This book was written by Bill Johnson and Randy Clark. I must say it was an excellent book. The book starts off with both of their journeys and how they came to a place to believe God's Word and to believe in walking in the gifts given by the Holy Spirit. God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever, His promises never lie and they don't change. A quote from the book, "Becoming "self focused works against the anointing He puts upon us to touch others with His grace." Healing and miracles take place because of the grace of God. Spiritual warfare is real...and this book shows how the devil uses it to keep us from believing and doing what God's Word tells us to do.
Also, it reminds of us of how much the word of our testimony brings faith to others. We need to begin to testify of God's goodness and what He has done for us. These testimonys bring FAITH! FAITH in the GRACE of GOD!!!!!
The primary purposes of the gifts of the Holy Spirit - "their primary purpose is to make the mercy, love, and power of God tangible to us today. There are places in the book that shows the shift of where we stopped believing at times and instead started just believing everything in life happened due to the predetermined will of God. This is a lie the devil wants us to believe. "Now, instead of believing that sickness was brought on by the devil (who ought to be resisted), people believed that God brought on sickness for a person's spiritual sanctification." What a lie...the thief (the devil) comes to steal, kill, and destroy...not God.
This book went into how other gifts of the Holy Spirit flow with the gift of healing and miracles. The illustrations were built faith within me. It is one of the few books that also brings out how the "pre-trib" concept came about...This view was never even heard of until the 1830's after a 15 year old had a dream....I applaud them for putting this truth into the book.
Realizing that many sicknesses are present because of sin or unforgiveness in our lives is so important to all of us. Unforgiveness brings bitterness, which can cause the body to become sick in and of itself. We have to forgive and we have to release others of wrongs they have done to us. We also have to look to see if there are generations curses that might need to be broken...things that happened that brought trauma to our lives...things that might be a spirit that needs to be cast out.
We have to look at what the Word says and not just what man says...Keep God's word formost in front of you and believe that it is His will to Heal and Restore...I really enjoyed this book and believe others will enjoy it as well. The scripture references are great...which we all need to look at and not just take anyones word for. Believe God's WORD...WALK IN IT. Lets God use you to bring words of knowledge, words of wisdom to bring healing to others. Stay humble and be open and listen and obey...it is not about us...it is all ABOUT GOD! I recommend this book to everyone! Great book and good book to use for teaching others as well.
Awesome review, mom!
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