The 40 Day Prayer Challenge ─ Unlocking the Power of Partnered Prayer

From the beloved creator of Schoolhouse Rock and the bestselling GodWink series, SQuire Rushnell teams up with his wife Louise DuArt forSpeak It—a simple yet elegant idea that encourages partners to pray together.

SQuire and Louise have practiced daily prayer together for fifteen years. Now, they offer readers step-by-step advice on where, when, and what words to use in praying with another person.Speak It answers the question they hear from readers daily: How can I pray together with my partner?

The couple addresses not only that simple question, but they also explain how partnered prayer can restore relationships and revitalize families. Offering an abundance of success stories, this book measures the phenomenal outcomes when two people pray together five minutes a day for forty days.

Working with several prominent mega-churches and Baylor University’s Institute for the Study of Religion, SQuire and Louise have conducted the first empirical research study ever done on the effects of prayer among two or more people over an extended period. As demonstrated by the more than two dozen praying partners who participated in the challenge, amazing, powerful, wonderful things happen when couples pray together.

SQuire Rushnell is a popular speaker and?New York Times?bestselling author who has coined the term “Godwink,” now in mainstream usage. Within more than one million books in print, SQuire’s Godwink stories are a popular monthly feature on the NBC?Today Show. He has also appeared on several national television programs including Fox News Channel’s?Fox & Friends?and CBS?Sunday Morning. As a veteran ABC Television Network executive, he led?Good Morning America?to the number one spot and oversaw the acclaimed?Schoolhouse Rock!?series and the?ABC Afterschool Specials. Programs under his direction have captured more than seventy-five Emmy Awards.?

Louise DuArt is known as “one of the world’s greatest comedic-impressionists” and costarred with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman in sold-out performances for fifteen seasons. Clean and funny, Louise executes fast-paced conversations between herself and Bart Simpson, Judge Judy, Barbra Streisand, Hillary Clinton, and dozens more. She was a popular Women of Faith speaker and has coauthored three books with her husband, SQuire. She hosted a popular daily talk show on the ABC Family channel for eight seasons, Living the Life, and has starred in various Broadway productions, garnering rave reviews.