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Horace Williams Jr
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The Furnace of Affliction
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Author Insight
Do You Want to Know Jesus?
What does it mean to really know someone? Thankfully, after all my time on this earth, I have known and still know many people. However, knowing Jesus is something completely different. Jesus desires to have a personal, intimate relationship with you. He wants to come into your heart and live within you through the Holy Spirit. Once you accept Jesus into your heart, EVERYTHING CHANGES. Jesus becomes so much more than someone you've read about in history books like former presidents or other famous people. Your life begins to have a purpose as you seek to glorify Him. You also start to see things through the lens of Jesus' eyes instead of your own. As I state in this book, having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ does not exempt you from pain, trials, and even suffering at times. I can speak from experience on this. But I also want to give you hope. Because when your heart belongs to Jesus, you NEVER have to walk through these trials alone. And friend, there is nothing better than the assurance of knowing the Jesus who gave His life for you now lives within you and the power that raised Him from the dead you now can have access to it EVERY DAY. That is truly a great reason to KNOW JESUS!
Book Excerpt
The Furnace of Affliction
At the age of five, I knelt next to my bed with my mother beside me and asked Jesus to come into my heart. More than anything else, I knew I was deathly afraid of going to hell. However, throughout middle school, junior high, and high school, I had no heart transformation.
I was dragged to Sunday school and church every time the doors were open, but I had no desire to develop my relationship with God. I was not living a Christ-like life, so a lot of my pain and suffering leading up to my stroke was self-inflicted.
As painful as those trying seasons in my life were, I feel I have learned and grown from the experiences. I no longer practice those habitual sins, taking advantage of God’s undeserved grace. “No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9).
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