Originally released in 2009 and updated in 2017, the award-winning book has encouraged thousands of Christians to pursue a vibrant prayer life
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (February 27, 2026) — NavPress, a business ministry of The Navigators, is pleased to announce that Paul E. Miller’s 2009 title, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World, has earned the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Gold Milestone Sales Award for sales exceeding 500,000 copies. Updated with expanded content in 2017, A Praying Life has coached thousands of readers on how to develop daily rhythms of conversation with God.
“A Praying Life was the first NavPress book someone told me changed their life,” shares David Zimmerman, publisher at NavPress. “Ever since then I’ve thought of it as one of those books in our catalog that met its moment and never lost sight of its reader or the God who invites us into a life of trust and hope. It was only a matter of time before Paul’s book cleared this threshold, and I’m thrilled for him that this moment has come.”
A Praying Life will be honored at the annual ECPA Awards Celebration, to be held April 28, 2026 in Chicago.
Reflecting on this milestone sales achievement, author Paul Miller expressed being “thrilled that 500,000 people are learning not just how to pray but to ‘do life through prayer’ as we say in our A Praying Life Seminars and Cohorts. I continue to pray daily that the worldwide church would learn to pray again, and learn to manage not in its own strength but in the Spirit’s.”
Miller is the founder and executive director of seeJesus, a global discipling mission. He has authored several books, including Love Walked Among Us, another NavPress bestseller.
To learn more about A Praying Life and other NavPress resources, visit NavPress.com.
About NavPress
NavPress is a business ministry of The Navigators. With a rich catalog of bestselling books, discipleship resources, and The Message® Bible, NavPress equips readers “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same®.” Since 2014, NavPress has been in a publishing alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, one of the largest independently-owned Christian publishers in the world. NavPress resources are sold, distributed, and marketed worldwide through Tyndale House Publishers. NavPress, the NavPress logo, and The Message ® are registered trademarks of NavPress, The Navigators, Colorado Springs, CO.
About The U.S. Navigators
The Navigators is a ministry that shares the gospel of Jesus and helps people grow in their relationship with Him through Life-to-Life® discipleship, creating spiritual generations of believers. Since its founding in 1933, The Navigators has upheld the mission “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same®.” Our Worldwide Partnership includes around 6,000 staff of 85 nationalities, serving in 123 countries. Navigators encourage spiritual growth across life stages, serving wherever people work, live, worship, and play: on college campuses and military bases as well as in urban neighborhoods, workplaces, churches, local communities, and hard-to-reach places. To learn more, visit www.navigators.org.
Contact: Chris Muller, Senior Vice President, Ministry Engagement
(719) 594-2268, chris.muller@navigators.org
