After God's Own Heart: The key to knowing and living God's passionate love for you [Hardcover]

Mike Bickle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 22, 2003

Imagine what it would be like to be singled out and given an awesome, almost unfathomable compliment...just like David. God is raising up believers and giving them hearts as He did for that shepherd boy who tended sheep and played his makeshift harp on the backside of Bethlehem. You can become a student of God's emotions and learn how godly commitment and obedience help you form a mature love. God is a God of gladness and infinite joy, but He still gets angry at rebellion. Thankfully, He recognizes the difference between rebellion and immaturity. EXPERIENCING GOD IS NOT AN OPTION! It s time for you to develop a heart that is anchored and sustained by an outrageous love that comes only from Him. Experience a transition that gives you a new passion, resulting in the fulfillment of God's promises. That is just the beginning. Invest time in understanding the happiness found in God's heart for you, and your own heart will experience a glorious awakening.

Format: HardBack

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From the Back Cover

David had a front-row seat into the fiery emotions of God's heart...and so can you.

David was many things: shepherd, psalmist, king...liar, murderer, adulterer. But most important of all, he was the only person in the Bible to be called a man "after God's own heart." Can you think of four more stunning words in all of creation?

What did he do right? David's secret is that he was energized by intimacy with God. He encountered the power of God's emotions, and it transformed his emotions for God and gave him an unfathomable spiritual identity.

You too can become a student of God's emotions and experience a transformation that imparts new passion, resulting in the fulfillment of God's promises in your life. Invest time in understanding the emotions found in God's heart for you, and your own heart will experience a glorious awakening. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Mike Bickle is director of the International House of Prayer of Kansas City, a 24-hour citywide spiritual warfare ministry. The author of several books, including Passion for Jesus, Growing in the Prophet and The Pleasures of Loving God, Bickle’s teaching emphasizes developing a passion for Jesus through the knowledge of God’s beauty. His specialty messages include the Bride of Christ, and the ministry of the forerunner in the context of a fasted lifestyle which proclaims Jesus as Bridegroom, King and Judge. He has a deep conviction of a victorious End-Time church.

 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Charisma House (December 22, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591852307
• ISBN-13: 978-1591852308
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really brings a Bible life "to life"!..., June 17, 2004

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Joshua Claassen (Norman, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After God's Own Heart: The key to knowing and living God's passionate love for you (Hardcover)

...The life of King David, that is. Bickle uses the story of King David's life, as well as the Psalms, to reveal a profound truth: why King David managed to possess one of the closest relationships to God in the Old Testament--and better still, how readers can emulate him in a New Covenant environment.

My only gripe with this book is a relatively minor one, but it is, nonetheless, the reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5. The practical steps to actually achieving what Mike Bickle promotes here are hidden somewhere in the text, and never stated up-front: in a chapter of their own, for example. Rather than do this, he brushes quickly by the practical issues in a matter of a paragraph or so. While the answer IS there, it becomes visible only to the dedicated searcher--or perhaps, to one inspired enough by his glowing portrait of God's affections on first reading of the book to read the book through a second time, and discover the practical application that way--which, given his motivation in writing the book in the first place, I suppose was his point: to create the wholehearted lovers of God he perceives David to have been the first of. A minor flaw, as I said--not enough to keep this from being a truly meaty read to any incipient "God-chasers" who happen to be reading this review! Buy it, and find the first "best-kept secret" of the Christian church: God actually _likes_ us!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOD'S GENTLENESS MADE DAVID GREAT!!!, February 25, 2005

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Heather Marshall Negahdar "Haze" (Bridgetown, Barbados) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After God's Own Heart: The key to knowing and living God's passionate love for you (Hardcover)

"Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children; because zeal for your house has eaten me up." Psalms 69. 7-9


I have never read anything from Mike Bickle, but I have to say for sure that I was very refreshed and blessed by this work AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART.

This book is based on the Life of King David who in the Bible and everywhere on earth, is known as the man after God's own heart. God had great love for this man David, who, despite what he was going through, always knew that God was there for him. He was never afraid to approach God, even when he had sinned and David like us was a man who had sin. But he was always quick to repent, for he trusted God and loved God greatly. Many of us sin but we are always afraid that God is too much into punishing us that He does not have time to forgive. Not so with David. David loved God passionately and his heart was fixed on God. God had chosen David while he was still tending sheep and perhaps it was God's constant and attentive love along with His protective arm around David from this time and right through the battles of his life that David was ever aware of, more than most people are. David knew how to confront God in weakness for we went after God in a big way. He was in constant prayer and fasting, and had a zeal for building a placeof worship and prayer, a zeal for building God's temple.
While everyone was looking for the mistakes that David had made, David got on with his life pursuing God and clinging to him in body mind and soul, begging to be cleansed, begging to be perfect in His sight.

There is so much to learn from this book and I will suggest this fine material for all Christains and the newly Born Again.
Good move Mr Bickle!!!
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 25/02/05)

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breaking down lies of the deceiver!, June 1, 2004

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Gerdi Klaus (A South African in Fort St John, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After God's Own Heart: The key to knowing and living God's passionate love for you (Hardcover)

The Truth has set me free! Never in my life have I experience Jesus so real before. His love has flooded my entire being, and my capacity to love Him back has increased and deepend beyond words!This is a book for anyone who has been caught up in "works/religion", and trying to win God's love with following a set of rules. His waves of love will crush those walls as soon as you let Him!