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    God's Transformations for Our Lives: God's Use of 40 to Transform Our Lives: Study and Devotional
    God's Transformations for Our Lives: God's Use of 40 to Transform Our Lives: Study and Devotional
    God's Transformations for Our Lives: God's Use of 40 to Transform Our Lives: Study and Devotional
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    God's Transformations for Our Lives: God's Use of 40 to Transform Our Lives: Study and Devotional

    By Shereen D. Fink

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    I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

    Do you find yourself asking Why? Why are individuals experiencing uncertain circumstances? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why cant I figure out my purpose in life? Why, why, why? Trials and tribulations have always been a part of life here on earth. Even Jesus wasnt immune. Its part of our journey, our experience. Struggles and hardships challenge us to stop and ask God for help and guidance. Through these times, we grow in our faith when we trust God is with us and enabling us to persevere and overcome.

    Join the author as she shares her study and devotionals during her own personal walk through a transformational period. Through study of four transformational examples in the Bible, she walks us through her daily devotions and reveals her personal journal entries for those devotions, guiding you through a forty-day study and devotional.

    Learn how God uses the number 40 to represent a time of major change and transformation in life. In every instance, God is the rock and salvation, our strength and endurance, which allows us to put one foot in front of the other to wade through uncertain circumstances while His Son, Jesus Christ, embraces and guides us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateApr 9, 2012
    ISBN9781449744274
    God's Transformations for Our Lives: God's Use of 40 to Transform Our Lives: Study and Devotional
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    Shereen D. Fink

    Shereen Fink resides in Brighton, Colorado, with her husband, Roger, and border collie, Max. After more than twenty years of corporate life in technology, she started her own technical marketing business. Her passion is her nonprofit ministry that she started in 2004, which provides adults education for English as a second language (ESL). Over twenty-five volunteers and two churches work with the ESL ministry, serving hundreds of students from all over the world. Her purpose in life is to share God’s light and the love of Christ Jesus through her day-to-day devotions and Text Ministry; her work within her church; and giving back to the community at large.

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      God's Transformations for Our Lives - Shereen D. Fink

      God’s Transformations for Our Lives

      God’s use of 40 to transform our lives: study and devotional

      SHEREEN D. FINK

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      Copyright © 2012 by Shereen D. Fink.

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      Scriptures are taken from the New International Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society, Published by Zondervan

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-4428-1 (sc)

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012906159

      WestBow Press rev. date: 04/04/2012

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      The First Transformation: Forty Days and Forty Nights of Rain (Genesis 7-9)

      The Second Transformation: Israelites’ Forty Years in the Desert (Exodus)

      The Third Transformation: Jesus Tested for Forty Days in the Desert (Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-13)

      The Fourth Transformation: Jesus’ Forty Days between Resurrection and Ascension (Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20, Acts 1:3)

      About the Author

      To my soul mate and husband, Roger. Every day with you is a gift from God. MLTI.

      To my pastors Ken Brown and Thomas Cross. Your unfailing spiritual guidance and support is eternally appreciated.

      To my soul niece and BFF, Sheri Barnes. This journey isn’t complete without you.

      Pass It On

      It only takes a spark to get a fire going,

      And soon all those around can warm up in its glowing.

      That’s how it is with God’s love once you’ve experienced it;

      You spread his love to everyone; you want to pass it on.

      What a wondrous time is spring, when all the trees are budding;

      The birds begin to sing, the flowers start their blooming.

      That’s how it is with God’s love once you’ve experienced it;

      You want to sing, it’s fresh like spring, you want to pass it on.

      I wish for you, my friend, this happiness that I’ve found;

      you can depend on him, it matters not where you’re bound.

      I’ll shout it from the mountaintop; I want my world to know;

      The Lord of love has come to me, I want to pass it on.

      Kurt Kaiser

      For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

      —Jeremiah 29:11

      Foreword

      It was during the honeymoon period of my pastorate at Broomfield United Methodist Church that I decided to share my devotional practices. I wanted the congregation to know that I put fuel in my spiritual tank daily. I wanted them to know I practiced what I preached about spending time with God. And yes, I expected that secretly they would be impressed. Of these lofty aspirations that day, the goal to impress was missed by a mile!

      Only a handful of persons in worship that day took me up on an invitation to join me in a daily devotional approach I considered exceptional. Shereen Fink

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