Book Reviews | Thanks to Barry Oliff (Baz) for providing these books reviews. |
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| Ed Silvoso
| That None Should Perish
| How to reach entire cities for Christ through Prayer.
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| Mahesh & Bonnie Chavda
| Watch of the Lord
| A modern day version of the Charismatic movement from it’s latter day beginnings in 1986 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to the powerful movement it is today in the USA and spreading around the world as it’s message of faith and love is expounded by people to whom God’s message has been personally revealed:
“If you know the gift of God……… you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water………. Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.” John 4:10,14.
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| Derek Prince
| Fasting
| A lost key to successful Christian living that is found throughout the Bible has been set aside and misplaced by the Church of today. That key is Fasting
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| Derek Eastman
| Love on it’s knees
| There is a great spiritual battle going on in the world! Your prayers, therefore, are needed as ‘compassionate warfare’ against spiritual forces of wickedness. When you make the decision to become an intercessor, you become God’s spiritual warrior, receiving power to fight effectively through prayer for the entire world - your family, other nations, the Church – to realize God’s ultimate objective: Christ’s Kingdom fully established.
“Behold, I give you the authority to trample serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you”.
Luke 10:19 – NKJV
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| Charles & Frances Hunter (As told by Roland Buck)
| Angels on Assignment
| God is illuminating truths of the Bible in unprecedented ways prior to the return of Jesus. Revelations are being brought forth in all ministries flowing in the Spirit. In this revelation, God quickened my spirit to John 16: 12 – 15 “Oh there is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t understand it now. When the Holy Spirit, who is truth, comes, he shall guide you into all truth, for he will not be presenting his own ideas, but will be passing on to you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.” (TLB)
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| Jim W Goll
| Kneeling on the Promises
| The prayer movement has grown throughout the 1980s and 90s. Whereas churches did not have prayer rooms and ministries when we started teaching on intercession, there are numerous ones today. That is why this book “Kneeling on the Promises” is so strategic in it’s importance. It deals with prophetic intercession – praying God’s will into the earth.
I invite you to take a journey into the realm of intercession………………. Open the pages of this book and drink deeply of it’s revelation. You will come away from it refreshed, encouraged, challenged and nearer to God than you have been. See also entries No. 9 and 23
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| Ed Silvoso
| Prayer Evangelism
| Nothing is more extraordinary than being born again – that instant when we turned from Darkness to Light and saw Jesus with his arms extended towards us. We all remember the moment when we crossed the threshold from death to life, when we learned that our names had been written in the Book of Life by God Himself. All other events in life pale in comparison.
Once we have experienced this rebirth, we want everybody else to have the same experience. We want to see our loved ones come to Jesus. We want strangers who live in foreign lands to know him. The Holy Spirit of God who now dwells within us has put this desire in our hearts. see also No. 1
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| Dutch Sheets
| Intercessionary Prayer
| Someone said, “To err is human, to repeat it is stupid.” I’m sure I’ve even qualified for that once or twice…………………….. Because I know why!!
If, on the other hand, John Wesley was correct when he said, “God does nothing on the earth save in answer to believing prayer,” I’ll lose a little sleep for that. I’ll change my lifestyle for that. I’ll even turn the TV off, and maybe miss a meal or two.
Does a sovereign, all-powerful God need our involvement or not? Is prayer really necessary?
This book gives you some answers
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| Jim W Goll
| “Father Forgive Us!” Freedom from yesterday’s sin
| This is a richly anointed book that clearly and beautifully expresses the Father’s heart. It calls us to let go of our self-centred focus on attaining the glorious promises of God and to obediently lay down our lives, giving ourselves wholly to follow him in the line of His priorities, which lead to an eventual glory that covers the earth and affects all people……………… Amen to the Author’s recognition of the necessity for daily confession and repentance to cleanse our own hearts.
We applaud the Author’s insistence that we then go beyond ourselves to sensitively identify with others as we cofess and repent of Corporate sins and intercede for the world that “our” sin not block “our” father God’s promises. See also No 6
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| edited by Robert Backhouse
| Spurgeon on Revival
| True revival is God’s will for us, though it is a mistake to think – as some Christian’s claim – that if specific spiritual formulae are worked out, and if certain spiritual laws are followed, then God will inevitably pour out dramatic blessings in the form of revival. One way to escape from misusing the Bible and merely going to it for ‘proof texts’ is to remember that a ‘text out of context is a pretext.’ In other words, we need to study the Bible’s teaching on revival in the context in which the Bible places revival. In these edited sermons of Spurgeon we discover that this so-called ‘uneducated’ country preacher is a past master at expounding the verses which come before and after specific verses about revival. He does not take isolated ‘golden texts’ on revival and chop them off from their context. By carefully noting the context in which God’s teaching about revival is revealed to us in the pages of the Bible, our understanding and experience of revival are greatly deepened and broadened.
