soulful prayers for women: trusting god with matters of your heart

What burdens your heart? What keeps you up at night? What leaves you feeling hopeless and discouraged?

These are difficult questions, but confronting them is important for living a healthy, peaceful life. Unfortunately, many women struggle to discuss such issues-even with loved ones and church leaders.

When there's no one you can confide in, you can always turn to the Lord. Soulful Prayers for Women can help you unburden yourself through intimate conversations with God. Pastor Michele Teague-Humphrey offers sixty-six prayers for women to contemplate on behalf their children, their husbands, and themselves-prayers that address numerous issues that aren't often spoken of in church, including the following:

• Adultery
• Depression
• Alcoholism
• Suicide
• Divorce
• Abuse
• Abortion
• Unhappy marriage

It's not easy to be a woman. The people in your life expect so much from you every day, and it often feels impossible to live up to their standards. By meditating on the prayers in this book, you can share the burdens of womanhood with God and get one step closer to your best self.

Michele Teague-Humphrey has been the senior pastor of Imani United Church of Christ in Euclid, Ohio, for more than ten years. She graduated from the Ashland Theological Seminary with an MA in Christian ministry. She is also the founder of LEAH Ministry, a faith-based organization that empowers women.

Michele and her husband, Sylvester Humphrey, have a blended family of five adult children and five grandchildren.