The Practice of Piety


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Abandonment to God


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With simplicity and grace, these pages illuminate for you the wisdom in Saint Therese's Little Way, showing how it can enable you, too, to abide in the serenity of the children of God. Led here by the wise Father Joel Guibert, you'll soon come to realize how easy — and how good — it is to surrender yourself to God's providence (as Therese did): in your prayers, in your dealings with others, in your concerns about your loved ones, in your sufferings, and yes, even in your joys. Saint Therese's way of abandonment lightens every burden of day-to-day life. Lighten your own burdens by learning from Father Guibert how to make it your way, placing every worldly care confidently in the hands of the Almighty. You'll grow quickly closer to God and, even in life's darkest moments, come to share in the peace and joy He promises. In these pages, you'll learn from Saint Therese: How to trust God despite evils that beset you How to overcome




Abandoned to Jesus


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I truly believe that God will hear the slightest little cry of 'Lord, please grant revival, ' we will begin to be heard according to our faith. I can well imagine heaven's exclamation, 'Behold, they are praying! At last, instead of just talking to one another in a prayer meeting or displaying their doctrines, they are actually praying!' They are beginning to pull... on the ropes of the promises, that is, to begin to draw upon the cords of grace as if they were the bells of a church tolling in heaven, ringing out the promises of God. Such praying will finally, respectfully, demand the attention of the Almighty, leaving Him with no alternative other than to look down and grant the requests." God will hear our heart cries when we really develop a longing for His presence. However there is a price to be paid that many are not willing to pay. God is a Holy God. Before we can come into His very near presence there is a time of preparation. Walking into the presence of God requires a time of sanctification, a time of consecration, a time of dedication and a time of abandonment. God cannot and will not bring you into His presence if you are living in a state of sin and rebellion. However if you are willing to pay the price, He is ready for you. When you get to that point of total sanctification, total consecration, total dedication and total abandonment to Christ you will see mountains start to move. It is amazing how those moments of humility, pain and emotion in His Presence, not only bring about victory in the heavenly realms, but they also give us strength to pick up and move forward to continue partnering with Him in advancing His Kingdom.Laments touch the heart of God! Just like he heard David's and Habakkuk's, he hears our cries!He hears the cry of the broken. He hears the cries of the hungry and the thirsty, not physical hunger and physical thirst, but that of the spirit. Habakkuk 1:1-4O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.Psalm 13:1-4How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.That is what this book is all about. This book is to help you by giving you some tools to become more sanctified, more consecrated, more dedicated, and more abandoned to Jesus. We will examine many through God's Word how we might become more like Him and draw ever closer to Him. Don't give up, don't get defeated, He is more nearer than you think. Even now He is calling you to come. Come nearer to me. So let's get a heart cry for God's purposes in our lives and in the world around us and let's see Him to amazing things in our midst.




What About Me, God?


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Feeling abandoned by God and others occurs in our life. Let’s learn how to see that abandonment does not occur for the Christian—just more intimacy with God, even when painful.




Oswald Chambers, Abandoned to God


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What do you know about the man behind the popular devotional My Utmost for His Highest? Trace the life of Oswald Chambers from his boyhood in Scotland through an astounding journey of faith and trust in God's provision. From the United Kingdom to a YMCA training camp in Egypt during World War I, Chambers was a man utterly devoted to God and to sharing the timeless wisdom of the Bible with others. Discover a remarkable story, and find inspiration for your walk with Christ.




Abandoned to Lust


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Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and "heretics," who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through careful, innovative readings, Jennifer Knust explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other early Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible. Rejection of Christ led to both immoral sexual behavior and, ultimately, alienation and punishment from God. Knust considers how Christian writers participated in a long tradition of rhetorical invective, a rhetoric that was often employed to defend status and difference. Christians borrowed, deployed, and reconfigured classical rhetorical techniques, turning them against their rulers to undercut their moral and political authority. Knust also examines the use of accusations of licentiousness in conflicts between rival groups of Christians. Portraying rival sects as depraved allowed accusers to claim their own group as representative of "true Christianity." Knust's book also reveals the ways in which sexual slurs and their use in early Christian writings reflected cultural and gendered assumptions about what constituted purity, morality, and truth. In doing so, Abandoned to Lust highlights the complex interrelationships between sex, gender, and sexuality within the classical, biblical, and early-Christian traditions.




Abandoned


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Christians must reexamine God's Word and become equipped to reach out to and receive Jewish people with the love of God in their hearts.




Studies in the Sermon on the Mount


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Covering everything from character and habits to effective prayer and purity of heart, Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) shows you how Jesus’s teachings in the Sermon on the Mount can be lived out in powerful, practical ways. With language updated for today’s readers.




Abandoned into the Heart of God


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Your husband has said hes leaving you. For another woman? A mid-life crisis? To announce his homosexuality? How would you react? Who could you turn to? Abandoned Into the Heart of God is Alexandria Bagnells story of how she answered those questions with Gods help. Alexandria shares her experiences to help women understand they are not alone. By writing practical, supportive and spiritual applications at the end of each chapter, she is able to help women: Diminish the five stages of grief to obtain peace, Combat hopelessness by learning and implementing Gods plan for their lives, Embrace new traditions leading to a unified family. Not only is this book for women who are walking or have walked the journey of abandonment, but also for family members, friends, pastors, counselors and divorce support groups. Abandoned Into the Heart of God is a story of Gods mercy and grace, of forgiveness, of healing and recovery. And, its about His unconditional love for you.