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Find freedom from the never-ending quest for approval and
affirmation by learning how to accept the undeserved gift of grace
from a merciful God. In today's society, the pressure to perform is
overwhelming. It's a hustling, image-forward age of opportunity,
and women are more anxious than ever. Many of us end up constantly
feeling behind, lacking, and like we're failing-at home, at work,
with friends, with God. In this six-session Bible study (video
streaming included), bestselling author, artist, entrepreneur, and
speaker Ruth Chou Simons calls women to discover how God's profound
gift of grace and favor invites them to rest from chasing approval
and earning love, and instead discover the freedom of true
belonging and worth that doesn't depend on them. This study guide
has everything you need for a full Bible study experience,
including: The study guide itself-with warm-up, group discussion
and personal reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's
guide. An individual access code to stream all six video sessions
online (you don't need to buy a DVD!). After going through this
study, you'll walk away understanding more fully that the generous,
unmerited favor of God is the means to the welcome, love, and
approval you so deeply long for. Watch on any device! Streaming
video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after
12/31/2027. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this
package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this
package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited,
taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.
Cancel the Enemy's Assignment That Is Stealing Your Breakthrough!
Being delivered and set free from sin and bondage does not mean
that the enemy now considers you off limits. He will surely
attempt--again and again--to wrap those old chains back around you.
Focusing on key strategies from Scripture, ex-satanic high priest
John Ramirez teaches you how to shore up your defenses in Christ
after winning a battle, and how to put your life back in order.
Ramirez uses his own experiences to reveal principles for growing
in your faith and in Holy Spirit power so that, when the next
attack comes, you are stronger, wiser and more knowledgeable. This
empowering book will equip you with strategies, Scriptures and
deliverance prayers so you can * understand how the devil tries to
trap you * focus on biblical examples to make your faith unshakable
* determine which fights are yours and which are not * pray for
deliverance during spiritual combat * learn how to maintain your
new freedom in Christ * and more Be prepared for the next encounter
with the enemy, to gain the upper hand and hold fast the victory!
"Conquer Your Deliverance is a right-now book birthed from heaven's
war room for the Body of Christ."--DR. HAKEEM COLLINS,
international speaker and author
There was once a time when the world was perfect. Then sin happened
in Paradise, and life has never been the same. We all are affected
by sin. Because of sin, we are our own worst enemies.
"Confronting the Enemies Within "teaches us to trust God in
everything. If we cultivate God's character in our lives, we can
develop a strong relationship with Him that gives us the power to
wage war against sin and temptation.
The Journey Study Series is based on Billy Graham's best-selling
book The Journey, the culmination of a lifetime of spiritual
insight and ministry experience. Each chapter explores the joys,
triumphs, and conflicts we all encounter on our journey through
life.Use for self-study or shared experiences in small groupssix
weeks of lessonssidebars offer a scriptural journey through God's
wordQuestions for starting group discussionsInsight-filled
Scripture passages to studyEach chapter includes thought-provoking
questions, commentary, Scriptures, and insights to help you on
life's journey. Each lesson teaches the secret of walking with God
on life's path. Understanding God's truths will make life's journey
easier and let Him fulfill His promise to lead you home.
If you want breakthrough, you have to break through!
Most people struggle to assume the best of themselves. And their poor
self-concept is
only made worse by their past mistakes, poor choices, and failures.
Kimberly has
heard the inner voice that continually says, “You can’t.” And she’s
learned how to shut
it up. Known for telling it like it is, Real Talk Kim, as Jones-Pothier
is known,
challenges readers to stare inadequacy in the face and say, “Not
today!” Exposing her
own messes and failures, she leads readers on a journey to overcome the
negative
thinking, fear, loneliness, disappointment, and wrong view of self that
have led to
their feelings of inadequacy so they can walk in the fullness of God’s
purpose for
them.
The enemy is always going to tell people what they can and cannot do.
He’s always
going to play into their fears and regrets. Jones-Pothier reveals the
truths that will
silence the accuser and empower readers to stop being ruled by their
emotions,
make choices from a place of confidence instead of doubt and insecurity,
realize that God’s plan is bigger than their past, reject the labels
others have
placed on them, let God determine who they are, and stop being a victim
and
find the freedom to be themselves. Breakthroughs don’t come without a
fight.
