Review: Need to be encouraged, challenged?  This is the book for you.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2014
This devotional book with 40 days of Bible verses and teaching, will  encourage as well as challenge you, and you will be  changed.  Kathi hits on well known and used as well as not so known and uses them to challenge us in our walk with God.  She does not hold back, sugar coat, or make it 'politically correct' but gives it to us directly.The challenge starts off with this verse from Exodus 7:7And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to PharoahWe can learn much from this, including age is just a number.  Moses was 80 and Aaron 83 when God chose to send them back to speak with Pharoah on His behalf.  In each teaching there is something for everyone, some touching more deeply and challenging us to look more closely at ourselves  This also gives us a great starting point for the journey we are about to start, and I love her closing of this first chapter:"So wherever you are today and whatever is going on in your life, listen for God's voice.  He just may call out to you from the burning bush and send you forth on the greatest mission ever."  pg. 7We have started on the journey, now what?  What if we don't like what He asks of us, or where He leads?The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.” Exodus 14:14  NASB"God calls us to prayer and obedience, not whining and second-guessing."  pg. 8Pretty straightforward teaching, wouldn't you say?!And this is just the beginning.  I don't want to give it all away to you but let me share just a few of the teachings that hit me as I have never seen it said in such a way.Deuternonomy 11:7 NASBbut your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.I often question how the Israelites could so quickly complain about things they faced, after all God had just done for them, so this was a real eye opening passage for me."Like the Israelites of old, we must not allow ourselves to be drawn away by false gods-and the world is full of them!  or be lulled by our egos into thinking we've accomplised anything through our own efforts."Pg. 18, 192 Timothy 3:10,11But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,  persecutions, afflictions...what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.If we keep our eyes on Him and follow Him, He will see us through.  We must have nothing and no one before Him in our lives."There's no room on the throne for two; only Jesus has earned the right to sit there." pg. 20We will be taken on a tour of old testament and new testament verses and reminded of our first love, what He requires of us and more.  This is a great book for new Christians as well as for mature Christians, as it has something for everyone.  Pick it up today, take the journey for yourself and see where it takes you.I was given this ebook by bookfun.org in exchange for an honest review.