Grant, I look for a link that says something like click here to download.

earlier, Grant E. Metcalf, wrote:
>HELP!
>
>I went to the sendspace links and found the files, however, I cannot 
>figure out how to download the files. Whenever I click on the files 
>SendSpace keeps trying to install other programs on my computer 
>which I do not want and in the end I do not get a copy of the book 
>file either. You can right me off list with your explanation if no 
>one else has this problem.
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Listening for His shout!
>
>Grant
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris and Chris" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 12:36 PM
>Subject: By Request: Resending "The Papa Prayer" by Dr. Larry Crabb
>
>
>I had a request to resend the "Papa Prayer" book.
>Please find description and link below.
>
>Enjoy and be blessed
>
>Doris in Germany
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>forwarded message:
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>This is the book Chris and I are currently
>reading together. It is a wonderful book that
>really challenges but speaks to and from the
>middle at the same time. Please find download
>links for just the etext in .rtf format or the
>audio in mp3 recorded with Neospeech Paul.
>
>
>CBN.com
>  -- Prayer is my passion. Although I am not good
>at it and don't fully understand it, I am growing
>in that discipline. So is Larry Crabb. From the first
>page of his latest book
>The PAPA Prayer,
>the reader connects with Crabb's personal
>struggle with prayer over the years. As a
>self-proclaimed "relentless realist", Crabb shares his journey from
>lifeless praying to a new way of relating to God.
>
>Reading his book is like talking to a safe friend
>who, without condemnation, shares where he came
>from, the journey, and how God has and is changing him.
>
>
>The PAPA Prayer
>  is centered on knowing God and building a
>relationship with Him. The goal is not praise nor
>thanksgiving, and certainly not petition, for which we evangelicals
>are famous. Many of our personal and corporate
>prayer times are often a list of wants and needs
>as if we are sitting on Santa's lap as a child before Christmas.
>Sure there are a few sentences praising God and
>thanking Him, but the majority of time is spent
>listing off requests. However good and needed these requests
>may be, Crabb suggests that prayer is not about
>that at all. It is not about making our life on
>earth as comfortable as possible, nor praying for everything
>to go right; it is about us coming to God as we are and relating to Him.
>
>Relational Prayer is us communicating in a real
>way with the God of the universe where we speak
>and we also listen. Not only that, but we learn to hear,
>not in a mystical way, but in a practical way. We
>learn that knowing God has so much more for us as
>Christians then any blessing here on earth. The blessings
>on earth are referred to as "second things" -- second to knowing 
>God, which should be our "first thing".
>
>How do we keep first things first? In the second
>part of the book Larry Crabb explains in more
>detail how to pray the PAPA prayer, which includes Presenting
>yourself to God; Attending to how you think of
>God; Purging yourself of anything that blocks
>your relationship with God; and Approaching God as your "first
>thing".
>
>The first step in the Papa prayer is presenting
>yourself to God, not in how you think that you
>should be, but in how you really are, authentically. Crabb
>suggests that you make a pattern of looking at
>where you are, to your very core, and telling God
>just that without holding anything back. You are to find
>your "red dot" -- the exact point that you are at that very moment.
>
>Once you have presented the real you, then you
>attend to your present picture of God. Many of us
>grow up picturing God in an inaccurate manner, perhaps
>as a buddy or a stern father. It is important to
>unpack how you are thinking of God and then correct it with Scripture.
>
>Crabb states: "When we see Jesus as He really is,
>today, right now, we don't casually pray .
>Instead, we're silenced. We dare not speak till spoken to."
>
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>At this point, we need to clear out anything that
>is blocking our relationship with our Heavenly
>Father. We should see how we can be obsessed with ourselves
>when we should be with God. Then we are free to
>approach God and allow Him to fill all of our empty places.
>
>Throughout his book, Crabb shares examples of how
>the PAPA prayer might be worded in real life
>situations and ends the book with a four-day plan to help
>the reader delve into himself. He also ends with
>a note to women and one to men to personalize how
>we each relate to God differently.
>
>The final paragraph ends the book the very way
>Crabb could have also started it: "I offer the
>PAPA prayer to return the body of Christ, and all its lonely
>members, to the center of their privileged
>position, to a close relationship with God. I
>offer this book to restore prayer to its highest purpose."
>
>If you are ready to be challenged to a new way of
>thinking about prayer and perhaps a new way of
>looking at the Christian life, pick up a copy of
>The PAPA Prayer
>  and see how Crabb's new way of praying can also
>change your life. Prepare to begin a new journey.
>
>
>
>download link for audio (tts2audio Neospeech Paul + .rtf etext)
>
>http://www.sendspace.com/file/po2amz
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>Just the etext in .rtf format:
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>http://www.sendspace.com/file/5b7yct

John