This book by Christian businessman, author and speaker Jack Alexander looks at an important topic: Many Christians live in a scarcity mindset. This plays out in our daily walk with Christ in that we believe in God and the Bible, but live as functional atheists when it comes to whether or not God will provide for our needs. Since most of us don't thinbk God is that interested in us personally, we live in a constant state of fear of losing our jobs, or homes, our health, and our families. This then leads to trying to depend on our own knowledge and efforts to get by, rather than to trust in a loving and personal God.

All four gospels tell about the incident when Jesus fed the multitudes with a few fish and a couple of loaves of bread. Because this story is one of the few miracles of Jesus that is recounted in all of the gospel accounts, Alexander uses this story to highlight four principles of God and His attitude toward us and His provision: (1) We discover God's capacity; (2) We consecrate what we do have an offer it to God; (3) He reorders our lives through challenges so that we find a new perspective on abundance and provision; and (4) The God provides what we truly need, often through community.

This is a most encouraging and thought-provoking book, and I cannot recommend it more highly!

THE GOD GUARANTEE

November 12, 2017 · by Lorne Anderson · in Books · 1 Comment ·Edit

Worry is a natural human emotion. Worrying about the future seems to be something a lot of us do. But is that necessary? Or healthy?

One of the reasons we worry is that we doubt our abilities and God’s ability to use them. We lack trust perhaps, or fail to understand the potential we have. We feel like we are wandering in a wilderness of scarcity, hoping somehow to find abundance. 9780801075285

Sometimes a book grows on you, and that is what I found with The God Guarantee by Jack Alexander. For the first couple of chapters I found myself not liking it. That changed as I went deeper.

What annoyed me at the outset was Alexander’s insistence on using the word “capacity” as a synonym for potential. He explained his reasoning, and his point may be a valid one, but it still didn’t sit right with me.

Alexander uses other terms also. He discusses the need for consecration, for persevering when facing challenges and how to be in community, which is what we humans are designed to be.

This is a book about human potential and divine potential, and how to unleash it. It is centred around one story, which you may be familiar with, a New Testament miracle where Jesus feeds 5,000 people with five small loaves of bread and a couple of fish. They didn’t have enough food, but no-one went hungry.

I’ve heard that story before. I’ve read it hundreds of times. I’ve read commentaries and heard sermons, but there are questions I’ve never heard asked, some I have never thought of asking. Alexander asks them.

For example, what if the disciples, tired as they must have been, had chosen to eat first and not pass the food around? After all, who thought that food for one could stretch to feed so many? Yes, Jesus had performed miracles before, but this would be taking things to a whole new level. I hadn’t thought about that before. I’d guess you hadn’t either.

Alexander is a businessman, not a theologian, so he brings a different perspective to his subject, one that I appreciated in the end.

What is your potential and how will you achieve it? The God Guarantee takes you on a journey to a hillside crowded with people waiting to be fed. The story of what happened then might help you on your voyage.

“Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.”

he God Guarantee

Finding Freedom from the Fear of Not Having Enough
by Jack Alexander

Baker Books

Christian

Pub Date 01 Aug 2017

I am voluntarily reviewing a copy of The God Guarantee through Baker Books and Netgalley:

Jaden Hayes had a hard childhood and two years later he discovered his Mothers body after she died in her sleep.

This book talks about the media making us feel if we are “Not enough, that what we have is not enough.” But we are reminded that Jesus still provides

This book talks about the four steps to Capacity. We are reminded that Satan’s Capacity’s killer. We are reminded that Lifting our eyes in prayer reveals capacity. This book reminds us of the importance.

I give The God Guarantee five out of five stars.

Happy Reading!