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A Sudden Glory: God's Lavish Response to Your Ache for Something More

By: Sharon Jaynes

Multnomah Books / 2012 / Paperback

5 out of 5 stars (10 Reviews)

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Product Description

Do you feel spiritually empty even though you're doing and believing all the "right" things? Jaynes invites you to experience God's presence, power, and love like never before! Explore what it means to truly live in God, which will ultimately lead you to an encounter with the Lover of your soul. Includes chapter-by-chapter group discussion guide.

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Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Vendor: Multnomah Books
Publication Date: 2012

Dimensions: 8.00 X 5.19 (inches)
ISBN: 1601424086
ISBN-13: 9781601424082
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Publisher's Description

Do you long for something more in your relationship with God?

The good news is that "something more" does not mean "doing more." God is not waiting for you to get your spiritual life "right." He wants to be with you right where you are.

The real question is not "What does God want from you?" but "What does God want for you?"

Sharon Jaynes understands what it’s like to have a "glory ache"—a longing to experience God’s presence on a daily basis. She also knows how easily working for God can get in the way of intimacy with God. And she’s discovered that we tend to make our faith journey much too hard.

In A Sudden Glory, Sharon uses Scripture and story to help you erase the line between your "spiritual life" and your "daily life" as you enter the sanctuary of God’s presence even in the middle of your busy, messy day. Here you will find your eyes opened to moments of sudden glory in which the Creator assures you of His love as you live and move and have your being in Him. Here you will discover true freedom—the freedom of experiencing God in a deeper and more intimate way than ever before.

Includes Bible study and discussion guide.

Author Bio

Sharon Jaynes is an international conference speaker and the author of seventeen books. She served as vice-president and radio co-host of Proverbs 31 Ministries for ten years and is a popular guest on Christian radio and television programs such as Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey, and Focus on the Family. Sharon is the co-founder of Girlfriends in God, a ministry that crosses denominational, generational, and racial boundaries to bring the Body of Christ together.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for A Sudden Glory

"How do we awaken to the transforming glory of God that is all about us? Heavenly seraphim proclaim that the earth is full of His glory—but why do we miss it? More important, how do we awaken to Jesus, who ’is the radiance of the glory of God’? In A Sudden Glory, Sharon Jaynes lifts the veil—and invites us right into His heart, where He speaks to our persistent ache for something more."
     —Ann Voskamp, author of One Thousand Gifts

"In A Sudden Glory, Sharon Jaynes reminds us that the ’ache for meaning beyond the dailyness of life’ is only found by embracing God’s passionate desire for intimacy. This book is a treasure!"
      —Carol Kent, speaker and author of Between a Rock and a Grace Place

"There’s no doubt about it; Sharon Jaynes’s latest project is a love story. It’s about a glorious Prince named Jesus, who is passionately wooing a world full of Cinderellas. The only problem is so many of these would-be princesses have amnesia and have forgotten the sacred romance they’ve been supernaturally written into. A Sudden Glory set off an alarm in my sleepy heart and reminded me to run toward the intimate embrace of our Redeemer!"
      —Lisa Harper, Bible teacher, Women of Faith speaker, and author of A Perfect Mess

"Cease striving. Such refreshing words in a culture that seems to breed the philosophy that the more you do, the more you get. Sharon Jaynes reminds us that our spiritual yearning for more is not satisfied by checking off a to-do list of religious accomplishments. She brings us to a fresh and freeing understanding that ’in Him we live and move and have our being.’ The beautiful message of A Sudden Glory continually reminds us of the great love our Father has lavished upon us as His children and the joy of abiding in His presence."
      —Karol Ladd, author of The Power of a Positive Woman

"If you ache for something more, something deeper, something greater, something glorious in life and in your walk with God, Sharon Jaynes pulls back the curtain on the heart of God and all He has awaiting you! Don’t settle for the mundane—live glorious! Thanks, Sharon, for helping us travel away from the ordinary, everyday, commonplace, humdrum, dull routine into God’s great, grand, and glorious expedition!"
      —Pam Farrel, speaker and author of 10 Secrets to Living Smart, Savvy, and Strong

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A Sudden Glory: God's Lavish Response to Your Ache for Something More 4.8 5 10 10

If you've been feeling like there should be more in your relationship with God but you don't know where to start, start with your Bible and Sharon Jayne's "A Sudden Glory". Using Acts 17:28 as her base, Sharon relates how living in God will fill the "there should be more" gaps. Well written, well backed by Scripture. Has a great discussion guide in the back for individual study or small groups. In fact, that's part of what took me so long to finish this book, the study questions in the back. They really bring it full-circle and help you understand the concepts in the chapters better. Disclaimer: I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. February 21, 2013

