I have traveled from a place of unforgiveness, adolescent anger and resentments and overcoming temptations of the streets to a path to forgiveness, healing, confronting family of origin issues and childhood traumas by way of therapy, twelve-step co-dependency recovery program, prayer, and meditation.
This book will start out with discovering all that God has granted for us to know. The enemy has stolen and robbed so many for centuries. It is time to learn how we are to recover and see full restoration. God wants to stir restoration to such a level that it will release a restoration movement where all that has been lost or stolen will be restored. You will receive much revelation through this breakthrough book.
“What is the Lord’s recovery? It is not so easy to answer this question. First of all, we must see the real significance of the word recovery. It means that something was there originally, yet it became lost. Now it must be recovered. Hence, when we speak of the Lord’s recovery, it means that the Lord had certain things in the beginning, which at a certain stage became lost. Now He must recover all the things that have become lost.” The first of those things is the matter of life. The Lord’s recovery today is first to recover the matter of life. The Lord’s recovery is also to recover the matters of the Spirit and the church. In a general way, these terms are familiar to most Christians, but their real significance has been lost. Finally, the Lord’s recovery is to recover the matter of the kingdom, which is constituted with life, the Spirit, and the church. Although the crucial aspects of these matters have been lost, year after year the Lord has been recovering them. This is His recovery.
Neither a commentary on the book of Revelation nor a devotional work -- though it offers aspects of both -- Joy in Our Weakness is instead a theological and practical guide that ushers readers into the very presence of Christ and His Lordship over the powers of evil. Marva Dawn writes compassionately for those who suffer, for this book was born out of her own struggles with physical limitations and chronic illness, and it is intended to help the whole Church learn how to find Joy in every circumstance of life, especially in trials and sufferings. After outlining some important foundational principles in three introductory chapters, Dawn guides readers through the whole book of Revelation, pointing out the errors of those who try to calendarize the end of the world and instead delineating how The Revelation reveals Christ's Lordship, exposes the workings of the powers, and sustains those who suffer until evil is ultimately defeated. Now thoroughly revised for a wider readership, Joy in Our Weakness highlights The Revelation's original purpose -- to comfort afflicted, suffering believers -- and spells out a biblically grounded "theology of weakness," offering a rare gift to the Church today. A wealth of insight and encouragement truly awaits the reader of these pages. Book jacket.
The idea of "The Rapture" -- the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth -- is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and a jumping-off point for the best-selling "Left Behind" series of books. This interpretation, based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts of thousands if not millions of people worldwide. In The Rapture Exposed, Barbara Rossing argues that this script for the world's future is nothing more than a disingenuous distortion of the Bible. The truth, Rossing argues, is that Revelation offers a vision of God's healing love for the world. The Rapture Exposed reclaims Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community.
You are about to discover some of what the entire Church needs to receive. This book will start out with discovering all that God has granted for us to know. The enemy has stolen and robbed so many for centuries. It is time to learn how we are to recover and see full restoration. God wants to stir restoration to such a level that it will release a restoration movement where all that has been lost or stolen will be restored. You will receive much revelation through this breakthrough book.
This book will start out with discovering all that God has granted for us to know. The enemy has stolen and robbed so many for centuries. It is time to learn how we are to recover and see full restoration. God wants to stir restoration to such a level that it will release a restoration movement where all that has been lost or stolen will be restored. You will receive much revelation through this breakthrough book.