Samuel Rodriguez - Shake Free: How to Deal with the Storms, Shipwrecks, and Snakes in Your Life

If you desire God to influence the way you think, live, and lead, then read Shake Free. I love the challenge given by Samuel Rodriguez when he calls us to trust God in life by pursuing plan GGods plan for us! He writes, He is your plan A, plan B, plan Cthere can be no other plan. Each of us needs this encouragement. Reading Shake Free not only will help you to be released from the things that bind you today but also will prepare you to enter the future that God has for you.

D R. R ONNIE F LOYD , senior pastor of Cross Church and president of the National Day of Prayer

It is not always outside forces preventing us from excelling in the ways God intended. Sometimes our own insecurities and fears hinder us from reaching our greatest potential. In his new book, Shake Free, Sam Rodriguez will help you break free of emotional, mental, and spiritual burdens in your life. This book is necessary for all those who are ready to take back control of their lives!

D E V ON F RANKLIN , producer and New York Times best-selling author

In Shake Free Samuel Rodriguez explains that Gods way is not just the best way; its the only way. I believe that God has uniquely gifted him to be a voice to our world at this time. This book not only communicates Gods heart for youit will change your life!

R OBERT M ORRIS , founding senior pastor of Gateway Church and best-selling author of The Blessed Life and The God I Never Knew

Samuel Rodriguez is a man of God I believe everyone needs to hear. His latest book, Shake Free, captures his heart to see people experience freedom and fulfillment. Read this book and begin living a life of strength and security that overcomes every challenge you face.

D R. J ACK G RAHAM , pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church

In Shake Free Sam Rodriguez uses one of the more detailed events in the New Testamentthe apostle Pauls incredible sea journey that ended in a shipwreckto reveal how anyone caught up in a life journey that appears headed for catastrophe may find the way to safety and spiritual growth. Just as Paul shook off the viper that threatened his life, so we, through the power of the Spirit, can shake off the problems and challenges that are keeping us from true freedom in Christ.

D R. T ONY E VANS , senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship and president of the Urban Alternative

Modern technology has forever changed the way we travel. In my lifetime alone, Ive benefited from seeing one form of transportation give way to another.

As a boy growing up in New Zealand, I would walk or ride my bike to get where I wanted to go, usually school or the beach. Later, I discovered the thrill of riding the interisland ferry connecting the north and south islands of my home country.

There was a time when flying to minister to Australias varying states felt like an incredible luxurymore convenient than driving for days to reach the country towns of this wide brown land that is now my home. Today, I travel more than ever as Hillsong continues to plant churches in cities around the world, including London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Moscow, and even Tel Aviv.

While global flights and online booking have made travel easier in many ways, other aspects, often related to safety and security, still create challenges. As often as I fly, I could tell you plenty of stories about missed connections, canceled flights, wayward baggage, and unexpected layovers. No matter how advanced our technology, we still face challenges from changing weather patterns, new government policies, and human errors anytime we attempt to travel from point A to point B.

The same is true in our spiritual lives. The metaphor of our faith being like a journey may seem like a clich, but it nonetheless inspires us with new insight as we seek to follow Jesus in our daily lives. No one lived out a journey of faith that was both literal and symbolic quite like the apostle Paul. Called by God to share the good news to all people, not just the Jewish nation, Paul traveled on foot, on donkey, on horseback, and by ship. And as recorded in the New Testament, he faced about every obstacle imaginableand some beyond what anyone could imagine!

Paul overcame storms, shipwrecks, snakebites, jail cells, angry mobs, and Roman trials, and his example continues to encourage each of us to persevere wherever we may be in our journey of faith or whatever we may be facing. And its a given that we will encounter obstacles, conflicts, problems, and storms along the way. In fact, most of us at one time or another will lose our way and will discover, only by the grace of God, the courage to blaze new paths and reach the divine destinations for which he created us.