Untangling Emotions


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How do you feel about how you feel? Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don't always know what to do with how we feel. The Bible teaches us that our emotions are an indispensable part of what makes us human—and play a crucial role in our relationships with God and others. Exploring how God designed emotions for our good, this book shows us how to properly engage with our emotions—even the more difficult ones like fear, anger, shame, guilt, and sorrow—so we can better understand what they reveal about our hearts and handle them wisely in everyday moments.




Engaging the Hand of God


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And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Ezekiel 22:30. if there is ever a time that we need someone to stand in the gap for our families, communities, and the cities of our world, now is the time. The spirit of intercession is missing in our lives today and because of that the enemy is unleashing his attacks upon the believers and the church. God in this dispensation of grace is looking for one to stand in the gap, engage Him through prayer and supplication and to enforce the mandate of God in the affairs of men. This book is design to awaken the passion of intercession, and to bring you into the awareness of the miracles of engaging the hand of God in every aspect of your life. I trust that as you read this book, your life and prayer life will never be the same. Be bless, live long and prosper




The Mystery of Divine Intervention


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Introduction There are five things that will always happen for as long as we live serving the purposes of God in and through this platform. Every time we gather, there must be encounters. An encounter is an experience that makes God and His principles real in your life. There must be transformation- the name given to the process that makes you become like Christ in experience. We must give the Holy Spirit an opportunity to review the love and the power of Jesus through signs, wonders and miracles. There must be impartations of all sorts. An impartation is a transference of spiritual possibilities. Men can carry graces. Our possibilities in this kingdom are defined by the kinds and the levels of graces that we carry. "Thou anointed my head with oil" and I see the proof on my head by looking at my cup; it doesn't anoint my cup . If something is wrong with my cup, the problem is not my cup; the problem is what is on my head. We must always provide an opportunity for fellowship. How good and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity. It's like the oil that comes upon the head of Aaron down to his beard and his garment. It says, "There, the Lord has commanded the blessing." What you're about to read will change your life in the name of Jesus Christ. The Lord put a very powerful teaching in my heart and I'm sent to the body of Christ primarily. It's regardless denomination, the doctrinal differences that seem to divide us (it's part of the reasons why He brought us to this city and has projected us to the nations as instruments of unity, balance, dexterity and groove). We are lifted and strengthened in this kingdom not based on our longevity in the faith. Time does not change anything. Time only reveals. A 10-year-old error can still destroy like a 1-year-old error provided it is error. It takes understanding. It says, " for the people that sat in darkness have seen a great light". If you're distracted when the word of God is coming, be sure that it is an attack because it takes focus and concentration to receive. There is an intellectual dimension to the reception of the word. It's not just a spiritual affair alone; your mind has to be active and fruitful. So, even if your spirit is alive and your mind is distracted... That's why sometimes before the message comes, God quickly settles issues like these because some of those issues are the things that distract people from listening. While the word of God is coming, someone is thinking, "How do I battle this issue, how do I battle that issue?"




The Visible Hand of God


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God on Mute


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Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie's fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain, don't fit, won't work. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow . . . even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest, and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.




Family Worship


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In the Hands of God


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How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion Why do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel. Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington, DC, area, Johanna Bard Richlin shows that affective experience is key to comprehending migrants’ turn toward intense religiosity, and their resulting evangelical commitment. The conditions of migrant life—family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future—shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches deliberately and deftly articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress through affective therapeutics, the strategic “healing” of migrants’ psychological pain. Richlin offers insights into the affective dimensions of migration, the strategies pursued by evangelical churches to attract migrants, and the ways in which evangelical belonging enables migrants to feel better, emboldening them to improve their lives. Looking at the ways evangelical churches help migrants navigate negative emotions, In the Hands of God sheds light on the versatility and durability of evangelical Christianity.




The Language of Heaven


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What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? This book will help you overcome the arguments, fears, and anxieties related to this gift. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Shares the author's personal testimony and spiritual journey with speaking in tongues Examines the history of this gift in the church for the past two thousand years Interacts with those who have denied that this gift is valid for today's church Speaks to the relationship between Spirit baptism, Spirit filling, and the gift of tongues Few other issues have separated the church more than the issue of tongues. Sam Storms focuses on this controversial subject with his signature insights to theology and the gifts of the spirit. What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? Storms seeks to bring balance to this subject in The Language of Heaven as he wrestles with this sensitive issue experientially as well as theologically. He ultimately provides a platform to allow God to speak for Himself as he addresses every text of Scripture on the subject and engages with every theological issue that speaking in tongues provokes. As a pastor, Storms knows the questions that the typical churchgoer is asking and provides clear and accessible answers to them all, including: Is the gift of tongues for every Christian or only some? How does the gift of tongues operate in the life of the believer individually in private practice? How does the gift of tongues operate in the corporate assembly of God's church? How is the Christian edified and strengthened by praying in tongues? How do I pray for the gift and prepare my heart to receive it? You can overcome the arguments, fears, and anxieties related to this spiritual gift. Remember, God gives only good gifts, and it is His intention that His church utilize all that He has provided so that we might experience all that He is.




Gravity and Gladness


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This DVD and study guide will help believers journey toward a better understanding of how seriousness and happiness blend in godly worship. Perfect for Bible studies and community groups.




The Left Hand of God


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The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy. "Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary." The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith. In one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die. His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt. But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price... not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not. The Left Hand of God is a must read. It is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman. Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series. Praise for Paul Hoffman: 'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden 'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph 'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express