Kris Vallotton - The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness: Discover How to Escape Your Prison of Pain and Unlock a Life of Freedom

PRAISE FOR

Its one thing to read a moving story of betrayal, forgiveness and recovery, but quite another to watch it unfold before your eyes. Such is the role Ive had with the Vallotton family since the day their world collapsed. This great family got just what they didnt deserve. The unbelievable pain was paralyzing. Yet turn after turn, they moved redemptively and discovered Gods goodness in a new way. The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness gives us exactly what we need: honesty, inspiration and insight to enable us to understand the process to health and recovery. Both Jason and Kris have an unusual gift to communicate through writing. This is a much-needed book in the library of every believer.

Bill Johnson

Senior Leader of Bethel Church

Redding, California

Jason Vallotton, along with his father, Kris Vallotton, are laying the foundation to incredible freedom and joy in their book The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness. This book is unashamedly honest and challenges you to look at your own heart with the same honesty. We completely believe this book will set the captives free and heal the brokenhearted! It not only teaches you how to forgive but also how to walk it out and see it through to completion in your life. The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness will bring greater intimacy with the Father to every heart that embraces it.

Kim Walker-Smith and Skyler Smith

Jesus Culture

In The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness, Jason vulnerably exposes his story of devastating betrayal and how he wrestled for true forgiveness. This book holds the potential for the Great Comforter to come and release you from the agonizing pain that you have buried inside your own heart and bring you to a place of joy and destiny in which you actually reap a harvest in the area the enemy endeavored to destroy. I want to honor this man of God for his transparency before the body of Christ, which will serve to lead readers into a place of true freedom.

Ch Ahn

Senior Pastor, HROCK Church, Pasadena, California

President, Harvest International Ministry

International Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute

Through a moving story of experiencing a personal betrayal in a marriage, Kris and Jason Vallotton show how God can enable us to move beyond the hurt and desire for revenge to attain real emotional freedom and a reconciliation with those who have wronged us.

David Aikman

Bestselling Author of Jesus in Beijing

Former TIME Magazine Journalist

The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness is much more than a set of principles, a fresh Bible study or even a powerful testimony. This book is a piece of the Vallotton familys heart. In a beautiful context and style, Kris and Jason pen some of the most painful experiences of their lives. The unique approach of this book on forgiveness is the paradigm in which they lived the unfolding events. I encourage anyone seeking to learn a supernatural response to betrayal, offense or broken relationships to read this book and be forever changed.

Danny Silk

Author of Culture of Honor and Loving Our Kids on Purpose

We are all on a journey in this life, and we each have a story to tell. Our stories include everything, whether it is good, bad or ugly. When we engage with one another, we learn how to walk in each others shoes. The testimonies we hear give us power to do the same things with the same results. I know Jasons story. I have a similar journey. I appreciate anyone who can turn pain into a radical process of becoming like Jesus.

It is in the valley that our lives are truly adjusted to the pleasures of God. On the mountain we have sovereign encounters with majesty and beauty, and then we must return to the scene of the devastation and begin to plant what God has sowed into us. This is where we encounter the incomparable delight of the Comforter, who steps into our devastation with His own gracious touch and renovates us from the inside out.

Forgiveness that is etched in grace creates a lifestyle of loving that is powerful, releasing and effective. All who read this book will be changed, because they will be drawn into the story of Jesus walking with beauty in the fields of pain.

Graham Cooke

Author, Speaker and Publisher

No matter how much youve needed to forgive, this story will challenge you to forgive even more. Here is an astounding retelling of Gods empowering forgiveness. If you find most books on forgiveness theoretical and legalistic (as I do), this book will stir you to actively walk in the very forgiveness of God. Only the Holy Spirit can bring about this kind of story!

Steve Sjogren

Church Planter and Pastor

Author of Conspiracy of Kindness

THE SUPERNATURAL
POWER OF FORGIVENESS

2011 Kris Vallotton and Jason Vallotton

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Chosen edition published 2014

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Previously published by Regal Books

Ebook edition originally created 2013

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I (Jason) dedicate this book to my loving children. The reality that each of you has been handed has been more than grieving to my heart. And though I have given my all to protect you from the carnality of this world, I somehow know that you will advance from these turbulent places, far beyond where I could have ever launched you.

John Adams said that people and nations are forged in the fires of adversity, and there are no truer words in my life than these. You kids are the jewels of my heart, and you were most often the reason why I stayed the course during the toughest of times. I pray that someday my lifes work and convictions will make your greatest dreams possible. As a father, I couldnt be more proud of any children. You each have weathered the storms and have become amazing representations of Gods masterpiece