May 4, 2026
Half a Million Readers Are Learning to Pray — and NavPress Just Got to Celebrate It
Half a Million Readers Are Learning to Pray — and NavPress Just Got to Celebrate It
A Praying Life received the ECPA Gold Sales Award this week. Here’s why this milestone still matters — and how to get the book for 30% off this month.
This week, at the annual ECPA Awards Celebration in Chicago, NavPress had the joy of watching A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul E. Miller receive the ECPA Gold Milestone Sales Award — recognition reserved for titles that have crossed the remarkable threshold of 500,000 copies sold.
It’s a number worth sitting with for a moment. Five hundred thousand readers. Half a million people who picked up a book about prayer and found something that stayed with them.
For NavPress publisher David Zimmerman, the milestone is personal.
“A Praying Life was the first NavPress book someone told me changed their life. 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.”
— David Zimmerman, Publisher, NavPress
Originally published in 2009 and updated with expanded content in 2017, A Praying Life has spent more than fifteen years helping readers move past rote recitation and into genuine, daily conversation with God. Miller’s approach is refreshingly practical — less about technique, more about relationship.
Miller himself reflected on what the award really represents:
“I’m 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.”
— Paul E. Miller, Author & Founder of seeJesus
Paul Miller is the founder and executive director of seeJesus, a global discipling mission, and the author of several books including Love Walked Among Us, another NavPress bestseller. His A Praying Life Seminars and Cohorts continue to bring the book’s teaching to churches and communities around the world.
