Questionable Books are Everywhere

The College of Prayer (collegeofprayer.ca) is a ministry of prayer mobilization for five provinces in Canada. Among the books on prayer on their recommended reading list are some good books, but also some not so good books. These include...

• Possessing the Gates of the Enemy, Cindy Jacobs
• Taking our Cities for God, John Dawson
• Answering God, Eugene Peterson
• The Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship With God, James Houston
• Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, by Richard Foster
• Celebration of Disciple: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster
• The Transforming Power of Prayer, James Houston

Cindy Jacobs is, well...some say she is a false prophet who tampers with the Word of God. She is listed among the false prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) here. Also see:

When is a Prophet NO Profit?
Philip L. Powell
Is Cindy Jacobs Really A Prophet to the Nations?
www.intotruth.org

As for the John Dawson book, it's surprising that they would still recommend this teaching of spiritual mapping which fizzled out a few years ago. Here's a bit more about it from Let Us Reason:

Author John Dawson, the son of Joy is the International Director for Urban Ministries of YWAM has written Taking Our Cities for God: How to Break Spiritual Strongholds, 1989), and Defeating Territorial Spirits. He writes the “Battles against evil spiritual forces controlling our cities can be waged and won.” According to Fuller Theological Seminary's C. Peter Wagner, John Dawson's book Taking Our Cities for God: How to Break Spiritual Strongholds` is “the most important book on the subject ever written.” In this book he proposes concepts and views that are foreign to true Scriptural warfare (which we do not have the time to go into). Today, 12 years after the book was written, not one city anywhere in the world has been “taken for God” using these concepts (much less a nation). The fact that evil has increased should be noticed by everyone, as the Bible said it would. Yet this teaching is still being promoted. John Dawson has recently been named to head YWAM after Cunningham.
-http://www.letusreason.org/Curren29.htm

There's a quite a detailed review about the error in John Dawson's book at Deception in the Church here:

Book Review
"TAKING OUR CITIES FOR GOD"
by John Dawson, YWAM Publishing 1989
www.deceptioninthechurch.com

The rest of the books mentioned above are written by authors promoting the contemplative movement. See here:

Is the Author of 'The Message' a Contemplative Mystic?
morebooksandthings.blogspot.com

Who is Richard Foster?
apprising.org

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com

Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com

James Houston and The Psalms
foolsonly.blogspot.com

So why should it matter...like, who cares? Well, notice who partners with College of Prayer Canada...

*AlliancePray.ca (a source of information and resources to assist the prayer initiatives of the Alliance churches in Canada
*The Alliance Pray Team
http://cmalliance.ca/prayermobilizationp52.php
*The College of Prayer International
http://www.collegeofprayer.org/

And why does this all matter? It just shows that false teaching about spirituality and prayer abound, and the only source we can really trust is God's Word, no matter who says what. The main thing to remember is - test everything, examine everything, and warn others. And that's all.

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"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" 1 John 4:1.