God can accomplish more in us with one single, finger-tip touch, one singular moment of an encounter in spirit than in thirty years of self-discipline and striving. Just one touch, one tiny tap of His fingertip can close out the world and usher heaven into the soul. There are at least eleven ways God will do that and those ways are outlined here.
When I began in ministry over 30 years ago I was a part time youth pastor. Young people came to Christ and their initial enthusiasm was contagious. One particular young man named Tim relayed a conversation he had with his grandmother who raised him (she was a born again believer). Theirs was a conversation that I found distressing. She told him that becoming a Christian as a great thing and was all wonderful at first, but in awhile the excitement would wear off. She told him to enjoy his zeal for God now because it would not last, that after the initial zeal you just have to work through it for the rest of your life. Tim was concerned that his enthusiasm would lessen as time went on. I helped him understand that God did not work that way and this book tells the how and the why of such a promise.
We can keep that enthusiasm and even see it grow if we regularly experience God's Touch engaging spirit over soul in the inner man. The Holy Spirit regenerating our spirit is one major change that occurs in the human heart at conversion. The spirit is energized by the Holy Spirit and made alive to God in a new way. If that zeal wanes it’s because after time, with unconfessed sin and selfish choices, the soul/self again rises to a place of dominance in the human heart. God seems far again. The heart grows cold. Self has re-seized control and the Lordship of and delight in Christ has become a concept instead of a living reality.
Applying the eleven principles of God’s Touch in this book recharges the spirit and causes the spirit in man indwelt by the Holy Spirit to rise again to the proper place of control in the inner man. In that proper alignment, enthusiasm and zeal once again dominate the horizon of life. That renewal and refreshing experienced in Jesus Christ as completely Lord is my prayer for you.
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God can accomplish more in us with one single, finger-tip touch, one singular moment of an encounter in spirit than in thirty years of self-discipline and striving. Just one touch, one tiny tap of His fingertip can close out the world and usher heaven into the soul. There are at least eleven ways God will do that and those ways are outlined here.
When I began in ministry over 30 years ago I was a part time youth pastor. Young people came to Christ and their initial enthusiasm was contagious. One particular young man named Tim relayed a conversation he had with his grandmother who raised him (she was a born again believer). Theirs was a conversation that I found distressing. She told him that becoming a Christian as a great thing and was all wonderful at first, but in awhile the excitement would wear off. She told him to enjoy his zeal for God now because it would not last, that after the initial zeal you just have to work through it for the rest of your life. Tim was concerned that his enthusiasm would lessen as time went on. I helped him understand that God did not work that way and this book tells the how and the why of such a promise.
We can keep that enthusiasm and even see it grow if we regularly experience God's Touch engaging spirit over soul in the inner man. The Holy Spirit regenerating our spirit is one major change that occurs in the human heart at conversion. The spirit is energized by the Holy Spirit and made alive to God in a new way. If that zeal wanes it’s because after time, with unconfessed sin and selfish choices, the soul/self again rises to a place of dominance in the human heart. God seems far again. The heart grows cold. Self has re-seized control and the Lordship of and delight in Christ has become a concept instead of a living reality.
Applying the eleven principles of God’s Touch in this book recharges the spirit and causes the spirit in man indwelt by the Holy Spirit to rise again to the proper place of control in the inner man. In that proper alignment, enthusiasm and zeal once again dominate the horizon of life. That renewal and refreshing experienced in Jesus Christ as completely Lord is my prayer for you.