When God Shows Up by R T Kendall

God's Nearness and Unexpected Encounters

R. T. Kendall, former pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, maintains that God shows up in numerous ways and at unexpected times in our lives. His book "When God Shows Up" offers suggestions to help the reader recognize these unexpected appearances of God. This is a book about renewal and of the blessing the Holy Spirit is bringing into the corporate life of the church body as well as in the lives of individual believers today.

Kendall uses scriptural examples as well as his own personal life experiences to illustrate how to listen for God, how to know what He is has said, and to know how to act in response to what He said.

Answered prayer, God's timing, and visiting angels all may be a part of the preparation for your journey into the unexpected. Elizabeth and Zechariah usher in the joy of an unexpected surprise as a direct answer to their prayer for a son. Abraham, Joseph, and Moses are other examples of men who experienced answered prayers based on God's timing.. Kendall shows consequences that can be avoided as we seek God's timing in seeing our prayers answered as we prepare for His unexpected appearances.

Trials, temptations, or encounters with the devil may be a part of the discipline necessary to prepare us for those unexpected appearances of God in our lives.

Kendall also discusses unexpected disruptions, obstacles to fellowship with God, accepting God's call, the prophetic word, achievement, witness, and the second coming of Christ.
"When God Shows Up" has opened a new sense of expectancy, in prayer, looking for answered prayer, as I draw nearer to God, listening for His instructions, as I meet strangers that may be angels unaware, and as I look heavenward for the return of Jesus.

R. T. Kendall encapsulates the longing of man for a bonding with God, in the love relationship God has provided through the gift of His Son Jesus.

Charisma House, 978-1599793429

As Reviewed for Midwest Book Review

Richard R. Blake, Christian Education Consultant, Book Store Owner