Suzanne B. Simpson - Lost and Restored: Healing Your Heart with the Father

For over a decade you have taught me significant lessons in leadership and in life and this book is no exception. By sharing your journey in this thought-provoking book, youve given us all a road map that can help each of us draw closer to God. This insightful book will challenge and inspire all who read it to integrate Jesus into every aspect of our lives, so that we too, will be victorious in spite of lifes challenges.

Connie Reinhardt , CPA/CFF, CFE, Member with Myers and Stauffer Accounting

Lost & Restored brings the heart of the Father, through Suzannes own personal journey and her counseling practice, to minister to everyone who reads her book. It is a heartfelt journey to ongoing wholeness that everyone can relate to.

She brings experience, practical tools and proven models for emotional healing. Jesus is the only one who can heal and she does a wonderful job leading us to Him, the Good Shepherd and Great Physician.

Sylvia Wright , SMASH Ministry leader (Soul, Mind, and Spirit Healing) at Bridgeway Church in Denver, Colorado

Scripture teaches that God has provided many ways to be healed: God has appointed in the churchmiracles then gifts of healings (1 Cor. 12:28). One of these gifts is inner healing, another is deliverance, another is energy psychology. There are many various tools our Heavenly Father has given in order for us to be made well!

Several of these methods are mentioned in this book, Lost & Restored , as Suzanne Simpson shares her personal journey to freedom through the counsel of the Wonderful Counselor Himself. Truly we comfort others with the comfort we ourselves have received, and it is fully available to all of us in Christ (2 Cor. 1:35). Invite Jesus into the broken places of your life today and let His love transform and heal you from the inside out.

Dr. Charity Virkler Kayembe , Coauthor of Hearing God through Your Dreams: Understanding the Language God Speaks at Night and EFT for Christians: Tapping into Gods Peace and Joy

Suzanne Simpsons new book, Lost & Restored , gives the reader a picture into her journey and her heart for the Body of Christ to be like sheep that are led by the Good Shepherd, who leads them out of the dark and scary places of life and into the safe and beautiful sheepfold of life. She openly shares her own struggles and doubts and then offers her journey of how she moved out of pain into healing and restoration. She also created insightful reflection questions at the end of each chapters to take the reader from information into a transformational experience. Finally, she offers a pathway at the end of the book that offers next steps to enter into a full restoration process. The cover entices us into this journeypick it up and get started.

Tamara J Buchan , Author of Identity Crisis: Reclaim the True You and You were Meant for More Series, Founder and Director of Reclaim Initiative, www.ReclaimInitiative.com.

Lost and Restored is both profound and pragmatic. Suzanne includes her own vulnerable stories of being lost and restored as well giving her husband, Les, an opportunity to share his raw healing journey stories which I found both refreshing and connecting. In addition to having deep spiritual truths, this book is easy to read and I found myself curled up by my fireplace each evening looking forward to the next chapter. In a very unobtrusive way, Suzanne is able to invite the reader into practical healing applications through her own probing and honest journey. This is a great resource for anyone, anywhere who has ever felt lost and longs to be fully restored.

Laura Greiner , PHD. Heart Sync Minister

Lost & Restored offers a warm, intimate description of the Fathers love touching the secret places of the heart. With personal examples woven throughout, Suzanne gives the reader accessible instruction in bringing our daily needs to the Lord. A wonderful read!

Sarah J. Thiessen , LMFT, LPC Director of the Splankna Therapy Institute

Healing Your
Heart with
the Father

SUZANNE B. SIMPSON

NASHVILLE

NEW YORKLONDONMELBOURNEVANCOUVER

Lost and Restored

Healing Your Heart with the Father

2020 Suzanne B. Simpson

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The majority of scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible (NKJV). Copyright 1979, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (TPT) are from the Passion Translation: The Psalms Poetry on Fire Wisdom from Above; Luke and Acts Dr. Brian Simmons 2014, 2016. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

New Living Translation of the Bible (NLT). 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from The Message (MSG) by Eugene Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

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To my husband Les, for modeling to me a deep personal connection to the Lord. He faithfully encourages me to break through my resistance and allow God to work in me.

I am especially grateful to the Lord for walking me through the insights I have shared herethe vulnerable areas that may help others heal like I experienced. I am thankful that I have a true Father who showers His constant love on me far beyond what I can comprehend.

I am dedicating this to the reader who is seeking an avenue to receive the peace and joy that is available to you as you fully receive the redemption of your soul.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set the liberty to those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luke 4:16-19)

D uring my years of experience as a psychotherapist assisting with peoples emotional struggles, I have come to understand that the main path to healing and wholeness is through Christ, who was Gods perfect sacrificethe Lamb of God. Because of that unblemished sacrifice, we can offer ourselves to God with all our blemishes and receive healing.