the Internet, or a magazine. I enjoy people watching and am cursed with teacher-hearing (hearing every conversation in the room!). My daily Bible study may also generate writing ideas for Bible studies.
Regardless of where an idea originates, writing is a guilty pleasure and yet still resembles work. My biggest challenge is to make me sit down and write.

Waiting to Publish Gold Earrings

So I'm in the waiting time. I signed a contract to publish Gold Earrings with Tate Publishing. The book is scheduled to enter production in November (a little over a week away!).

Friends have asked me a zillion well-intentioned questions. Unfortunately many of my answers have been "I don't know".

1. When will your book be out? (In the next 6 months, I think.)
2. Can I get it on ebook? (Yes, I think so.)
3. How can you remember all that stuff to write a novel? (Sometimes I have to re-read it to remember key plot or character elements)
4. Where did you get your ideas for a book? (Gold Earrings was a short story that I wrote for a high school composition class that I expanded one summer in the middle of grad school.)
5. How do you know what to write? (Well, I write what the characters say and do in my head. It's somewhat like writing down the elements of a movie as you watch it.)
6. How can you write that much? (Good question!)

So anyway, I find myself in "publishing purgatory" waiting for the next big step! Keep praying and watching for my Christian historical romance novel, Gold Earrings, to arrive at http://www.amazon.com/ and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ .

In the meantime I am marketing my second novel, A Time to Choose, a Civil War Christian historical romance to the mainline publishers. I'm still writing for www.AssociatedContent.com and www.Suite101.com .

Spring has sprung and so have I!

So, I have finished 2 of my Christian historical fiction novels: Gold Earrings and A Time to Choose. No publisher interest yet.

I'm also writing a teacher/education professional book Paperfolding 101: Creating Graphic Organizers from Regular Paper. I'm just starting to market it to the teacher-made publishers.

Today I signed up on Associated Content in hopes of writing something that actually makes money.

See me on Ravelry as dktatum! Knitting has become my favorite hobby. Beading, reading, and cross-stitch are in the back seat.

Fibromyalgia - My daily unknown. Will I feel well or achey? Will I drag around tired and/or depressed? This is a big reason I "retired" from teaching. It's hard to be consistent and available when you don't know what each day will bring. Cymbalta has helped a lot. I'm back on Celebrex, too. Still use Amitriptylin and Gabapentin at night to get a deeper sleep. Still, each day is a question mark. I can plan to do things; I just don't know how I will feel doing them.