| YADA, YADA, YADA...Why Should I Follow Jesus? Contributor(s): Umidi, Joseph (Introduction by), Exman, Tricia Kaye (Author) |
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ISBN: 197923454X ISBN-13: 9781979234542 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - Spiritual Growth - Self-help |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.37 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: Yada, Yada, Yada We use this phrase in our language today to express boredom for empty talk; when information is too dull or predictable to be worth repeating. We also use it when information is too lengthy or tedious to recite in full. The sense is, "We've heard it all before."The bare-naked truth is we have heard a lot about following Jesus, but what is the point? Why should I, you, or anyone follow Jesus? This book unpacks this question with all its nuances. My only experience of the answer is my experience, and that is what I share. This is a real, personal and tangible expression of one lived-out answer to this question and the lessons I've learned along the way.Preface by Dr. Joseph Umidi, Regent UniversityThere is no way that reading this preface will prepare you for what follows. You might as well take your shoes off now and be stopped in your tracks. The heat of these burning bush narratives will thaw the winter of your own milestone memories of His voice. Somehow, along the way of reading this journey you will discover flickering embers within that are rekindling your first love history and destiny with your creator.Most of the responses to the question "What is God doing in your life lately?" are the disappointing, "I don't know, but I am in a transition." It is as if we can't know on this side of heaven. Or worse, He doesn't want us to know. Yada, Yada, Yada simply shatters that illusion. It breaks the glass ceiling on the wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ and gives us permission and purpose to pursue again. This author has broken the barrier of what we thought we had to settle for in our two-way communication with Abba Father. You will be ruined for the ordinary if you dare to go any further.Like Habakkuk the seer prophet, we have seen and heard too much daily news and lost our perspective on what God is up to both in us and through us in today's circumstances beyond our control. We do not know the melody of our unique rendition of the last verses of the last chapter when he sang;Hab. 3:17-19Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines;Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food;Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls --Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.The Lord God is my strength;He will make my feet like deer's feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills.Because she has taken us to her personal "Watchpost" moments in her life, we get to "watch and see what the Lord will say to me" through the passionate pages of an authentic follower of Jesus. Scales will fall off our eyes as we move from listeners to seers, a key to being before doing.This is a song of covenant intimacy that will embolden you to know more than the acts of the Lord but His ways in you. We are rebooted to the New Testament upgrade privilege of accessing all that the prophets alone did in the Old Testament and this author's story is living proof. We have our own story to reveal to the nations and it is tailor-made by God to be one of a kind treasure.This is your Yada |