Here is a sample for the uninitiated reader: “I’m not writing to calm or coddle you. With God’s help, I intend to incite a riot in your mind. Trip your breakers and turn out the lights in your favorite hiding places of insecurity and fear. Then flip the switch back on so that God’s truth can illuminate the divine destiny that may have been lying dormant inside you for years. In short, I’m out to activate your audacious faith. To inspire you to ask God for the impossible. And in the process, to reconnect you with your God-sized purpose and potential.”
The chapters of this book are as follows:
1. Welcome to Audacious Faith
2. Prayer That Stops the Sun
3. Page 23 Vision
4. The Sun Stand Still Lexicon
5. Ignite the Ordinary
6. Wave Jumper
7. Tiny Babies, Giant Faith
8. The Surcharge of Sacrifice
9. The Simplest Systematic Theology Ever
10. Hear. Speak. Do.
11. The Solid Ground of Audacious Faith
12. Mistake into Miracle
13. When the Sun Goes Down
14. Pray Like a Juggernaut
15. Permission to Pray Practically
16. Sweet Southern Audacity
17. Push While You Pray
18. From the Promise to the Payoff
19. Ten Dimensions of a Sun Stand Still Prayer
20. In the Middle of a Move of God
The theme of this book is presented seamlessly from start to finish and pivots around Joshua’s Sun Stand Still prayer and the Page 23 vision from Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (written by Pastor Jim Cymbala).
Along the way through this book, the author managed to sneak-in theology in his characteristic lingo. So, just when you thought that Christian literature has peaked, Pastor Furtick is pushing the limits and expanding the boundaries of writings in Christendom.
Here are just some examples of the theology-simplified:
• Hearing the Word initiates faith. Speaking the Word activates faith. Doing the Word demonstrates faith.
• Twelve Audacious Faith Confessions:
1. I am full forgiven and free from all shame and condemnation.
(Romans 8:1-2; Ephesians 1:7-8; 1 John 1:9).
2. I act in audacious faith to change the world in my generation.
(Joshua 10:12-14; John 14:12).
3. I have no fear of anxiety; I trust in the LORD with all my heart.
(Proverbs 3:5-6; Philippians 4:6-7; 1 Peter 5:7).
• Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God’s abilities. …
Two of my favourite excerpts are as follows:-
“How did God choose to accomplish the redemption of the world? By His grace – and through the willingness of Jesus to sacrifice His life. How will God accomplish the impossible vision He has planted in your heart? By His grace – and through your willingness to sacrifice your life for the sake of Jesus. I’m not suggesting that you’ve got to work really, really hard for God to work in you. That’s heresy. Grace is something God works in you. And by that grace, He works faith out of you.”
“Your vision should never be limited to who you are or what you think you can do. The size of your vision isn’t even determined by who God is. The scope and impact of your vision will be determined by who you believe God is – and whether you have the courage to respond accordingly. If you’re going to have a Page 23 vision and Sun Stand Still prayers, you’ve got to have the right idea about who God is to you and what He wants to do through you.”
Read this book and feel the excitement of living in the Kingdom of God as Pastor Furtick narrates his real life encounters and firm grasp of theology in his down-to-earth let’s-get-going style. Blessed reading!
STEVEN FURTICK is the founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, named by Outreach magazine as one of the top ten fastest growing chruches in the nation.
Learn more about the Sun Stand Still Movement at www.sunstandstill.org
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• The Ink Room
• SKS Book Warehouse
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