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Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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The third in a trilogy of the “Journeys with God” books. This book seeks to bring together the apparent angry God of the Old Testament with the God who is Love of the New Testament. Over many chapters covering many different topics it suggests ways for you and me, the ordinary Christians, to live out our Christian calling to be holy as our Father in heaven is Holy, by filling our daily lives with the Presence of Jesus, by trying to make it our aim to act and re-act as He would in all our daily situations. Whilst insisting on total obedience to God, at the same time the book claims that His love is unconditional. Everything is written in the hope that by spending quiet times with God we will eventually become aware of His constant Presence with us and let that knowledge rule in our lives. =============== ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TERRY was a practising lawyer for 25 years before answering a call into the ordained ministry in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. As a Priest he spent time as a Prison Chaplain as well as a Hospital Chaplain before being appointed to parish ministry. He is now retired from full-time ministry, lives in New Zealand and spends his spare time writing novels. This is Terry’s fourth religious book and he hopes to write at least a few more. =================== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Learning With God, Journeys With God Trilogy, Terry Hayward, Wanderings with God, Coffee With God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Learning, Looking, Practical, Life, Prayer, Truth, Hope, Creation, Spirit, Habit, Work, Self, Everyday, Obedience, Peace, Love, Morals, Surrender, Persevere, Being, Holy, Persecution, Finally, Cross, Sacrifice, Sin,

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LEARNING WITH GOD

Book 3 in the Journeys With God series

Terry Hayward

Author of

Wanderings With God

Coffee With God

God Calls

Think On These Things

Published By

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) without the prior written permission of the publisher or author.

Published in England

Abela Publishing Ltd.

Sandhurst, Berkshire, England

ISBN 13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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First Edition 2018

Acknowledgments

Most of the quotations I’ve used from the Bible in this book are from the First South African edition of the GOOD NEWS BIBLE published in South Africa by the Bible Society of South Africa. Other quotations are from The New International Version of the Bible contained in the programme E-Sword.

Terry Hayward

“Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me because I am gentle and humble in spirit;and you will find rest” (Mt. 11: 29)

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 LEARNING

Chapter 2 LOOKING

Chapter 3 PRACTICAL

Chapter 4 LIFE

Chapter 5 PRAYER

Chapter 6 TRUTH

Chapter 7 CREATION

Chapter 8 SPIRIT

Chapter 9 HABIT

Chapter 10 WORK

Chapter 11 SELF

Chapter 12 EVERYDAY

Chapter 13 OBEDIENCE

Chapter 14 PEACE

Chapter 15 LOVE

Chapter 16 MORALS

Chapter 17 SURRENDER

Chapter 18 PERSEVERE

Chapter 19 BEING

Chapter 20 HOLY

Chapter 21 PERSECUTION

Chapter 22 FINALLY

EPILOGUE

Introduction

I think as this is the third book in my trilogy of “…With God” books, maybe I should have started it with the heading “Epilogue” instead of “Prologue”, but be that as it may, I think I’ll rather end with an Epilogue in the correct place.

In John’s Gospel (7: 28) Jesus asks that most pertinent of questions, “Do you really know me and where I am from?” This is the Good News translation but the NIV translation puts it differently as Jesus states, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from.” This apparent discrepancy of translations comes about because The Good News Bible is trying to give a more accurate meaning than a merely literal translation. I don’t think this really makes much of a difference as in my opinion Jesus is actually challenging the crowd to ask themselves about their beliefs and prejudices. What He’s saying is, “I challenge you to think about me and what you actually believe about me because I think most of you have got it all wrong.”

The purpose of these “…with God” books I’ve written is to help us become aware of Christ’s Presence with us at all times so that we can truly get to know Him and to know exactly what He expects of us as we follow Him. To do this we will have to commit to making time for God because to develop a relationship with Him we will need to ‘find’ Him, even though He is always with us. It is in silence and our quiet times with Him that we will find Him (Is. 30: 15) when we seek Him with all of our hearts (e.g. Jer. 29: 13) and all pour minds.

The primary challenge in this trilogy of books is to ask ourselves if we do really know Him, and whatever our answer, we need to develop a deeper and closer relationship with Him than we started out with. Learning with God is not something we can do one day and then give it a break. God tells us through Jeremiah that we will find Him only when we seek Him with all of our heart. This must be a constant search, and the single-minded purpose of our search must be to find Him and learn with Him because in doing so we must honour Him (Jer. 32: 39).

I really love that small Book of the Bible, Song of Songs, as it is so full of incredibly beautiful snippets that can only increase our joy of Wandering with God. A perfect example of what I’m saying is, “We will be happy together…and lose ourselves in love” (1: 4). All my Christian books have not only the single-minded purpose of honouring God, but also of trying to teach us the unsurpassing joy and security that one can almost physically feel when we lose ourselves in love with Him.

I have tried very hard to get people to find a special place where they will spend their “Coffee with God” quiet times with Him, a place which they will over time come to associate with the Presence of God in a very special way. This can become a place where maybe we will be able to say with the author of the Song of Songs, “My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden” (4: 12), a place where we will experience in a special way the Presence of the Holy Spirit with us where, “North Wind, South Wind, blow on my garden” (4: 16).

Once again I must stress that in order to learn with Him, our Lover, and lose ourselves in Love, we will have to spend plenty of quiet time with Him and do that on a regular basis. We will need to study our Bibles diligently so that we can learn all about His laws and commandments. We will need to seek to understand His will and follow it, all the while being aware that He, “never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what He does” (Ecc. 3: 11).

That our God is a mystery (e.g. Eph. 1: 9), must never be an excuse that will stop us seeking Him with all our heart, because we will find Him when we so search. My hope and prayer is that the “…with God” books will encourage us to get ever closer to Him and never give up on trying to learn His Will.

Chapter 1 Learning

“…Every pupil, when he/she has completed his/her training, will be like his/her teacher” (Lk. 6: 40b) and therefore the whole object in ‘Learning with God’ is for us to become Christ-like, like our Teacher. God said that he would give His people the single-minded purpose of honouring Him and so becoming Christ-like must very simply be the way we hope to honour Him as we seek to learn with God (Jer. 32: 39). This learning, and the consequent training that this will entail, is not something that we can expect to happen overnight, as it will take our entire life to get there, just as learning anything takes time. Jesus, I’m sure, understood this because He had already pointed out that we would need to make some really drastic changes to our lifestyles.

Through Isaiah (54: 13) God gives us the promise that, “I myself will teach your people, and give them prosperity and peace.” And then Jesus builds on this promise in John’s Gospel when He gives us the assurance that all those taught by God “and learns from Him comes to me” (6: 45). That is why I feel it is so important that we open ourselves up to Learn with God so that we can come to Jesus!

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