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Zusatztext 40835741 Informationen zum Autor Stovall Weems is the founder and lead pastor of the multi-site Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the fastest growing and largest churches in America. As pastor, teacher, and conference speaker, Stovall’s ministry focuses on building the local church, reaching people with the gospel, and developing passionate followers of Christ. Stovall is also the leader of Awakening, a 21-day spiritual campaign of prayer and fasting that takes place each January. Awakening serves to equip thousands of pastors, churches, and ministry leaders around the world, inspiring a culture of prayer and fasting in their church or ministry. Through local, national, and international television, Stovall Weems Ministries broadcasts weekly in over 200 countries and can be seen in over 90 million homes across the United States. Stovall and his wife, Kerri, have three children, Kaylan, Stovie, and Annabelle. Learn more at ccawakening.org. Klappentext Stop hitting the spiritual snooze button. Would you describe your walk with God as fresh and exciting? Would you describe your spiritual life as vibrant and passionate? If not! would you like these attributes to be the norm in your everyday relationship with God? Are you ready to experience an awakening? Awakening helps you stir up your slumbering soul. You'll discover how to break out of your season of dryness or get off to a great start either in the New Year or the next season in life. Take your faith-walk from a "going through the motions" or "have to" mindset to the stimulating! fresh "want to" experience of enjoying God's presence-24/7. Weems encourages you to surrender fully! to discover the right kind of fuel for the journey! and to learn a new way to pray and fast. This lifestyle is not based on rules or religion! but on a deep! satisfying! motivating relationship with God. Included in Awakening is a 21-Day Plan that will guide you through the principles that ensure a lasting! fresh relationship with God-even in a world where everything quickly becomes stale. "It's time to wake up and put an end to spiritual sluggishness! I promise this year will be the best of your life if it is your best year spiritually." - Stovall Weems Chapter 1: Awakening Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. —Romans 12:11, NIV How close do you feel to God? Most of us sense that there’s more to a relationship with God than what we currently are experiencing. But how do we develop a more intimate bond with Him? As a devoted follower of Jesus, I have learned some secrets to staying consistently fresh in my relationship with God. This deepening friendship begins with what I call an awakening . After an awakening, life is never the same. A relationship with God is the most fulfilling thing a person can experience. Yet, I have observed that while the vast majority of believers start out with a lot of passion and zeal in their relationship with God, over time that enthusiasm subsides. On a day-to-day basis, their relationship with God eventually becomes passive. There are occasional bursts of excitement, but even that excitement is short-lived. Their walk with God seems to have a few highs, some lows…and a whole lot of mundane in-betweens. Why is that? Does it strike you, as it has me, that there is something terribly wrong with that picture? Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” ( John 10:10). Aren’t we vaguely unsettled with the idea that somehow a daily relationship with God… the God of the universe…can end up with the flavor of stale bread? The Bible is clear that our passion and “spiritual fervor” should be constant (Romans 12:11). So why have so many Christians ac...
