Congratulations to the following winners of the Breakthrough to Clarity Bible Contest — a fresh copy of an NLT Study Bible is on your ways! Just like the winners, you too can have your very own copy of Gospel of John Study Bible simply by signing in at http://biblecontest.newlivingtranslation.com. Plus, you will have a chance to win 100 Free NLT Study Bibles that you can share to your church. The grand prize winner of this contest will get a spiritual trip for 4 to the Holy Land.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Tajsha Shy
October 12, 2009
Daily there are new levels within us God seeks for us to acquire within Him to climb higher our relationship with Him. Confidence(faith) occurs without uncertainty. I have been walking around for fourteen years with uncertainty about my path, my purpose, my calling and who I am in the Kingdom. October 12, 2009 became my day uncertainty became confidence and clarity thru NLT. The seed: But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him to reveal his Song to me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles (Gal. 1:15-16) The msg: Because God was guiding his ministry, Paul wasn’t doing anything that God hadn’t already planned and given him power to do. Similarly, God told Jeremiah that God had called him, even before he was born, to do special work for God. The application: God knows you intimately as well, and he chose you to be his even before you were born. He wants yu to draw close to him and to fulfill the purpose he has for your life. I carry this daily with me to remind myself as I allow myself to seek Him to endure living this life I am having to endure. God is my confidence and assurance. This is my confirmation I am right where He knew I be. It is truly alright because He is working things out for His master plan. I encourage those who are walking around as I to know, there is a path we all are to endure according to His purpose. I daily press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I am forgetting those things which are behind and I am continuing to (live and not die) reaching forth unto those things God has just for me. “Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in me will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” or until He calls me home and say it is finished. I am thankful I gained the clarity from NLT to be filled with the confidence I needed at the time of my breaking point/crossroad of my faith path. As well as my identity in the Kingdom … I Praise and Worship God in Spirit and Truth.
I Love This Translation
Sal Puma
I am a pastor. I have been studying the Bible for many years. The whole purpose of the Bible is to commmunicate to man who God is and His will for our lives. I love the NLT becuase it does such a fine job at doing just that. It is written to be understandable to the reader in a way that is his mind can easily process it and clearly understand how to apply it. It fully translates the the point that the Author intended in a way that I don’t have to do a personal exhaustive study to figure it out. I highly recommend it.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
13 Years and Counting
David Story
I have been a recovering alcoholic for thirteen years now. My last drink was in 1996, the same year that the New Living Translation came out. When I got out of the hospital (cirrhosis of the liver, and close to death) I rededicated my life to the Lord. I made a comment to my wife that I’d like to read the Bible through. She came home with a New Living Translation One Year Bible. I’ve been reading it ever since. Another year sober, another Bible reading completed. It has changed my life.
Friday, November 20, 2009
God Talks to Me in My Dreams
Fathia Latice Pugh
I did know what “GOD” was trying to say to to November 4, 2008 when my father passed. I would go to sleep at night an had this dream for a year that I was getting marry and my father was walking me down the aline and thin he vanish. I was not sure what the Lord was trying to tell me. Two weeks before my father die I got a phone call from my father letting me know he had pancreatic cancer. He told me to let my brother if he did get to talk to him that he “Love” very much. I keep asking what stage was the cancer in he would not tell me. I believe “GOD” let me hear my father for the last time as a birthday gift to me. My birthday November 22 I usually get a birthday card and $100.00 from my father but “GOD” gave me the best gift of all voice of my father before he passed away. As we talked I as my father was he save he void the question but I let him know that I want him to go to heaven with us. I pray that he asked “GOD” forgiven before he left this earth. I always asked myself if my father said the sinner prayer before he passed away. I believe in my heart he is save and in heaven.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Tessie Stanford
This Little Light of Mine
As a child, we used the King James Version and I never realized that there were other Bibles. After I turned 18, I left home and rebelled against going to church and reading the Bible. Then at age 26 I got married. We had already lived together 6 years so I didn’t think anything would change. Marriage is a crazy thing and I soon realized that dealing with a marriage without God is a setup for disaster. I started going back to church within months but still not reading the bible. Going to church was not enough; I needed to know the Word for myself so that I could use it. One day in Bible study my friend Leaya read a scripture and it made so much sense. It didn’t sound like that old language I was used to hearing with the King James. So later I asked her what book was she was using and sure enough it was the NLT. She told me about how much it helped her so I ran out and bought one. All I can say is OH MY GOD!! My understanding of the scriptures is so much more in depth than it was before. The stories just come to life in this Bible and I can relate that Bible to situations I am going through. I have been able to help and encourage so many people with the passages out of it. I receive a breakthrough everyday that I read it so I read every day!! It truly prepares me for the spiritual warfare I go through daily. This book is so great that I gave a few friends copies for Christmas last year. I have a fire in me and it continues to grow. I am truly having a love affair with God and it feels so God. My blessings and spirit have poured over into my husband and he loves it too. At first he would only read King James but now I catch him in my book. God answers all prayers because I would never have thought that my marriage would have survived but it is going strong. We love each other, we worship together, and we reading NLT together. I just thank God for the Word but I also thank God for this version because I am not sure if I would be at this level of understanding without it. Praise God and be blessed Love Tess
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Jason Lang
The Word of God Speaks!
As a husband, father of three, associate pastor and as of this year a pre-field missionary, my life is pretty crazy. It’s pretty easy to get stressed out and overwhelmed by the tasks at hand. Not to mention with the continual ministry to others, my spiritual tank gets a little low every now and then. Daily time in God’s Word is a must because it speaks to us in a powerful, convicting and clarifying ways. However, there are times when I feel like I just need to “soak” in God’s Word for an extended period of time. When I’ve actually taken the time to do this,
Name: Jason Lang
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Kevin Miller
The Bible is finally coming alive!
I used the KJV for years and found it was hard to just pick it up and read it. When I started reading the NLT, things started coming alive and painting pictures in my head like never before. I was noticing things for the first time that I had missed with years of reading the KJV. I’m a very visual person and the archaic words in the KJV were never able to put a real clear picture in my mind of what it was talking about. With the clear, everyday language style of the NLT, I’m finally able to gain a clear and immediate understanding of God’s Word.
Monday, November 16, 2009Bonnie LambertThe B-I-B-L-E, yes That’s the book for me!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by Contest Participant
I am a child of the KING! I also am a Deaf Interpreter raised with the precious King James Version. My husband is a Pastor who uses the Precious King James Version from the pulpit. BUT as an Interpreter I found in Deaf Sunday school class they could not follow the King James Version without most of my time used in explaining words. I LONGED for them to get a thirst for reading the Bible at home, alone, as a couple, or with their family. I found the King James was all hard words to them, and very little understanding. The Value of the readable translation was again LOUDLY pointed out when children came to our Sunday school who knew NOTHING about Church or the Bible. They looked blank when I tried to read or teach a memory verse from the King James. I found myself spending way too much time just explaining the words, when I wanted to show them they could read the Bible for themselves at home and learn about God. They could not do this without a readable Bible. So although the King James is DEAR to MY OWN heart, the NLT has been vital in outreach. My life verse is John 3:30, “He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.”
