I don't know how I missed the news about Bill's surgery until today, so I am praying for continued recovery.
I am so grateful to this ministry, which I have only discovered since Christmas. Though I have walked with the Lord for a long time, I have only now understood the "exchanged life."1 As I've begun to study what you and other ministries teach on the subject, I am extremely grateful to God that He led me to you first. It's understanding the "flesh patterns" that makes all the difference. It's like you've given me a new pair of Bible-reading glasses! Everything I read in scripture hits me differently now -- grabs me and says, "I've been trying to tell you this...now pay attention!" It's a thrill!
Even better news is that I'm not on this journey alone, but am "traveling" with several dear friends, all "mature believers" (or so we thought!), who somehow had MISSED the idea of Christ as LIFE. Lord and Savior, yes, but understanding that He is literally our LIFE is foundational. Again, though, if I hadn't gotten ahold of your teaching first, I think I would have been lost in semantics.
Lifetime Guarantee (the book) and then the website, and now the tapes I've ordered have immersed me in a study of who I really am in Christ, and what to do about my own flesh patterns. Thank you, Bill, Anabel and Preston (that's my son's name, too. He's 10, loves the Lord, and I'm so excited to share all this with him!)
God bless you in your continued recovery, Bill, and I'll get our group to pray for you, too.
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1 Editor's Note: The "exchanged life" is a term that is sometimes used to describe our take on the Christian life, in that as Believers, we exchange our life for the life of Christ who now lives in us by faith. Lifetime Guarantee is also a member of the Association of Exchanged life Ministries. Read more about the exchanged life.
