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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
Although there is a lot of advice in this book about how to ‘do’ your quiet time with God, it definitely is not a sort of DIY work on meditation or prayer. It was written in the hope that it would be a help in not only developing our own prayer life, but also of becoming aware that God is with us all the time, not just during our Prayers, or our Coffee with God. Paul tells us to Pray at all times and the intention of this book is to help us understand what this means and then apply that to our everyday life. The aim of this book is to help each one of us to understand exactly what it is that God wants of us and then to do it by coming into such a deep relationship with Him. In the book we will look into many subjects all of which are in a way related to each other and so the different subjects are really only chapters dealing with one subject matter, notably our walk with God by making Him assume prime place in our lives. Let me make myself clear at the outset that although I’m no expert in “Christian Spirituality”, I do I invite you not to just ignore my suggestions, but to at least give them a chance and thereafter feel free to make up your own mind about them. The book is wide-ranging in an effort to show that nothing falls outside of our walk with Him but all of them can and will lead to an awareness of the Presence of God. Terry Hayward ================= ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Terry Hayward is a retired Anglican (Episcopalian) Priest who previously practised law in Durban, South Africa, for 25 years during the Apartheid era. He is married to Rita and the two now live in New Zealand with their daughter, son in law and two of their grandchildren. Their son was a game ranger in Zululand for 15 years and married a Canadian who is also deeply into conservation. The family have always had a deep love for conservation and that is where the inspiration for this and Terry’s other books stems from. ================= KEYWORDS/TAGS: Coffee with God, Terry Hayward, DIY, Christian, Walk, God, will, Jesus, people, life, need, love, faith, believe, good, prayer, Pray, give, Paul, Bible, Christ, wife, John, Holy Spirit, person, needs, , Presence, church, man, old, learn, live, children, experience, family, money, relationship meditation, encounter, Lord, Corinthians, , without desire, honour, honor, verse, woman, obedience, Father, Law, heaven, poor, silence, solitude, , test, attitude, husband, advice, purpose, Power, peace, ministry, achieve, created, divorce, Africa, self, Scripture, prophet, beautiful, disciples, Testament, salvation, obedient, spouse, Judas, gift, sin, marriage,, nature, Psalm, Romans,, opportunity, calling, provide, Gospel, Peter, conversion, New Zealand, bodies, body, Temple, tithe, content, Daniel, chosen, submit, warning, , Moses, Cross, faithful, temptation, Israelites, Samaritan, Lord, Ephesians, search, Biblical, Prison, oil, disobedience, Wanderings
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Coffee With God
We rejoice because of what God has donethrough our Lord Jesus Christ,Who has now made us God’s friends.
COFFEE WITH GOD
Copyright © 2018 Terry Hayward
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Abela Publishing Ltd.
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ISBN13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X
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Acknowledgements
All Biblical quotations are from the First South African Edition of the GOOD NEWS BIBLE (Unless otherwise specified) published in South Africa by the Bible Society of South Africa.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the Glory of God
and with grateful thanks to Him.
Foreword
As I write this foreword, I am reminded about my response to Terry when he mentioned that his book Wanderings with God was complete and submitted to his publisher. I had just submitted my own doctoral thesis in which I had tried to make meaning of my spiritual journey including my call to the ordained ministry. I joked and said well perhaps your next book should be about wandering about God’s Call. Well, here it is and I should have known that Terry would take up that challenge and I am pleased to write this foreword.
Terry has a deep passion for God and God‘s people. I am one of at least four people who was encouraged and guided by Terry as we discerned God’s call on our lives which for most us led to a deeper relationship with God and eventual ordination into the priesthood. I wrestled with my discernment of God’s call as a woman worshipping in an Anglican Church, in Southern Africa, in the early nineties for whom ordination to the priesthood had not been realised. I then was faced with moving home and parish amidst this turmoil. I joined the parish where Terry, a loving, caring yet challenging priest, welcomed my family and I as parishioners. He was also able to guide me through the pains of responding to God’s call as a woman, wife, chemistry lecturer and mother in the only ‘coloured’ family in a parish and diocese which was still undergoing transformation due to the legacies of the Apartheid system and the ordination of women as priests.
Terry’s life and the influence and impact of the four words, trust, love, honour and obey captured in this book, have been a living testament to me, and I am sure to many others, of how we can respond to God’s call on our life. The reality of the contradictions, denials and tensions we face in discerning and responding to God’s call are dealt with in a sincere and meaningful manner.
May this book help to strengthen your relationship as a Christian. As you read this book may you be willing and ready to deepen your relationship with God whom you love, with your neighbour whom you love and with yourself created and called by God in and to love.
Revd. Dr. Delysia TimmPriest-in-Charge, Parish of All Saints, BellairDiocese of Natal, South Africa.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
Preparations
Getting Started
Next Step
Meditation
Conversion
Living Prayer
Go Tell
Contentment
Do You Love Me?
Childlike Faith
Obedience
Work
Marriage
Riches
Giving
Solitude
Encounter
God Calling
Faithfulness
Epilogue – The DIY Christian
Prologue
The Creation story is one that can be so full of meaning to us in oh so many ways. We hear there in the very first chapter (v. 31) that when God created us, you and me, we were created in His image, and He saw that it was very good. At first man and woman lived in peace and harmony, not just with nature, our surroundings and with each other, but also with God Himself. At that time we are told that they walked with God and talked with God, and that the human condition was in fact good – man and woman still had only goodness in them, or should I say they were in possession of a good core to their beings (Gen. 1: 25). This time in creation is known or symbolized by paradise and the Garden of Eden.
