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    New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny: The New Believer's Bible Study Guide, #2
    New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny: The New Believer's Bible Study Guide, #2
    New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny: The New Believer's Bible Study Guide, #2
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    New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny: The New Believer's Bible Study Guide, #2

    By Thomas A. Lenz

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    If I could be the servant posted just inside the entrance to the Kingdom of God, The New Believer's Crash Course is the manual I would hand to you as you stepped in.

    One of the most wondrous things that God has done is to store life in seeds. Seeds are relatively small and plain. But, in the right conditions, after some time, a delicate seedling comes forth from the lowly seed. The seedling can grow into something strong and large that also produces more seeds of the same kind. People are born again by the incorruptible seed of the word of God. Newly born again people, like the seedling, are in a delicate state, and they are planted in the midst of a world that is generally hostile to the life inside. However, with the right nurture, they can grow into something strong and large, in spite of the surroundings. The New Believer's Crash Course maps out the bare essentials for not only surviving but also flourishing. This Crash Course contains time tested truths and tactics for strength of spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas A. Lenz
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781502218698
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      New Believer's Crash Course - First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny - Thomas A. Lenz

      New Believer’s Crash Course

      First Steps to Possessing Your Destiny

      New Believer’s Bible Study Guide Series

      Thomas A. Lenz

      VAN VUUREN HOUSE

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      NEW BELIEVER’S CRASH COURSE

      FIRST STEPS TO POSSESSING YOUR DESTINY

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Van Vuuren House

      Copyright © 2014

      Edition 1.1

      thomas.a.lenz@NewBelieversBibleStudyGuide.com

      Cover - Mustard seed on fingertip - Shawn Hempel/Shutterstock.com and

      Field with an aged, vintage look - Maksym Dykha/Shutterstock.com

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner and publisher of this book.

      Except where noted, all Bible quotes from New King James Version.

      INTRODUCTION

      This book is written to new believers. That is, to anyone who has just become a believer in Jesus Christ. If that describes you, congratulations, you've made the greatest decision of your life. You’ve been transformed from one type of being into another. You've stepped through The Door, Jesus, into a realm so vast that it will take you eternity to explore. This book is about helping you to understand what has happened to you and how to begin to fully realize all that now belongs to you.

      Later in the book, I’ll describe a little bit more about what happened to you when you became a believer. It is the most miraculous and significant event that can happen to a human being, and yet here’s a fact that’s both tragic and puzzling: not everyone, in fact most people, don’t continue on to fulfill the destiny that God has provided for them. Jesus spoke of it this way:

      Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7:13)

      How can this be? If God’s gift to mankind through Jesus is so wonderful and so magnificent, why is the whole world not immediately and whole-heartedly rushing to accept it and falling at the feet of Jesus in thanksgiving and adoration? Part of the answer is in the verse just quoted. The many who are on the path to destruction exert a strong influence on those around them that pulls in the same direction that they are going, to destruction. Have you ever tried to enter a door into a building that everyone else was leaving? It can be quite a challenge to go against the flow.

      Another part of the answer is that a believer has some enemies. Who are these enemies? What are their tactics? How can their tactics be defeated? These are some of the things that you will learn in the New Believer’s Crash Course.

      I’ve been a believer for over four decades. I know what has helped me be victorious over the strategies of our enemies. I’ve seen many casualties and the tactics to which they fell victim.

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