War Room {Book Review}
Where do you pray? For me, I like to spend a few minutes on my porch with a cup of coffee and my Bible, or maybe at the kitchen table. It’s quiet (usually) and I can reflect and spend much needed time to open my heart and spend time in the Word. But what about setting up a special area, designated for the sole purpose of prayer? That’s what the book called, War Room, is about.
Juggling motherhood and her job as a real-estate agent, Elizabeth Jordan wishes her husband could help more around the house. But Tony’s rising career as a pharmaceutical salesman demands more and more of his time. With a nice home in the suburbs and a lovely young daughter, they appear to have it all―yet they can’t seem to spend time together without fighting.
Hoping for a new listing, Elizabeth visits the home of Clara Williams, an elderly widow, and is both amused and uncomfortable when Clara starts asking pointed questions about her marriage and faith. But it’s Clara’s secret prayer room, with its walls covered in requests and answers, that has Elizabeth most intrigued . . . even if she’s not ready to take Clara’s suggestion that she create a prayer room of her own. As tensions at home escalate, though, Elizabeth begins to realize that her family is worth fighting for, and she can’t win this battle on her own. Stepping out in blind faith, putting her prayers for her family and their future in God’s hands, might be her only chance at regaining the life she was meant for.
I was lucky enough to see the movie by the same name and so I assumed I would enjoy the book. And I was right!
I loved how even though this book is about faith and Christians and prayer, it’s not trying to show how perfect and good all Christians are. It shows more about real life, how relationships can change for good or bad. We, as readers, are a witness to the marital problems between the character of Elizabeth and her husband. Things aren’t perfect between them…in fact, far from it!
But after a business meeting with the elderly Ms. Clara, she starts to become stronger in her own faith and begins to pray instead of complaining or waiting for her husband to make it better.
There’s plenty of humor to go along with the seriousness of the topic so it’s not dry and boring at all. It was an easy read as well, plus one I enjoyed and will gladly pass on to someone else. I think it also may inspire many of us to set up our own war rooms where we can be prayer warriors.
Be sure to pick up a copy of War Room today and see if the movie by the same name is playing in your local area!
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Carmen says
I too saw the movie first, but I am enjoying the book much more. I do have an area set up in our bedroom for prayer and study, but I keep my written prayers on the mirror bathroom. I take the two minutes while brushing my teeth to read them. They stay on my mind longer during the day and I don’t have to go find them in my journal.