How Your Personality Affects the Way You Pray {Review of Praying with the Grain by Dr. Pablo Martinez}

 

My prayer life is lacking.  I try to pray longer and more sincerely and I find myself not praying at all because it seems difficult.

–Maybe I’m just lazy.

–Maybe I don’t love the Lord as much as I should.

–Maybe…

I recently read a book about prayer and it has changed my views.  The book discusses individual personalities.  Having an emotional personality myself, there are reasons why it’s hard for me to develop a prayer life. No, it’s not an excuse. Instead, I know why and how to improve my prayer life based on this personality of mine.

Read the book to find out which personality you mostly have and how to balance the four personalities to improve your prayer life.  Those four personalities are:

• Thinking
• Feeling
• Sensation
• Intuition

You’ll also learn how to get along with those who have opposing personalities.

This book definitely has a different take on prayer.   It was beneficial to read and I hope to improve my prayer life and relationship with others with the knowledge this book has provided me.

Scripture translation is mostly NIV.

About the Book

Why do so many struggle to pray?

Dr. Pablo Martinez, a medical doctor and psychotherapist, suggests that our basic personality type strongly affects both how we pray and what we pray about. Extroverts may struggle to develop a regular prayer life; introverts will be more likely to set time apart. Thinking types find prayer more satisfactory if accompanied by pen and paper; feeling types may long for intimacy with God; intuitive types tend to be innovators and visionaries, and may have a more mystical bent; sensation types often have a particular capacity for spontaneous prayer; and so on. The purpose of this book is to help us understand, and work with, our own spiritual path.

About the Author

Pablo Martinez was trained as a medical doctor and psychiatrist, and works at a Christian hospital in Barcelona. He has also developed a wide ministry as lecturer and counselor. He is a former Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Spanish Theological Seminary.

 

Disclosure:  I received a copy from Kregel Publications in exchange for my honest review.