Jennifer Kennedy Dean - Altard: Experience the Power of Resurrection

I always enjoy reading what Jennifer Kennedy Dean writes because it is always biblically accurate, deeply profound, and invariably inspiring. She has done it again in Altard. This book is filled with nuggets that will inform and change your life. I highly recommend it!

Dr. Richard Blackaby, coauthor of EXPERIENCING GOD, REVISED EDITION, and SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Jennifer Kennedy Dean has written a powerful 40-day devotional book which is one of the clearest teachings on the difference between the flesh and the spirit I have ever read. You will be forever altard after reading this book.

Carole Lewis, First Place 4 Health national director

Forty days of WOW! I can count the number of books Id like to read twice on one hand. Yet I cant wait to give Jennifer Kennedy Deans Altard the next read. And the next. Enlightening teaching, endearing transparency, and magnificently life-changing concepts keep the wow factor revved to the max from beginning to end. I dont think Ill ever see altar as a noun again. Its been totally verbed into a place of sweet action. Altard is a must-read. And a must-read again.

Rhonda Rhea, author of HOW MANY LIGHTBULBS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A PERSON?

Jennifer Kennedy Dean is one of our favorite guests to have on the show. Her love for Jesus and knowledge of Gods Word consistently sets the stage for powerful and life-changing dialogue. Jennifers new book, Altard: Experience the Power of Resurrection, invites readers on a journey to discover the transforming power of the risen Christ within a teachable heart. As Jennifer noted, The call to crucifixion is always to make a way for resurrection. If youre done with status-quo and stagnant spirituality and youre willing to die to self that you might live more fully for Christ, take this book and take your time. Read one day at a time, let it get under your skin, in your bones, and into your heart. In due time youll learn the glory, the power, and the promise of Christ within you.

Susie Larson, host of LIVE THE PROMISE WITH SUSIE LARSON, author of THE UNCOMMON WOMAN

The title alone is enough to grab you but the heart of the author and the passion that drives her will inspire you. Jennifer communicates profound biblical truths in a way that creates a hunger for more of the Jesus she loves. While she seeks to understand and live the altard life, you cant help but want to join her. What Ive read and learned here has challenged and encouraged me. Thank you, Jennifer.

Jill Kelly, author of NEW YORK TIMES bestseller WITHOUT A WORD: HOW A BOYS UNSPOKEN LOVE CHANGED EVERYTHING

This devotional is encouraging, inspirational, and challenging. An awesome reminder that the resurrection power of Christ is available to each of us, if well choose to live a life FULLY surrendered. Altard is a great book for anyone that wants to experience Gods power in their life and ministry.

Matt Fry, lead pastor of C3 Church, Clayton, North Carolina

OTHER NEW HOPE BOOKS BY
Jennifer Kennedy Dean

Life Unhindered! Five Keys to Walking in Freedom

Life-Changing Power in the Name of Jesus

Life-Changing Power in the Blood of Jesus

Live a Praying Life! Journal

Live a Praying Life! Open Your Life to Gods Power and Provision

Live a Praying Life Bible Study

Live a Praying Life Leader Kit

The Power of Small: Think Small to Live Large

Pursuing the Christ: Prayers for Christmastime

Secrets Jesus Shared:
Kingdom Insights Revealed Through the Parables Leader Kit

Secrets Jesus Shared:
Kingdom Insights Revealed Through the Parables Bible Study

Set Apart: A 6-Week Study of the Beatitudes

EXPERIENCE
THE POWER OF
RESURRECTION

Jennifer Kennedy Dean

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2012 by Jennifer Kennedy Dean
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dean, Jennifer Kennedy.

Altard : experience the power of resurrection / Jennifer Kennedy Dean.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-59669-331-9 (sc)

1. Christian life--Meditations. 2. Flesh (Theology)--Meditations. I. Title. BV4509.5.D423 2012

248.4--dc23

2011045842

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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I cant trace how many years God has been teaching me about crucifixion of the flesh, and its consequent release of the Spirits power. I have written about itor at least mentioned itin nearly every book Ive ever written. I can see the seeds of the concept in my first book 20 years ago, and can trace its progression through subsequent books. I remember how it all started.

My husband went through a long period of unemployment. It was agony for me. The humiliation, the uncertainty, the fear, the loss of stuff, the tension. I tried every prayer secret Id ever heard of to get God to come through. Fasting, begging, confessing, then confessing some more, getting others to pray... the list goes on.

On June 17, 1988, I wrote the following: Reading Romans 12:1. What does it mean to be a living sacrifice? How do I die to myself? Just abstract concept to me, but I want to really know it. I want You to have all of me. Then I went back to whining and kvetching about my difficult situation that seemed to have no end.

A couple of weeks later, I seemed to have an aha moment. Nothing Im feeling right now could have origins in the Spirit. So only one other possibility? The flesh? Fear = flesh. Anger = flesh. Humiliation = flesh. I get that. So now what? Without walking you with me through the years of prayer journals, suffice it to say that slowly, piece by piece, one baby step at a time, aha moment upon aha moment, I started to get it. God exposes flesh. I can choose to ignore that flesh and relegate it to its rightful crucifixion. I have come to call that a crucifixion moment. When that flesh succumbs to its prescribed deathcrucifixionthen the power of resurrection takes its place. While I had been railing and wailing at God to take my problem away, He had been lovingly redefining the experience as a crucifixion that would lead to a resurrection. He was bringing flesh out of hiding and forcing it into the light where I could chooseyield to crucifixion, or resuscitate my flesh and keep on giving it power in my life.