Unfortunately, then came the fall when we, both man and woman, listened to the lies of the devil and tried to become ‘like God’, forgetting that we were already made ‘in His image – made like Him’. This was the time when we invited into us the growth of a life of thorns, toil and pain that we had condemned ourselves to, in place of the inherent peace that God had wanted for us. Suddenly this ‘good core’ of light that was born deep within us was covered up by a hard core of darkness as we developed our feelings of greed, jealousy, hatred, resentment, envy and the like. This succeeded in covering the inner core, which nevertheless still remains there deep within each one of us, to the extent that our hard outer core became the way of life (Gen. 3: 1 – 24), and what today the Church refers to as ‘original sin’.
This new place we now find ourselves living in is, like paradise, a reality where most of us are quite content to live and move and have our being, basically because we have chosen the forbidden sins of the flesh and the devil to replace our natural spiritual tranquility. We have been led to believe that sin is much more fun than walking with God because we feel He is not fun. But in order to reduce this pain that comes with this new lifestyle, we have had to build this hard layer to hide the good inner core as we go about our daily lives.
Like the workman who develops hard callouses on his hands to protect the more delicate flesh underneath, over time we too have developed a similar hard outer core covering our good inner core, we pretend to protect us from hurt. This hardened outer layer represents our inbuilt resistance to the suffering we have condemned ourselves to through our wayward lifestyle, it’s what we’d call our ‘built in’ defence mechanism. And so we have tended to choose a life of sin instead of a holy life, because it’s more fun and enjoyable, in fact it’s simply easier to follow than to search for a way back to the true inner good core.
Now we live our lives on the surface of our being where our inbred distaste of pain is in a constant war with our longing for the ‘good life’ and this conflict keeps us cut off from our deep good core, cut off from the Garden of Eden, which is still hidden there deep within each of us. By our own folly we were evicted from the Garden of Eden and now an angel with flaming sword prevents us from re-entering the garden.
But thanks be to God, because He did not leave us as orphans, but He came down Himself to live amongst us and be one of us to teach each of us that we can still go back and walk with, and talk with, God (Eph. 2: 6 - 12). My hope and prayer is that this little book will help each one of us to develop our relationship with our God to that extent we too will be aware of Him with us at all times and thereby enabled to re-enter into that subdued good core within us.
My wife and I recently spent some months in Canada with our son, daughter-in-law and new granddaughter. Probably my greatest memory of that trip was of our new little baby girl when she saw us each morning for the first time after she woke up. Her happy screech of recognition was filled with unsuppressed joy and was just too beautiful for words. It well nigh broke my heart when we had to leave. When we returned home, our two grandchildren here in New Zealand who are both much older, but still very much children, were more shy in their excitement to see us again, yet their barely restrained joy at being re-united with us was equally memorable and welcoming. All three of our grandchildren’s attitudes reminded me very much of Nathaniel, who also expressed his heartfelt joy in meeting Jesus (Jn. 1: 49), and in whom we too found nothing false – their out and out, undisguised love for us was so real, almost tangible and unspoiled that we were both left in no doubt as to their true feelings for us.
Life is a journey and the final destination is what Paul repeatedly refers to as ‘union’ with Christ as we enter into eternal life with Jesus and the Father. This means that the route to that end must be making God take first place in everything in our lives. When we travel we mostly have a final destination, and we would usually have a map or some set of instructions on how to get there. In our life’s journey the map, or directions, is the Bible and this will undoubtedly lead us down many exciting, and sometimes even boring, roads. We will also find little detours along the way which might or might not aid our journey, they might be only of scenic interest, but at all times we must not forget our ultimate destination, which is simply unity with Christ.
At times it will seem that God (our destination) is incalculable miles away or that we have even lost our way, but always our map, the Bible, will be there if we will just pause awhile to seek directions. We need to remember that all the gifts that God bestows on us during our lifetime are not our final destination, in fact they’re not even necessary to help us on our way; they are only gifts and not God Himself. God is all that matters and although God wants us to be happy and enjoy our lives on the journey (Jn. 10: 10), like Jesus we must never take our eyes off the destination, union with God!
Jesus attended parties and also was confronted by evil on His journey, yet as He walked this earth His eyes were at all times firmly fixed on His Father. He made sure He spent quality time with His Father so as to keep His eyes firmly on His destination. My prayer is that this little book will assist you in becoming aware that He is with you every step of the way as you journey to that final destination to God Himself. God is very much in all those gifts, including the gift of being aware of His Presence with you at all times. But these gifts He continuously showers on us must never be confused with the Giver. Let us always keep in mind that God alone is our final destination, and be aware of Him with us at all times.
Let’s now move on into the main contents of this little book, keeping in mind at all times the words of that beautiful old hymn, “Jesus I have promised” (with thanks to author J.E. Bode), with just one or two minor changes made by me for the purpose of this book:
“O Jesus I have promised to follow to the end,Be Thou ever with me, my Master and my Friend.I’ll not fear the battle if You be by my side,Nor wonder from the pathway,If you will be my Guide.”
Preparations
I chose the picture on the cover of this book (because I like it!) but mainly because it is a reminder to me, and I hope it will be a reminder to you too, that all too often we are too quick, with our cup of coffee still unfinished in our hand, to leave our quiet time to get on with some work. I suffer from a work ethic that makes me feel that if I’m not up and about and actually doing things, I’m not actually working. What I really need more than anything else is to spend more time with God, enjoying my coffee with Him, rather than always being in a rush to get out and ‘do’. One of the purposes in my writing this book was to try to convince both me and you to take time out and sit with our God over a cup of coffee, and at the same time come to realise that these coffee times with Him are not a waste of time when we could be out there in the world where we need to do things. After all Jesus Himself often found it necessary to take time out to be with His Father and so He would often go off alone to spend quality time with God (e.g. Mt. 14: 23).
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollst?ndigen Ausgabe!
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