I bought this book to prepare for holding prayer workshops in my own city. I found it full of encouragement, surprising insights, and tips on how to organize. Having some idea about what to expect was also helpful.

My only issue with the The Power of a City at Prayer is that it is poorly organized. Sometimes it's a descriptive narrative of New York City's experience, sometimes a devotional study on biblical precedents, and sometimes a "how to..." book. Unfortunately, all of those are found in each section.

I've had this book on my shelf for a long time and when I saw that it was about New York City I almost didn't read it. But I am glad I did. It is a very good and well written book. Even though it is from 2002, it is still relevant to today. I hope this amount of prayer is still going on there and I wish we had this kind of prayer happening in our area. The only thing I somewhat disagreed with is saying that a prayer meeting needs to have 20 to 30 minutes of worship, though I did appreciate them saying that singing is not the only way to worship God, but one way. I do agree that worship does need to be part of a time of prayer, but in my experience, the prayer meetings I've been to is often more singing than prayer and the songs are not necessarily worship songs or songs directed to God. So often "worship" leaders and teams are just musicians and singers who don't always understand that worship is more than that. Many church prayer meetings also only include prayers for the church and not for the lost or the things happening in the world so I appreciated that this book encourages prayer meetings to be both internally and externally focused.