encouragement for the spiritual ache in your heart Have you felt like there is something missing in your spiritual life? You know you should be feeling something more in our Christian life. It is a common cry of the heart, Sharon writes. Ã¢ÂÂYou long to feel close to God but sense there's just something lacking, that you've missed the mysterious formula to make it happen.Ã¢ÂÂ (4) Acts 17:28 came to Sharon's mind. She meditated on it for a year. Ã¢ÂÂI came to realize that what He wants for us is to sense His presence, experience His love, and delight in intimate relationship as we live and move and have our being in sacred union with Him.Ã¢ÂÂ (9) She writes of those moments when God makes Himself known personally Ã¢ÂÂ a sudden glory. Her aim in this book is that we will be reminded of God's passionate pursuit of our heart and that we would let ourselves be caught all over again. She explores what it means to be in union with Christ. She helps us see how to receive the sudden glory moments in Bible reading, prayer, circumstances, creation, and people. Ã¢ÂÂGod has pulled out all the stops,Ã¢ÂÂ Sharon writes, to reveal glimpses of His glory.Ã¢ÂÂ (66) We are just not paying attention. She challenges readers to get a notebook or journal and begin chronicling how God makes Himself known. Ã¢ÂÂWhen your union with God is restored through your relationship with Jesus, when in Him we live and move and have our being becomes a reality in your life, your ears will hear, your eyes will see, and your senses will detect the glory of the Lord turning ordinary days into extraordinary treasures.Ã¢ÂÂ (69) This is a very encouraging book. Sharon uses many of her own experiences to illustrate becoming aware of those moments of sudden glory. She has a very good section on suffering. Ã¢ÂÂCould it be that the puncture wounds in the canvas of your life Ã¢ÂÂ the losses, the disappointments, the crushing blows Ã¢ÂÂ might actually become the rent places of the soul through which you can see God?Ã¢ÂÂ (133) In addition to the encouraging nature of the book itself, there is a twenty four page study guide at the end of the book that would be great for personal or group study. This book would make an excellent choice for a woman's small group. I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for the purpose of this review. January 16, 2013

Living, and Moving, and Having our Being. A Sudden Glory is an almost poetic book, the theme of this book being that God pursues us, that God shows us His Glory, that we have a Glory Ache, a longing for God to fill. God pursues us for He has been pursuing the human heart through the centuries, as Sharon reminds us. "The entire Bible from Genesis Three to Revelation 22:21 is a record of God's passionate pursuit of the human heart. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, a string of kings both good and bad, intermingled with prophets both wooing and warning God's people. We ended the last chapter of the Old Testament with silence. And then four hundred years later God breaks the Holy Hush with the Cry of a Babe in a manger as the story picks back up in Bethlehem." The greatest Saints have always know they are pursued. Saints have always called us the Beloved, the Bride of Christ the Bridegroom. Spurgeon's best sermons, I think, are on the Song of Songs. A W Tozer knew how to pray that he would be pursued. Francis Thompson wrote The Hound Of Heaven, the poem about our flight from God, the relentless Pursuer. This is Sharon's prayer, that we would know we are pursued by God and we would respond. Many women have come to Sharon and asked her how to feel closer to God. They all have one thing in common, they have a Glory Ache. They have a hollowness in them that they need filled, and God alone can fill it. They want God to reveal Himself to them. And these are not wrong desires.It is not wrong to desire to know that God is pursuing us, it is not wrong to ask God to overwhelm us with Himself. It is not wrong to ask Christ to bind us on His arm as a seal, as a seal on His Heart. And that is the Promise we have! We have the promise that we can abide in Him. Not just during Church and spiritual activities, but during all of life. Pray without ceasing, Give thanks in everything. Sing to one another with Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs. These are things to be done all day as we go about our days. All these commands in the New Testament can be summed up in one verse. In God we Live and Move and Have our Being. Perhaps one of the reasons we do not feel God with us is that we have divided the Sacred from the Secular, forgetting that all work done to the Glory of God in noble and sacred. I love this Luther quote. "What you do in your House is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God.We should accustom our selves to think of our position and work as Sacred and well pleasing to God, not on account of the position or work, but on account of the Word and Faith from which the obedience and the work flow." When we Live and Move and have our Being in Christ, we have no secular days, for with Christ all is Sacred. Perhaps part of the reason we feel far from God is that we are not looking for Him? God is pursuing His children, all day and every day. We are not seeing God's love and gifts in the beauty of sunlight shining over the wood kitchen floor. Of making soup. Of seeing bulbs sprout. Of the glow of Christmas lights. This is all part of Living and Moving and having our Being in God. When we live in Christ, we find God lavishing His glory on our life. We find God with us in suffering and trial as well as times of peace. That is when the Sudden Glory comes. It is also worth thinking about how God speaks to us today. I do not believe that Christians are getting revelations from God, but I most certainly believe that God does reveal things to us through Scripture His perfect Word to His children, through circumstances- such as a loved one calling to give us a Scripture verse He had laid on their heart that very day, or a sparrow at our bird feeder that reminds us that a little sparrow cannot fall, unnoticed Lord by Thee, that is Sharon's perspective on this, when she says God speaks to us. I am glad I read this book, there is much meat in it December 17, 2012

Great book! My Rating: 4 stars! "A Sudden Glory: God's Lavish Response to Your Ache for Something More" by Sharon Jaynes is a fantastic book. It is centered on the words of Acts 17:28: "In Him we live and move and have our being." Jaynes digs into this verse and what it should mean in our daily lives as Christians. This book is a great resource for how to delve deeper into a relationship with Christ. She writes about experiencing the glories of Christ in everyday life through continual prayer, trusting God, having an attitude of gratitude, and seeking relationship instead of religion. As I read this book, I found it to be a great reminder of how to have an intimate relationship with Jesus. Jaynes writes from the heart, with personal experiences and the experiences of women who she ministers to. Her genuine passion for Christ and others shines through. "A Sudden Glory" is jam-packed with wisdom and great writing. I believe it will speak to both a new or "mature" Christian, as Jaynes uses both Scripture and experience to guide us in filling the "ache" we have to have a deeper relationship with our Savior and Lord. I recommend this book to anyone who truly seeks that. I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. October 15, 2012