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Beyond the Veil: Entering Into Intimacy with God Through Prayer

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Years of a thristy heart and no one to define this yearning, I was filled with wonder and unspeakable joy when I read this book and found the answers to my many questions. When there were years of a deep calling in the heart and a unexplainable love for God and no one to define this aching,it was like sighing in relief as I read the very things that God had been doing in and through me was not my imagination but and an actual experience with the Holy One.

There are many men and women who have had as deep and abiding relationship with the Sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ. To actually put down on paper this life experience of relating to God on a personal bases would refresh the mind and bring delight to the heart. Like one receiving a cool drink of water, this book settled any question of scriptural correctness in relating to God, the Father.

It is unfortunate that there has not been sufficient scriptural teaching on prayer but this book opens the door to freeing the heart and the longing to please God. Also it releases the reader to find their God given expression and then to enjoy and release others to their God given expression.

I am sorry that some readers may take an offence to this book and the information inside. But let us be responsible readers and look up the scriptures for ourselves and see that God has laid out a pattern for relating to Him and He will never leave us without an answer. In the search for truth, God will not disappoint but meet us on that road to understanding. Thus He gives people who have walked before us and can point the way. We grant teachers the permission to mold our minds and provoke us to learn, should we not see these gifted men and women (like Alice Smith)as providers of instruction and education?

Thank you Alice Smith for being vulnerable and risking exposure of a deep and personal relatonship that many of us long for and have not yet known. This book will open the door to a journey filled with surpises and wonder, plus a depth of relating to God long awaited for.

It is a rare privelege to not only have had a book touch and change my life over the past ten years but also to know and be impacted by the life of the author, Alice Smith. Beyond The Veil shares the heart of a woman who has a passion for God, for His people and for lost souls. Making a way for others to walk in intimacy with God and receive His burden of love for others, is the heart of this book and ministry of Alice Smith. I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to learn more about walking closer to God and how prayer on behalf of others can touch and change the lives of many. Your life will never be the same after reading Beyond The Veil!

I don't know what book the previous reviewer read, but the Beyond the Veil, by Alice Smith that I read was deeply bathed with scriptural references. It not only was based in a biblical foundation, it literally draws you beyond the typical teaching on prayer and encourages you towards a greater understanding of God's desire for every Christian in prayer. I found that through the teaching is this book, my relationship with God was intensified and I began to see how God could use me to effectually partner with Him in prayer to see changes on our physical world and in the lives of the people around me. If you are desiring a deeper level of relationship with God, I urge you to get this book and begin to understand how to partner with God in intercession. If you put into practice what you learn from this book, you will experience the joy of seeing God working in the lives of those you interceed for and you will know by witnessing for yourself how God changes things when we partner with Him in prayer.

Do you remember what it's like to fall in love? The eagerness to finish with your daily duties so you could spend time with your beloved- the nervousness as you let your guard down and experienced yet another level of closeness with the one your heart was beginning to adore- the way not one thought was free of this budding love.... this is what I feel after reading this book. My head is full of knowledge of the Lord, but my heart was crying out for something more, something deeper than the love I have known thus far. I wanted more intimacy with my Lord, but I wasn't sure how to get there. God bless you Alice for showing me. I knew how to pray, but I didn't know how to enter in to the holy of holies and simply abide in the ecstasy of God's presence, free of self. You guys gotta try this!! I am reminded of some lyrics by Jennifer Knapp- "When nothing satisfies you, when nothing satisfies you- hold My hand." Just to be in the same room with God is like every bit of sweetness and light you have ever had in your life, held captive in a single moment. Since we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, the book starts in the outer court of our physical being, and progresses into the inner court of our soul (the mind, will, and emotions). At each turn Alice guides you over, through, or around the common traps and pitfalls that keep us trapped in these outer areas. By the end of the book you will have navigated through your outer courts, and be ready, perhaps for the first time, to enter into the inner sanctum- beyond the veil.... I absolutely guarantee you will not be dissapointed with what's inside!!!

All I can say is that this book is a timely birth. As creatures prone to mistakes, we can deliberately concoct a lot of undeserving scenes and excuses as to why God delays answers. However Alice does a simple and wonderful work by uprooting those types of false perceptions and ideologies and planting in us powerful truth.

This book is written because perhaps many of us are still lingering in the outer court. God Himself desires we come boldly before Him. The path towards His secret chamber requires only a step of simplicity and faith-filled attitude. Alice Smith is a saving rope from God to answer that cry of our heart in understanding the way to reach Him.

With joy elating testimonies, Alice has proven to us that the sincere cry of our heart can arrest the attention of God to change the prosaic condition of life. Even when we are inert because of pressure in life, rest assured God can also raise His own to pray on our behalf. This special group of people is called intercessors. By analogy, intercessors are liken the conscious and expressive voice of individuals, groups, races and nations who are lost in words, expression, identification or standing before God. Naturally this book is written from the window of an intercessor's view.

In the area of personal prayer, the practicality and step-by-step instructions is easily tantamount to a manual. I felt that Alice needs to tackle the subject of personal prayer because she knows very well that our prayer life can be infiltrated by the minute and trivial irritations that surrounds us. In personal prayer, we need to collapse our commitment into an intimate level with our Maker. Intimacy requires us to unwind in a place of quietness. i appreciate Alice's down to earth approach in giving good tips to keep ourselves free from the "noise" level that can easily distract our prayer life.

If you understand the intention of "Beyond the Veil", you'll soon realize that Alice is one of those rare ones who has learnt to read the heart of God accurately. As she understands the language of prayer, this book can teach you to be closer to God without shame or guilt.

A must read for any intercessor, or just any person who wants to grow more in prayer. A helpful book that covers all aspects of intercessory prayer. Examines different parts of prayer and types of prayer and helps you learn to pray. To P.U.S.H!

Beyond the Veil will help you understand prayer and the intercessor's ministry. There are questions at the end of each chapter and a Discussion Leader's Guide at the end of the book. A good book for individual reading or leading a study group. This book will strength your relationship with God and motivate you to spend time in His presence.

This is a must read book for any one searching for more of God. You will go deeper in your walk.

This book is awesome,I would recommend it to anyone who is serious about their relation with the Lord. Alice has a way of opening your spirit eyes, to really want to know the Father much more deeply. This book helped me to see that I had a long way to go,and that there was much more than I ever dreamed.My father is just as close as I want him to be. Sense I've read this book I have taken my prayer life to new levels,and it keeps getting better everyday. Thank You Father for her annointing being used to touch so many lives.

I don't know what book the previous reviewer read, but the Beyond the Veil, by Alice Smith that I read was deeply bathed with scriptural references. It not only was based in a biblical foundation, it literally draws you beyond the typical teaching on prayer and encourages you towards a greater understanding of God's desire for every Christian in prayer. I found that through the teaching is this book, my relationship with God was intensified and I began to see how God could use me to effectually partner with Him in prayer to see changes on our physical world and in the lives of the people around me. If you are desiring a deeper level of relationship with God, I urge you to get this book and begin to understand how to partner with God in intercession. If you put into practice what you learn from this book, you will experience the joy of seeing God working in the lives of those you interceed for and you will know by witnessing for yourself how God changes things when we partner with Him in prayer.