Anyone who wants a breakthrough has to break through—they have to act.
Providing
practical tools that lead to victory, Shut Hell Up shows readers how to
stop seeing
themselves as inadequate and embrace who God says they are. When you
feel not
enough, God says I AM ENOUGH.
This book will help you use what God says about you to fight negative
self-talk
and lies from the enemy.
A true story of freedom and miraculous healing as a Muslim girl
finds faith in Christ When Gulshan Esther, a devout Muslim girl,
was six months old, typhoid left her a cripple. Her loving father
took her from Pakistan to England to find a cure, but the only hope
the British specialist could offer was prayer. Gulshan and her
father made pilgrimage to Mecca and begged Allah for healing, but
it was not until her father's untimely death that Gulshan began to
receive an answer. In her grief she wanted to die, but as she
called out to God, for the first time in her life she sensed she
was being heard. She heard a low, gentle voice say, "I won't let
you die. I will keep you alive"I am Jesus, son of Mary." As Gulshan
began reading the Quran, her interest in Jesus grew, until one
amazing night he appeared to her in her bedroom in a blaze of
light. He restored her crippled arm and leg and taught her The
Lord's Prayer. He told her to go to his people-now her people-and
tell them what he had done. Since that time, and to this day, she
has been a joyous, obedient disciple of Christ. The Torn Veil is an
amazing story of faith and determination. This moving autobiography
was first published in 1984 and has sold over 200,000 copies
worldwide.
The mother and daughter team of Marilyn Hickey and Sarah Bowling
explain the significance of generational curses and blessings and
how readers have the power to have an impact on the spiritual
heritage they hand to their children.Christians are empowered to
affect their lives and turn around negative outcomes. No one is
bound by family circumstances, past failures, or 'curses' passed
down from previous generations. Through the Word of God, the Blood
of Jesus, and personal determination legacies of hurt and
destruction can be reversed and new patterns of successful living
can be established for generations to come.Through practical
insights and their personal stories, Marilyn and Sarah explain that
a 'divine interruption' is key - a new path to come in step with
God and to a closer walk with Him - 'resetting' the direction of
their lives and filling their families' futures with blessing.
Reinvention strategist Marshawn Evans Daniels delivers a practical
and inspirational guide for women ready to reclaim their lives and
discover a higher purpose, demonstrating that through disruption,
life can become sweeter than you ever imagined--Believe Bigger is
"your most inspiring girlfriend in book form" (Booklist). Marshawn
Evans Daniels thought she was on the right path. She was an
accomplished business woman and high-powered sports attorney ready
to marry the man of her dreams--until she learned just days before
a fairytale wedding that he was cheating on her. After this
betrayal flipped her seemingly perfect world upside down, she found
herself craving significance, not just success. Believe Bigger is
about resilience, reclaiming your life, and discovering how God
uses rejection, hardship, and unexpected circumstances to awaken
something greater within...if you're willing to embrace disruption.
You'll see her go from heartbroken and hitting rock bottom
financially, to building a multi-million-dollar faith-centered
enterprise and finding something super sweet along the way: a
calling. Through Marshawn's own "very compelling personal story of
betrayal, heartbreak, and--in the end--healing" (Faith Jenkins, TV
personality and host of Judge Faith) will show you how you too can
turn pain into purpose. Believe Bigger is "a great guide to making
seemingly impossible dreams a reality" (Michelle McKinney Hammond,
bestselling author). Whether you are drowning in self-doubt and
regret, feeling stuck, or sensing a shift but unable to discern
what's next, Marshawn's Purpose Map outlining the 5 Stages of
Divine Reinvention will give you insight into your true gifts and
calling--and the courage to pursue them. You'll see that
difficulties are not designed to devastate you, but to ignite the
bigger dreams, life, love, and abundance you were destined for all
along.
Pilgrimage in the Western world is enjoying a growing popularity,
perhaps more so now than at any time since the Middle Ages. The
Pilgrim Journey tells the fascinating story of how pilgrimage was
born and grew in antiquity, how it blossomed in the Middle Ages and
faltered in subsequent centuries, only to re-emerge stronger than
before in modern times. James Harpur describes the pilgrim routes
and sacred destinations past and present, the men and women making
the journey, the many challenges of travel, and the spiritual
motivations and rewards. He also explores the traditional stages of
pilgrimage, from preparation, departure, and the time on the road,
to the arrival at the shrine and the return home. At the heart of
pilgrimage is a spiritual longing that has existed from time
immemorial. The Pilgrim Journey is both the colourful chronicle of
numerous pilgrims of centuries past searching for heaven on earth,
and an illuminating guide for today's spiritual traveller.
