Walking with God
Talk to Him. Hear from Him. Really.
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4.7 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“This is a series of stories of what it looks like to walk with God, over the course of about a year.”
So begins a remarkable narrative of one man’s journey learning to hear the voice of God. The details are intimate and personal. The invitation is for us all. What if we could hear from God . . . often? What difference would it make?
We have a lot to sort through on any given day. A whole lot to navigate over the course of a week or a month. Am I in the right place? The right relationships? How am I going to come up with enough money to do the things I want to do? And what about love—is this the one? Will it last? What is causing all those fears I keep pushing down inside? Why can’t I overcome those “habits” that look more and more like addictions? Am I at the right church? Should I even go to church? What is God doing in my life?
All day long we are making choices. It adds up to an enormous amount of decisions in a lifetime. How do we know what to do?
We have two options.
We can trudge through on our own, doing our best to figure it all out.
Or, we can walk with God. As in, learn to hear his voice. Really. We can live life with God. He offers to speak to us and guide us. Every day. It is an incredible offer. To accept that offer is to enter into an adventure filled with joy and risk, transformation and breakthrough. And more clarity than we ever thought possible.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For bestselling evangelical author Eldredge (Wild at Heart), Christians are meant to inherit the kind of intimacy that Adam and Eve had with God in the Garden of Eden, but the belief that God only speaks through the Bible hinders a Christian's ability to experience that intimacy. Drawing from a year's worth of journaling about his "walk with God," Eldredge models how talking to God is as easy as checking daily to ask, "What are you saying, Lord?" Sometimes when Eldredge queries God, God's response confounds him. For example, when God responds repeatedly with two words, "My love," it takes an accident and a personal epiphany for Eldredge to understand that God wants him to "rebuild personality based on love." Through everyday life lessons, personal anecdotes and a lot of scripture, Eldredge shows how Christians can get into direct conversation with God, encouraging readers to ask for answers about anything and everything. Eldredge's story (as opposed to chapter) format is supposed to better help readers "to pause along the way at those points where God is speaking to you," but it results in a lack of real organization and may make it difficult for readers to uncover an overarching theme in the course of a section.
Customer Reviews
Wow.
I have only been a Christian for a little over 3 years, but I was already at the point of resigning myself to boredom and duty. Then, I stumbled across this book.
John helps to clear away a lot of the religious fog and nonsense with this and his other books. He has been such an inspiration to me as I try to navigate this world, my marriage and the Christian life, and this book has been a huge help.
You truly can walk with God throughout the day, and John is gracious enough to open his life to show us how it can be done. This book is instructional, and funny, and at times emotionally raw and so real. I cannot give it the praise it deserves. Thank you Lord for giving us John and his ministry!