David Jeremiah - A life beyond amazing : 9 decisions that will transform your life today

A Life Beyond Amazing

2017 David P. Jeremiah

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To David and Barbara Green.
Your lives are beyond amazing.

CONTENTS

At two oclock on Sunday afternoon, January 8, 2017, a giant fell to the earth, causing the ground to tremble like a palsied hand. One of the best-known giant sequoias, the Pioneer Cabin Tree, collapsed amid California storms. Pioneer Cabin, so named because its hollowed interior was big enough for a home, had pointed upward a thousand years. She was majestic to behold. But her core was gone, her limbs were brittle, her roots were shallow, and only a few branches still clung to life. When lashed by wind and water, the big tree tottered and tumbled and shattered on impact. Her millennium was over.

Many of us are also teetering and tottering, never knowing when the next storm will come. We want to be rooted and solida testimony to our Creator. But often we feel hollow, shallow rooted, with no strong core.

What if I told you that you can change all this, that you can weather the storms of life with an inner strength and confidence youve imagined but never felt? What if I told you that you can experience the kind of joy that will change the world around you, and the kind of peace that brings serenity and calmness sweeter than any youve known?

And what if I told you the cost for achieving all of this is free, available to all, and that this special offer will never expire?

Interested?

In this book I share with you how to achieve all that I have described and more. In these pages I show you the path to a life beyond amazing.

No matter who you are, how old, how rich or poor, how tired, disappointed, lonely, or hopelessyou can follow this path. No matter what difficulty and pain life has dealt you, or what riches and opportunities you feel it hasnt, this path is for you.

This book is about character. Its about how we develop the character that Christ wants for us, that God makes us capable of achieving, and that the Holy Spirit is always, always ready to guide us to. I want to help you develop character qualities beyond the norm. I want to show you how to build a life beyond amazing, and, in so doing, make an impact beyond imagination.

SET FEAR ASIDE

You dont need fear anymore. You need new hope, new strength, and new understanding. You need a fresh start on a new path.

And what does our world need? Our world needs solid-to-the-core people with unimpaired grit and unimpeded godliness. The church needs a rekindling of the nine traits that go to the core of character and are called the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:2223. God wants us to be people of love and joy and peace. He wants to build endurance into our lives and instill in us compassion for those who need our help. He is ready to bestow the qualities of championsgenerosity, integrity, humility, and self-discipline.

People with those qualities are saints for all seasons.

They are people like Jesus.

This book is a manual on how to develop these qualities. You alone can make the decision to pursue this life, and if you do, I promise you will not be alone. Not ever.

The qualities of a life beyond amazing are produced within us by the Holy Spirit. It is His love, joy, peace, endurance, compassion, generosity, integrity, humility, and self-discipline you seek. These qualities represent the essence of the personality of Jesus Himself. When the Spirit of Christ comes to live within us, He reproduces Himself, putting these traits at our core so we can achieve godly character. Our first step, then, is our commitment to Christ and our willingness to grow in understanding of how the Holy Spirit works in us.

ITS UP TO YOU

This is a life-changing choice. Yes, you will have almighty help, but the work will still be up to you. These nine qualities require commitment and effort. Think of them as representing nine decisions that will transform your life if you take them seriously. And if you do take them seriously, you will start a journey that will not leave you as the same person you are today.

The same Bible that describes love as a fruit of the Spirit also commands us to love one another, to clothe ourselves with love, and to walk in love. The same New Testament that calls joy a by-product of the Spirit also tells us to rejoice in the Lord always and to be of good cheer.

Lots of extra joy doesnt sound so difficult, does it? Plenty of love to fill your heart and your life is the kind of commitment youre more than ready to make, right?

That depends. None of what I will share with you is beyond your reach... unless you try it alone, without the spiritual support Jesus makes available to us. That spiritual support will sustain you when what Im asking you to do feels like more than you can handle, much less achieve. I will tell you how to access that support and how you will be uplifted for any challenge when you do. Because if you take this path and do this work, you will have help. Not just any help, you will have the help of the Holy Spirit every step of the way. And nothing, truly nothing, is more powerful than that.

In John 10:10, the Lord said, I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. The abundant life is solid to the core, fruitful to the end, and amazing to experience. It is the biblical norm for Gods people.

In Philippians 2:13, we read: It is God who works in you