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Asking Father and Father Calling
Fathers are important in our lives. And God our heavenly and eternal Father is the most important father of all. He existed before the world was and knew us before we were born. And He wishes to speak to us daily, hourly, momentarily, only we are often too busy to listen.
The companion books “Asking Father” and “Father Calling” published by Harvey Christian Publishers encourage children to treat God, though unseen, as their own precious father.

In the first, E. F. & L. Harvey relate true stories of how God listened to children when they talked to Him–it may have been to ask for something; it may have been for protection in a dangerous situation; it could have been to show them how to open their hearts to His love, to beg His forgiveness for themselves or for someone very dear to them. Whatever the cause, they asked and He answered, not always in the way they expected, but there was always an answer nevertheless, even, as in the case of young Amy Carmichael, the answer was a gentle but firm, “No!”
“Father Calling,” on the other hand, tells of how we not only speak to God but that He speaks to us. It tells specifically of how God called children to follow Him. We discover how well known Christian men and women first heard Him calling them: take Charles Spurgeon for example, or Lord Shaftsbury, or Wilson Carlile, or Adam Clarke–preachers, reformers, missionaries–many heard God call them to follow him at an early age. Edwin and Lillian Harvey, with the help of their daughter Trudy Harvey Tait, wrote these two books which may be purchased at Harvey Christian Publisher’s online bookstore in the hope that many boys and girls would be encouraged to pray and to listen, for we never know what God might wish to say to us at any time. Listening is hard sometimes in our noisy world, but oh so rewarding, especially when Someone Who never sleeps, or goes on vacation, or spends a week in the hospital is at the other end of the line. He knows every voice of every person He ever created, but do we know His?

Among the various compilations which we offer through our , we have discovered that any book on prayer is in demand. The most popular of these are Kneeling We Triumph Volumes One and Two.

In any Christian Book Store, you can pick up a book on prayer quite easily.

But the above mentioned books are unique. This is because they are not simply manuals on “how to pray” but collections of choice quotes from the lives of saints who have discovered that prayer was the essential ingredient in their walk with God.

I can remember vividly when my parents, Edwin and Lillian Harvey, were preparing these books for the press. I was pregnant with our first and only child and my parents invited my husband and I to spend a weekend in the Welsh country side, not too far from the sea. It was hardly a mini-holiday but certainly an inspiring few days as we read and reread the manuscripts which were laid out on every available chair and table. “Should we put this quote in our book on prayer,” my mother or father would ask. “Do you think this quote fits this reading?” And then would come times of prayer that future generations would truly be blessed through these two volumes.

The first book on prayer, Volume One, was originally intended for pastors and Christian workers while its companion was to be more suitable for lay Christians. We have found however, that both have been a blessing to whoever has a desire to know God better and learn how to pray.

Category: Prayer

Asking Father and Father Calling

Book on Prayer — Kneeling We Triumph