In this year's BRF Lent book Sally Welch explores two questions:
What is the Easter story really about, and how do we share it?
Through each week of Lent, a different aspect of the Easter story
is examined: repenting, changing, hoping, trusting, forgiving,
loving and sacrificing. Within each week, the days are focused on
what we need to do in order to share the story: listening,
understanding, reflecting, living, telling, sharing and becoming.
Each day offers a Bible passage, followed by a reflection and
prayer activity. Suggestions for group study and group study
questions are also included.
Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder,
moving into the death and dormancy of winter. Before we can greet
the coming of the light, we need to engage with some themes that
are challenging and occasionally fearful. Like the Magi who
travelled a long distance to search out and adore the infant Jesus,
and who took some wrong turns on the way, we too have a journey to
undertake before we find that we have 'Walked haphazard by
starlight straight Into the kingdom of heaven.' U. A. Fanthorpe,
BC:AD Haphazard by Starlight is a companion volume to Janet
Morley's bestselling Lent book, The Heart's Time (SPCK, 2011),
which delighted readers with its thoughtfully chosen selection of
poems and its biblically sensitive commentaries. Here, the reader
is given an opportunity to engage in a pilgrimage of the heart,
through Advent and Christmas to the feast of the Epiphany. Each day
- from 1 December to 6 January - offers a poem (sometimes
explicitly Christian, often not) and an accessible commentary that
is both critically informed and devotional in intent. The poets
represented include Rowan Williams, Elizabeth Jennings, Edwin Muir,
Philip Larkin, Jane Kenyon, Gillian Clarke, George Herbert, T. S.
Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Waldo Williams, P. J.
Kavanagh, Ruth Fainlight, William Blake and many more.
The Prayer of Jabez Bible Study reveals how to make praying the
Jabez prayer a lifetime habit. Readers will broaden their
understanding of the four components of the Jabez prayer ("bless
me; enlarge my borders; keep Your hand upon me; keep me from evil")
by investigating key scriptural passages and learning how to apply
them to their lives. Graphics and lighthearted illustrations make
this innovative, four-week study impactful and fun. An eighty-page
Leader's Edition with two additional, optional sessions is also
available.
We live, eat, sleep and dream travel - it's become a booming
industry, a top conversation topic and, frankly, an obsession. But
are we really free to roam the world as we wish? What does God say
about travel? Shouldn't we instead be doing evangelism? Where is
the clear missionary purpose in all this? The author knows all too
well what it is to have caught the wanderlust bug. He skilfully
interweaves his, and others, travelling experiences as he applies
the Bible's teaching on this vital subject. Marvel with him at the
generosity of our creator God who has given us this amazing world.
And learn how to make the most of your travels.
Popular speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Woman
Evolve, Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified
by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to
believe God's best is still possible. Everyone has experiences in
their lives that stop them in their tracks and become burdens they
carry with them everywhere they go. No one knows this better than
Sarah Jakes Roberts. Pregnant at fourteen, married by nineteen,
divorced by twenty-two, and all while under the intense spotlight
of being Bishop T.D. Jakes's daughter, Sarah knows what it is to
feel buried by failure and aching pain. But when her journey
brought her to faith's fork in the road, Sarah found she had to
choose between staying in the comfort of the pain she knew or
daring to make new wounds and move forward. Now Sarah shares the
numerous life lessons she's learned along the way with other women
also struggling to believe they're not disqualified by their pain
and past mistakes. She delves into topics such as allowing the past
to empower the present, choosing to step forward while still being
afraid, facing struggles in the midst of community, finding
intimacy with God outside of preconceived notions of what it should
look like, and learning to focus on others. In Don't Settle for
Safe, Sarah will help you: View your history with positivity
Demolish destructive patterns Connect with true intimacy Repurpose
your passion into to your purpose Realize your true calling With
deeply personal stories of her own, Sarah helps readers find their
way to the right perspective and the confidence to walk toward the
best God has for them.
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