The Call to Persistent Prayer

Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World

This flow traces the book’s central movement from prayerlessness into determined fellowship with God and active intercession.

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The Interrupted Departure The Interrupted Departure from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Interrupted Departure Hank Kunneman is about to leave his prayer room when he senses God asking him not to go.

The Interrupted Departure from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Interrupted Departure Hank Kunneman is about to leave his prayer room when he senses God asking him not to go.

The Interrupted Departure Hank Kunneman is about to leave his prayer room when he senses God asking him not to go. A Personal Revelation The moment reframes prayer as mutual fellowship rather than religious duty. God is presented as desiring conversation, attention, and companionship. The Central Provocation Hank’s schedule suddenly appears secondary to the divine invitation. The scene establishes the book’s governing question: what changes when a believer refuses to leave God alone?

The Habit of Prayer The Habit of Prayer from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Habit of Prayer Hank identifies prayerlessness as a quiet danger that can replace daily communion with occasional emergency appeals.

The Habit of Prayer from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Habit of Prayer Hank identifies prayerlessness as a quiet danger that can replace daily communion with occasional emergency appeals.

The Habit of Prayer Hank identifies prayerlessness as a quiet danger that can replace daily communion with occasional emergency appeals. Lost Attention Fast schedules, meals, entertainment, and ministry programs repeatedly displace the meeting place where fellowship with God should occur. Deliberate Return He argues that a fixed time and place can turn desire into habit. Prayer becomes a practiced refusal to let distraction sever the relationship.

The Dry Season The Dry Season from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Dry Season Hank enters a season in which prayer feels dull, God seems distant, and repeated disappointment drains his expectation.

The Dry Season from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Dry Season Hank enters a season in which prayer feels dull, God seems distant, and repeated disappointment drains his expectation.

The Dry Season Hank enters a season in which prayer feels dull, God seems distant, and repeated disappointment drains his expectation. The Desert Experience He retreats to a camp with fasting, prayer, and an emergency sack of snacks, admitting that spiritual dryness has made persistence difficult. Renewed Pursuit A delayed encounter with deer becomes a personal lesson: continued pursuit forms an endurance that remains after emotional consolation fades.

The House of Prayer The House of Prayer from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The House of Prayer Hank shifts the focus from private devotion to the church’s public identity as a place governed by prayer.

The House of Prayer from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The House of Prayer Hank shifts the focus from private devotion to the church’s public identity as a place governed by prayer.

The House of Prayer Hank shifts the focus from private devotion to the church’s public identity as a place governed by prayer. A Displaced Center He observes that meals, programs, and departments often receive stronger commitment than corporate intercession. The church risks becoming organized without becoming spiritually alive. Restoration of Priority The call is not merely for specialists but for the whole congregation. Prayer is presented as the foundation from which ministry, miracles, and communal purpose should grow.

The Lifestyle That Pays The Lifestyle That Pays from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Lifestyle That Pays A highway rescue becomes Hank’s practical proof that a cultivated prayer life can meet a crisis before there is time for preparation.

The Lifestyle That Pays from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Lifestyle That Pays A highway rescue becomes Hank’s practical proof that a cultivated prayer life can meet a crisis before there is time for preparation.

The Lifestyle That Pays A highway rescue becomes Hank’s practical proof that a cultivated prayer life can meet a crisis before there is time for preparation. Sudden Emergency He finds an injured pedestrian on an interstate and must respond while fear, blood, and uncertainty surround him. Prepared Compassion Prayer, prophetic speech, and faith shape his actions, while the survivor’s unexpected recovery confirms the book’s claim that private devotion can become public help.

early in the book

shortly after the prayer-room experience

during Hank’s six-month spiritual drought

after Hank reflects on church life

near the end of the opening movement