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James Langston Announces the Release of When Prayer Seems So Difficult—Pray Anyway

A Compassionate 470-Page Journey for the Weary Traveler Who Still Wants to Find the Way Home

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — August 2026

Pilgrim Outreach Ministries International is pleased to announce the release of author, pastor, missionary, and retired U.S. Navy veteran James Langston's latest Christian book, When Prayer Seems So Difficult—Pray Anyway.

The approximately 470-page book is now available through Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle eBook editions.

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFGXMBLL

But this is not simply another book explaining how Christians should pray.

It was written for the person who already knows prayer matters...

but sometimes finds it difficult to pray.

The person who has prayed and waited.

The believer who wonders why Heaven seems silent.

The Christian disappointed by an answer they did not expect.

The grieving person who cannot find the words.

The pastor who has encouraged everybody else but has quietly become weary.

The longtime believer who remembers when talking with God seemed easier.

And the person who may have only enough strength left to whisper:

"Father..."

A BOOK BORN FROM A SIMPLE QUESTION

The project began with a burden:

What do we say to someone who still believes in God but is finding it difficult to pray?

Langston's answer was not another formula.

It was a conversation.

Across twelve chapters, the reader is treated not as a student sitting in a classroom but as a fellow traveler.

Scripture provides the compass.

Honesty is welcomed.

Questions are permitted.

Rest is allowed.

And nobody is overdriven.

The journey explores some of prayer's most difficult places: unanswered questions, waiting, disappointment, forgiveness, faith when understanding is absent, unexpected answers from God, and those moments when a person simply does not know what to say.

One principle remains constant:

The Father is still listening.

THE AUTHOR EVENTUALLY STEPS ASIDE

Perhaps one of the book's most unusual characteristics is what happens as the journey progresses.

The author's voice intentionally becomes less necessary.

Langston explains that the purpose of Christian encouragement should never be to make another person dependent upon the encourager. The ultimate objective is to point that person toward God.

By the closing chapters, the weary traveler who once needed considerable reassurance is gently encouraged to recognize:

You've got wings. It's time to use them.

The author remains available as a fellow traveler—but he is a poor substitute for the One the reader truly needs.

The Father.

MORE THAN TWELVE CHAPTERS

The book concludes with practical resources designed to remain useful long after the initial reading, including:

Thirty Promises for Those Who Pray

Conversations With the Father

Meet Me Here

A Scripture Index organized around the reader's needs

and

One Final Invitation

The resources allow someone facing fear, discouragement, waiting, loneliness, uncertainty, or difficulty praying to return quickly to biblical encouragement without rereading the entire book.

WRITTEN FROM EXPERIENCE, NOT A PEDESTAL

James Langston does not present himself as someone who has mastered prayer.

After more than five decades of walking with God, pastoral and missionary ministry, twenty-seven years of service in the United States Navy, marriage and family life, answered prayers, unanswered questions, victories, disappointments, waiting, and ordinary life, his conclusion is considerably simpler:

He knows where to take the questions.

To the Father.

That posture shapes the entire book.

There is no condemnation for the struggling reader.

No demand for impressive religious language.

No promise that every prayer will receive the answer desired.

Instead, readers are repeatedly invited to come honestly before God.

Come believing.

Come questioning.

Come thankful.

Come disappointed.

Come with tears.

Come with silence.

Just come.

FOR WHOSOEVER WILL

When Prayer Seems So Difficult—Pray Anyway was intentionally written for a broad readership.

Weariness has no nationality.

Grief has no denomination.

Disappointment has no economic class.

Questions have no race.

And the Father's invitation is not restricted to one group of people.

The book is for the new Christian learning to pray and the longtime believer who has prayed for decades.

It is for the person whose faith is strong...

and the person barely holding on.

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

When Prayer Seems So Difficult—Pray Anyway is available through Amazon KDP on:

Paperback
Hardcover
Kindle eBook

Readers can visit the book's Amazon page here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFGXMBLL

If you've prayed...

pray again.

If you're waiting...

keep trusting.

If you're disappointed...

tell the Father.

If you've wandered...

come home.

If you don't know what to say...

start with:

"Father..."

And when prayer seems so difficult—

PRAY ANYWAY.

The Father is still listening.

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