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Author: David Jeremiah

David Jeremiah

Discovering God’s Presence and Purpose in Your Tomorrow

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Forward by David Jeremiah is a motivational guide that teaches readers how to move past their fears and live a more fulfilling life. With biblical wisdom and personal anecdotes, the author inspires readers to embrace change and pursue their dreams.

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What’s in it for me? Shape your future with God’s wisdom.

Have you ever wondered how you can bring Christianity into your life? Sometimes, the church can feel distant and archaic. Sometimes, it can seem cloaked in old-fashioned language and obscure wisdom. And what’s the use of that?

Well, in these blinks, you’ll find easy-to-grasp and contemporary lessons from that old source, the Bible. You’ll hear modern stories of people who’ve found God and changed their lives for the better. You’ll learn how God’s vision can guide you now – how it can help you pursue your life’s dream, learn to get your priorities straight, and even manage your finances better.

Most importantly, you’ll discover how to keep your life’s purpose in view.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

how Pavarotti focused on just one thing above all;
why Manny Pacquiao turned to Christ; and
how King David successfully held on to a shattered dream.

The Bible teaches us to hold on to our dreams.

King David had a great dream: to build a temple for the Lord at the top of Jerusalem’s Mount Moriah.

For centuries, Israel had worshiped at the tattered remnants of the tabernacle, the elaborate tent constructed in Moses’s time. But King David dreamt of a permanent place to worship God. He began to imagine a beautiful temple.

Without some kind of dream, we’re lost. The Bible tells us, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” When we have no idea about the kind of future we want, we flounder.

The key message here is: The Bible teaches us to hold on to our dreams.

Before you pursue your dream, try to envision it. Take a concrete example: without a blueprint for a house, you can’t build that house. And without a vision of that house, you can’t draw a blueprint. Your life is the house and you have to envision its shape.

Think of a great modern dreamer like Steve Jobs. He could envision what people needed and then build the technology to enrich their lives. He could see what wasn’t there, and what should be there.

King David was able to imagine the temple on Mount Moriah in just the same way. It wasn’t an abstract thing, this temple. It filled his mind, in all of its details. He imagined it as being more opulent than the beautiful palace he lived in, with its bulwarks and paneled walls.

David also discovered the difficulties of pursuing a dream. When he spoke with God about building the temple, God told him he wouldn’t be allowed to do it, as he’d been a man of war and shed blood. Instead, God told him it would be his son, Solomon, who’d build the temple.

David could have fallen into despair and defeat – it had been his dream, after all. But instead, he resolved to do all he could to help his son succeed. There’s a great lesson here. Sometimes, your dreams might not work out exactly as you pictured them. But that doesn’t mean you give up on them. Instead, you grasp the new possibilities that are offered and focus on them.

Pursuing a dream is hard – nobody said it would be easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is!

Prayer can show us the way forward.

Sometimes, your dreams can seem very far away. Maybe that dream is your first house, a university scholarship, or reuniting with someone you haven’t seen for a long time.

How can you get from A to a very distant B? Well, according to Christian teachings, prayer can help show you the way. By praying, you ask God for the resources, the courage, or the direction you need. If you’re sincere in your prayer, God will provide all you need.

God teaches us to keep our priorities in view.

Warren Buffet, the great investor, has some life advice that doesn't involve finance.

He recommends that you make a list of 25 things you’d most like to accomplish over the next few years. Then, he says, you should pick just the five most important. To get the really important things done, you need to narrow your focus.

There’s one thing that you’re meant to do above all others.

One of the Bible’s great teachers is Paul the Apostle. Later in his life, his one focus became a deeper spiritual connection to God. For his efforts, he was beaten and abused, but he kept on, focused on this one thing.

Writing to friends in the ancient city of Philippi, he said: “one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.”

The Bible teaches us to take risks.

Have you ever attempted something big that filled you with trepidation? Perhaps that was setting up a business on your own, writing a novel, or moving to a faraway place. After you took that risk, you probably felt better about yourself – even if it didn’t turn out exactly as you’d hoped.

Without taking risks, we stagnate. We get stuck in a rut, we stop growing as people. The Bible understands this. Think of all the people in scripture who knew that risk was central to achieving their dreams.

To hold on to purpose in life, look outwards.

It’s a familiar story: a movie star or a famous singer has it all. They live in a vast mansion, have infinite riches, and every whim catered for. On the outside, everything looks perfect. But if you were to live a day in their shoes, you’d see that they may carry a deep emptiness.

The truth is, you don’t need to be a famous movie star or singer to feel like this. It can happen to anyone. One moment, you’re full of enthusiasm for life; the next, it’s all been sapped from you. You’ve lost your purpose.

You need to invest in your earthly and eternal assets.

When you think of God, the word investment probably doesn’t come to mind. Finance and faith don’t seem like natural bedfellows. It’s true that money can’t buy spiritual salvation, but the idea of investment isn’t alien to the Bible. In fact, the Bible encourages us to invest in this life and the next.

The key message here is: You need to invest in your earthly and eternal assets.

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Forward (2020) shows you how you can discover God in your life right now. Bible teacher David Jeremiah explains how Biblical wisdom can be used to attain focus and purpose, helping you on to great personal accomplishment and fulfillment.

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Über den Autor

David Jeremiah is an evangelical preacher from Ohio. He’s the founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries, which air his sermons. He’s also senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, California. He served on President Trump’s evangelical advisory board.

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