When I "came to myself" (see Luke 15), I had been drunk for sixteen years and addicted for longer than that. I was divorced, broke, jobless, homeless, living 1,100 miles away from my children, and totally alone. I had ruined every relationship in my life. Every dream I had was broken. I was discouraged, depressed, and ashamed. I was a mess.
Then someone came into my life and told me that God loved me and had a plan for my life. I needed both of those. So, on a beach in Maine in the middle of February 1995, I knelt down and asked Jesus to forgive me of my sins and to be the Lord of my life. It didn't seem like a life-changing moment at the time.
I didn't know exactly what to do next, so I opened an old Bible and read the page I had opened. Luke 18:18 said to leave everything behind and come to follow Jesus. So, I did. From that moment on, everything began to change.
AsI have grown in faith, I have felt like there was more. Reading Smith Wigglesworth, AW Tozer, Kenneth Hagin and Bill Johnson provoked me to seek more of God. I was dissatisfied, feeling like I knew about Him but didn't really know Him, personally. I wasn't satisfied with other people's stories. I wanted to know God, myself. I wanted my own Damascus road story. So, I went looking for Him.
And I found Him.
I found Him in prison cells and county jails, amidst the broken lives of inmates. I found Him in the songs of praise of forty orphans, gathered before school in the cold mountains of India. I found Him in a country church, in the lives of quiet, honest people struggling with life. I found Him in hotel rooms, on my knees, crying out to Him. I found Him in my own life. I found Him everywhere. Now, He is the father I always wish I had. He is always with me, guiding, comforting, teaching, and revealing more and more of Himself.
He is the ultimate good Father.
This book is my story of discovering God and, in the process, discovering myself as His son. My prayer is that He might use this to bless someone, to reveal Himself to sons and daughters, to win their hearts as their heavenly Father.
Автор: Jeffrey Ellis Название: Towards a General Comparative Linguistics ISBN: 3112414802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783112414804 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 20446.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Ellis, Robert Goodyear, Jeffrey Название: Students` experiences of e-learning in higher education ISBN: 0415989353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415989350 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Helps higher education instructors and university managers understand how e-learning relates to, and can be integrated with, other student experiences of learning. This book emphasizes the importance of how students interpret the challenges set before them, along with their conceptions of learning and their approaches to learning.
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