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    Holding Hands with Jesus: A Journey of Faith
    Holding Hands with Jesus: A Journey of Faith
    Holding Hands with Jesus: A Journey of Faith
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    Holding Hands with Jesus: A Journey of Faith

    By Dr. Cheryl Durham

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    A Christian Devotional exploring the themes of the book of James in the New Testament.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Cheryl Durham
    Release dateJun 2, 2009
    ISBN9780557056903
    Holding Hands with Jesus: A Journey of Faith
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    Dr. Cheryl Durham

    Rev Dr Cheryl A Durham is a Biblical Counselor, Discipleship Coach, Author and Speaker. She provides Biblical Counseling to persons online, via teleconference and in person. Her discipleship ministry spans the globe in over 100 ministries churches worldwide. Her blog is translated into three languages and distributed in India, Pakistan, Jordan, 3 countries in Africa and the U.S. She is a wife, mother and grandmother and resides at the Jersey Shore.

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      Holding Hands with Jesus - Dr. Cheryl Durham

      Introduction

      Walking with Jesus is difficult, especially when we can’t see Him. This devotional is designed to give you a sense of His presence by practicing the spiritual discipline of faith for nine months. In practicing what we would do if we could see Him, we develop a sense of sight that we cannot get intellectually. It is a practical sense, a putting on of practice that helps us see.

      Please use this as you see fit. The articles and exercises are not meant to rush through, but rather to contemplate and to mold to what happens in your everyday life. Over time, God will use your experience and patterns of life to see your life in a new way. Perhaps it will move you to ministry if you are not yet engaged in that.

      Churches and ministries around the world have used these studies: Pakistan, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zaire, Uganda, and other African villages and countries.

      It is my hope that this devotional will help you to enlarge your vision of Christ, and that it will give you the joy of a faithful life that no other aspect of life can give.

      I have devoted this book to my family who has given me much fodder to write from and especially to my husband Barry without whom I could not have written this book. His financial, emotional and spiritual support is invaluable to me…he is the best husband in the whole wide world.

      Faith through Trials

      James 1: 1-4

      Jesus’ brother wrote the book of James. He is speaking to his fellow Jews, male and female, his spiritual siblings, specifically to the twelve tribes of Israel that had been dispersed among the Greeks. What he is telling them flies in the face of what they thought the Messiah was to do when He came. They were expecting a conqueror that would restore Israel and crush its enemies. Instead, Jesus brought in a different kind of Kingdom. Not one of this world, but one of another, an invisible Kingdom that would eventually overcome, not overtake the world.

      James starts in verse two by saying that his siblings should think of their trials and persecutions as times of rejoice. Why would anyone think that? In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that this was the reward the prophets got when they were faithful. He said God would be ready to reward their faithful behavior despite the reaction they got here. (Matt 5:12). Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that if the faith of the prophets were tested, the faith of the church would be tested also.

      James follows by saying that the testing of their faith would produce good fruit in them if, in fact, they looked forward to the good work the trials would produce.

      This fruit would include steadfastness or endurance to keep their faith in difficult times. It would help them to fully understand precisely what they had faith in. Very often people mistake the object of their faith with the

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