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Dear Friend, All of us are looking for answers. The good news is that God has them. Every answer we will ever need. All we have to do now is lay hold of them. In this book, you’ll learn vital principles that will help you get answers from God when you need them. I promise your prater life will never be the same.- Pastor David Blunt

God is looking for plodders—people who keep going on despite their circumstances, despite their feelings, despite their moments of discouragement or disappointment. Plodders keep going on when others quit! There are people of destiny, set on fulfilling God’s plan for their life. Are you a plodder? If so, this book will keep you on track. If not, it will show you how to maximize you plodder potential.

What kind of life do you imagine God has? Mark it down: God lives a good life. The exciting thing is that He wants us to experience that very same quality of life for ourselves!

It’s been said that silence is golden. Not so for Christians. For Christians, Silence is sin. We have an assignment, and that assignment is to preach the gospel to all the world. We’ve been commissioned to do it. We’ve been empowered to do it. And we’ll be rewarded for doing it. So why aren’t we doing it? Fear. We’ve let ourselves be intimidated, dominated, and manipulated by the devil and we’ve retreated into silence.

All of us need wisdom to make it through life successfully. The question is, where do we find true wisdom? The Word of God plainly tells us in the book of Jeremiah that it is not in man, even man at his best, to direct his own steps. Ordering our lives requires the kind of wisdom that only comes from God. In this book, Wisdom's Winning Ways, you'll learn how to tap into God's wisdom to conquer clutter and confusion so that you can be a winner in Life!

This book, plainly and simply, tries to address some bedrock concepts of DevSecOps. Being concise, this book addresses the "what and why" of DevSecOps and then tries to focus one aspect in each of the people, process, and technology domains.

We don't have to settle for dull, boring routine Christianity. We can keep on going and growing with God every day of our life. No more monotony. No more frustration. No more playing church. The real thing. We get there by staying hungry.

Milton Cauley had tried marriage, and it didn’t work out so well. Now a widower, he has no intention of ever marrying again. He’ll devote his time to being the best barber he can be. But a misguided friend orders him a bride from the matchmaker others in Pinyon Falls have used, and Milton is furious. As far as Milton is concerned, the man can just handle the problem himself since he’s responsible for it.

WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING? Your answer to that questions determines how much God can do in you, through you, and for you. If you think little, believe little, pray little, and expect little, you'll receive little. But if you think big, believe big, pray big, and expect big, you'll receive big. It's all up to you. God's plans for your life are too good and too important for you to settle for little.

You can experience the goodness of God in your own life. You can know Him - not just know about Him. The Incredible Benefits of Knowing God will help you discover that to know Him is to trust Him . . . to love Him is to obey Him . . . and to obey Him brings you into continual abiding fellowship with Him producing fruit in your life that bless both you and all those around you.

When it comes to God, most people live in the Someday Zone. "Maybe someday God will heal me." "Maybe someday God will deliver me." "Maybe someday God will bless me." Someday...someday...someday. Everything is always going to happen someday. The good news is that God is not a someday God. He's a right-now God. He cares about you right now and he wants to bless you right now. You don't have to wait until someday. He's ready and willing to work in your life today. Right now. Immediately.

God's Benefit: Healing looks at what the Bible has to say about the subject of divine healing. No more wondering. No more guessing. You'll learn how God Himself answers the above questions and others concerning this very important topic.

WALKING IN LOVE. Nobody did it better than Jesus. Love ultimately led Him to the point of laying down His very own life for the sake of others. He set aside His personal preferences. He overlooked the wrongs He suffered. He was quick to forgive and quick to to restore. He prayed for those who despitefully used Him. And what a difference He made because of that. Multiplied millions of lives have been changed because this one Man dared to obey God and walk the Love Walk.

Merle Warner is a real estate investor who has never had a permanent home of his own. When he decides to settle down, he contacts a matchmaker he finds in an old ad, telling her that he plans to travel to the location of his intended. Vanessa Acker isn't well-liked in Pinyon Falls because she's too aggressive for most people. She contacts the matchmaker several others in town rave about, hoping to relocate and start over.

When you ask people the question, you usually get many different answers. Some see God as an authoritarian leader or dictator, others see Him as aloof and distant. Still, others see Him as a father figure concerned with even the smallest details of their lives. Whatever your view of God may be, it matters. In God is For You, David Blunt explains that in order for God to do the good things He wants to do in your life, you must have the right perspective of Him.

Marshall Walker has built his successful ranch over years of hard work. He hasn’t had time to seek a wife. But when his brother dies, leaving him the custody of two nieces, he decides now is the time–after all, he’s 31 years old. So he contacts a noted matchmaking service to speed the process since the girls are on their way, and he needs a wife as soon as possible.

Cordell Atwood’s best friend and boss found a successful mail-order bride through a matchmaker, and Cord decides it’s time for him to marry since he’s started his own Texas horse ranch. With the forward town flirt casting her eyes from Marshall to him, he decides to write to the matchmaker as well. When Miss Moriah Williams arrives from Georgia, he’s never seen such a beautiful woman, but the moment he opens his mouth, she turns to ice.

As the blacksmith in Pinyon Falls, Silas Barrett hasn’t had much luck finding a woman who’d let him court her. Since Marshall Walker and Cord Atwood found good women who suited them from a matchmaker, Silas decides to contact her too....