Beth Guckenberger - Start with Amen: How I Learned to Surrender by Keeping the End in Mind

From the first to the last pages of Start with Amen, you will see how God links his dream for us to his vision through us! You will experience new thirst and expectancy for receiving the hidden wealth of the secret places (Isa. 45:3) and realizeI pray as never beforethat for you, just as for Beth, the secret place is the secret to life in all its fullest. As you review the subtitles of every chapter and get to the very last, imagine there is an added chapteran epiloguethat you yourself will write as your part of this story, and its subtitle is this: The Invitation of Amen! I pray your RSVP says YES!

Dr. Susan Hillis
Speaker, author, captain in US Public Health Service

Start with Amen was an inspiration and eye opener. For me, the word amen is used to describe something I do to close a prayer or offer thanks. But as she points out so eloquently, it was intended to describe a spiritual position before Goda start of something, not just an ending. This book is part study of the Scriptures, part illustrationswith real life examplesthat bring to life practical ways to put Scripture to work, and a whole lot of inspiration. Prepare to be challenged. Beth constructs Start with Amen in a way that inspires you to not fall into orphan thinking but to realize that God cares about everything you do. A great read for those looking to go deeper with God and to be inspired by someone who lives that out every day.

Kirk Perry
President of brand solutions, Google

All my life Ive prayed and put a period at the end of amen. After reading Start with Amen, Ive experienced a new revelation about how to begin my conversations with God. Beth Guckenberger leads you through the practice of beginning with the end and how it immediately aligns your will with his. Sacred in every way, she testifies that this place of oneness is where even what cant be seen causes your heart to swell with supernatural confidence and hope. Beautiful and praiseworthy, this work is filled with the immeasurable possibilities that follow when you utter your amen to God firstfor his glory and his glory alone.

Tami Heim
President & CEO, Christian Leadership Alliance

I have seen firsthand the fruit of Beths prayers. I have spent time with her and her husband in Monterrey, Mexico, and Ive seen the way that Back2Back has made an impact all over the world. Beths heart is always open to God and his love for those who have been pushed to the margins in our society. In 2007 I rode my bicycle across the country to benefit orphans. That trip was born out of one of Beths prayers that I would let God use me in a way that went far beyond what I could dream or ever expect of myself. Beth makes space for God in every aspect of her daily life, and these prayers are born in that sacred space. They are prayers that change lives, including mine.

Mark Schultz
Dove Award winner

Amid the noise of a groaning world and our own aching hearts, Beth Guckenberger helps us hear the Heartbeat at the center of the universe, pulsing with love and mercy. The guidance Beth offers is not speculation; it is godly wisdom rough-hewn from the sorrows, sacrifices, and joys found only in long journeys of faith, near to the heart of Jesus.

Jedd Medefind
President, Christian Alliance for Orphans
Author of Becoming Home

Beth is an amazing storyteller, and this book is no exception. She has a wonderful knack for captivating the reader with her personal life stories and intertwining them with the timeless treasures of Gods Word.

Lonnie Clouse
NASCAR chaplain with Motor Racing Outreach

In her new book, Start with Amen, Beth unpacks Old Testament and New Testament truth about our covenant-making, promise-keeping God, who can be trusted with our full lives surrendered to his ways. Beth, through incredible story, personal transparency, and intimacy with Jesus, walks the reader to the place of freedom and power that Christ intends for us to enjoy. Beths book is a proclamation of what surrender and unflinching obedience to the God of all power can yield in the life of the reader.... Enter this book with great expectancy to experience greater faith, new hope, freedom from fear, and a fresh ability to trust our all-loving God.

Steve Biondo
Senior vice president, Family Christian

While reading Start With Amen, I realized how much my mind and heart needed reconditioning. Like hair that gets dry and brittle from overexposure, so my spiritual walk needed this reboot and reminder that God waits to do life for us and through us. Our energy needs to be refocused on resting in his provision. Starting our days, our appointments, our challenges with amen helps us orient our minds and wills to let God be the I am in the everyday. Thanks, Beth, for being used of the Spirit to comfort, convict, and clarify in this profoundly simple revelation.

Emilie Wierda
President, Eagle Companies
Bible Teacher, mom, seminarian

2017 Beth Guckenberger

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