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Summary: So simple, a child can learn it
Review: I like books that get right to the point; I dislike books that are full of fluff and powerless words. In my opinion, a book doesn't have to be thick to be informative. A book doesn't have to have detailed artwork and a luring title on the cover to promise indispensible content. In most cases, the exact opposite is true.
This book by Joyce Meyer is no exception. The book is skinny -- about 120 pages with 6 chapters. Thank you, Joyce. Why can't other authors take notes and learn this poignant formula? A message like this one sells itself, and the shorter amount of space it takes up, the harder the reader is punched.
This book asserts that many believing Christians are living powerless, sterile lives because of their lack of faith in the power of the Name of Jesus. The Name is commonly used as a formality, as a robotic, obligatory word someone must say in order for God to hear (and let alone answer) a prayer. All to often, the Name is spoken bloodlessly, without any real power or conviction.
This is a very sad truth.
What Joyce Meyer does is reveal what is needed to unleash the power in the Name of Jesus Christ in the lives of believers today -- and that is why this book is so skinny.
The author says that Christianity is packed with non-believing believers. This means that many Christians have accepted Jesus as their Savior, but they have a hard time swallowing the fact that He STILL performs miracles and healings today when His Name is professed by a spirit-filled believer. The people that do believe that God STILL works in the miraculous and supernatural are labeled "charismatics" by the evangelical world. In this sense, the statements in this book are probably not to be welcomed (believed) by certain Christian denominations, and indeed, Joyce Meyer's ministry (Life in the Word) is often a wide target of skepticism...even to the extent of being labeled heretical by some of her more acrimonious critics.
But what many of them fail to see is this: According to the Bible, there IS power in the Name of Jesus, and that God HAS exhalted that Name above all other names. These are not the author's assertions.
This book is all about taking it a step further. She claims that there is an all-encompassing power that God makes available to us today when we begin professing the Name of Christ in faith. And the way we activate the power is so simple, even a child can learn it: We only BELIEVE in FAITH that whatever we ask in Jesus' Name we have. (NOTE: what we ask for must be in accordance with the will of God. So, in other words, don't buy a lottery ticket and ask God for the magic numbers).
Get the book and give it a read. Stop doubting and ask God to reveal His supernatural character to you today, through faith in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We know that God hasn't changed -- only our beliefs have.
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