Can I Trust God?: Understanding the Book of Job - Tapa blanda

My goal is to destroy the most fortified stronghold in peoples’ hearts: their misunderstanding of God. I have tried to do this in the most simplistic way possible while, at the same time, not avoiding any controversy in the book of Job. I believe I have been led by the Holy Spirit to create within these pages a “valley of decision” (Joel 3:14). This material can be equally liberating or equally offensive regardless of denomination or religious background. My hope for us all is, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him” (Ephesians 1:17). “If you are looking for a fresh revelation on what is happening in the book of Job as well as in your own heart, this is it!”

I grew up in the Christian church and accepted Jesus as my savior at the age of seven, but did not find myself growing very much spiritually as I got older. Even after re-dedicating my life to God at the age of twenty-one I still did not feel close to God. I was attending church and doing all of the right things. In fact, I was one of the best doers there, but something was missing. There just had to be more to the Christian life. I started my own service business in 1990 and by 2000 I could do my work and, at the same time, think on something completely different. So, while working I would meditate on bible verses. It was during one of these extended times of thinking on a particular passage of scripture that something began to happen. For years I would think on 1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” I did not see any immediate changes, but I can look back now and see that one specific thought began to permeate my mind: God loved me. I found myself, even on very difficult days of demanding physical labor, being assured that no matter what I was going through; God loved me. I now know I was experiencing the foundational understanding of the mind of Christ. I was receiving the knowledge of God’s love. As this revelation was growing I began to see that other Christians, for the most part, did not have this assurance of God’s love. I found myself saying all the time, “It’s ok, God loves you.” But, I knew I had to do more. Sometime around the summer of 2009 God directed me to attend Charis Bible College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the spring of 2013 I founded The Truth Wins Ministries, which is dedicated to overcoming the opposing forces that suppress the knowledge of God’s love. This book is the second in a series devoted to that purpose.