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| Quin Sherrer & Ruthanne Garlock
| The Spiritual Warrior’s Prayer Guide
| The Apostle Paul wrote the most complete training manual for Spiritual Warriors’ found in Scripture:
“…..be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the Devil’s scheme. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms…………………….
………………..Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Saints.”
Ephesians 6: 10-18.
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| Nicky Gumbel
| The Heart of Revival
| This book is one of many that are follow-ups to the “Alpha” courses that have been running in churches for several years. Most of the books that follow up the “Alpha” courses concentrate on the New |Testament, thi book concentrates on a specific section of the Old Testament, Isaiah 40-66
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| Lance Lambert
| Watch and Pray
| This book deals with corporate prayer. The principle of corporate prayer is ‘Togetherness’, or to use another word, ‘Mutuality’.
The right kind of prayer time has an order and a design and a togetherness and a harmony. If our Lord is in the midst and, by His Spirit is showing us His mind, there will be a purpose and an end and a design and a harmony and a togetherness in that time.
We will never be perfect. The best of us will get it wrong at times; but nevertheless we should be seeing the design and the harmony.
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| Steve Hawthorne & Graham Kendrick
| Awaking our cities for God -
A Guide to prayer walking.
| Prayer walking fits the restless culture of the nineties. Let’s face it. It’s hard to pray for your city while imagining it from a ‘Prayer Closet’. We need the exercise, and we need to see what is really going on.
Authors Steve and Graham are veterans involved in the four strategies mentioned [in this book]. They have given us a book filled with inspiration and wisdom, but above alleles, it is practical. It is a book that gives us the big picture but anchors everything in the possibilities of daily life. Every life can be an adventure. After all, what matters is not our dream or our journey but who walks with us on the road. Jesus is beckoning right now. Come on, - let’s follow him.
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| Hugh B Black
| Christian Fundamentals
| The first part of this book deals with the individual and his needs in the realms of Salvation, baptism in the Spirit and Deliverance. The second part focuses on the outflow of the life of God to meet the needs of others through Vocal, Hidden, and Open Power Ministries, all of which are analysed. The end times are the subject of the final part.
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| Ian Christiansen
| Answered Prayer is God’s Will for You
| This book is a prescription for prayerlessness. It is a thought proking and challenging pursuit of a subject that is central to our Christian faith.
Individual believers, as well as congregations, are being called today to pray more. It is God’s way in this last decade of the century to prepare us for a spiritual awakening.
“………………….. To those who find they are too busy to pray remember Jesus’ words to Martha: “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed…………………” Luke 10:41-2.
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| Derek Prince
| Spiritual Warfare
| For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies – the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty Satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the Spirit World. See also no 3
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| Philip Crummy
| City of Victory
| This is the story of Colchester – Britain’s first recorded town.
“…….One reason why Colchester is such a rewarding place to study is it’s association with famous people of the past. Claudius, Boudica, Cunobelin, Caractacus, Edward the Elder and Athelston are some of the major historical figures associated with the Town’s history. The first three in particular are key players. Under Cunobelin, Colchester became the major settlement in South East Britain
(If it were not so already)………………
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| Norman Grubb
| Rees Howells “Intercessor”
| “………….Beyond Measure, large hearted, irrepressible in the joy of the Lord which poured out of him (“The Spirit is full of jokes,” he once daringly said), this man of God, who bore on his heart the world’s deep suffering and sin ‘till it broke him, could have told his own tale with so much more vividness than we could ever put into it; but may God reveal, even through these pages, Himself through the veil of human flesh, through a man “changed into the same image from glory to glory, ever as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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| Smith Wigglesworth
| Faith
| Smith Wigglesworth was called ‘The Apostle of Faith’ because absolute trust in God was a constant theme of both his life and his messages. In his meetings, he would quote passages from the Word of God and lead lively singing to help build up people’s faith and encourage them to act on it. He emphasized belief in the fact that God could do the impossible. He had great faith in what God could do, and God did great things through him.
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