Tired of the ho-hum of everyday life?
Dream bigger.
Where do I start? Smaller.
How? Ignite God's vision for your life.
So we begin with three lofty ideals,
right? Sounds great doesn't it? Steven
Furtick goes beyond the pumping and priming to motivate us with
another self-help book. He issues a direct challenge in his book
simply entitled Greater.
BURNING YOUR PLOW
The author develops the entire thesis
of Greater
around the story of the life of the ancient Israelite prophet,
Elisha. Elisha is the lesser known ancient prophet. Everyone knows
Elijah. Yet Elisha does twice the miracles of Elijah, some of them
simply mind-blowing and it all starts with burning a plow.
Steven
Furtick begins with the calling of Elisha, the everyday plowboy.
He concludes with a life being restored when it touches this
plowboy's dead bones. He points out how many of the miracles of this
transformed plowboy began with the lesser, the small and sometimes
strange reasoning. God turns them into the greater not only in the
life of Elisha but in the lives he affected. And you have access to
this God of the greater.
IGNITING GREATER
Greater
is well-written by Steven
Furtick. It's light and easy to read. It's easy to grasp the
message the author intends as he traces the transformation of the
plowboy into the powerful, blessed with the double portion prophet.
The author goes deeper than the make-you-feel-good cliches offering
the reader a challenge to step into a life of greater, not lesser,
not more of the same.
Jesus makes the statement in John 14:12
that not only would we do the works that he did, but we would do
greater works. This statement has always intrigued me. It is this
promise, as I take it from the scriptures, that drew me to the book
Greater
by Steven Furtick when I
saw the title and the dream bigger, start smaller, and ignite God's
vision for your life on its cover.
The book lives up to its title. It
inspires me to dream bigger though I must start at small and what
seems to be the boring normal. I am challenged to seek God even
deeper for the vision he has for the greater in my life. This is one
of those books I will read more than once. I recommend it highly.
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received this book free from Multinomah Books as part of
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review program. I wasn't required to write a positive review. The
opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in
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