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This eight-week Bible study will help women deepen their relationship with Jesus.
Description:
Enter an eternal romance with Jesus that moves beyond mere sentimentality. Includes review and discussion questions.
• 8 weeks
An Undivided Heart
ISBN-13:
9781600063886
Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Cover: Paperback
128
Pages
$9.99
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Part of a Series
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Available in Spanish
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Customer Reviews
How's your heart?
An Undivided Heart: Experiencing the Intimacy of Jesus' Touch by Rita J. Platt (NavPress) is an 8-week Bible study series that challenges women to be honest with themselves and where their heart is focused - and with others if done in community! - when it comes to issues surrounding God's love for you, your love for God, surrendering, worship, what it means to be satisfied and joyful, trusting the Lord and living from your true identity.
It's an authetnic look at where you are at and how you connect with the God that passionately loves you more than you can even begin to fathom. Each chapter provides and introduction that gets you thinking about the topic, questions to start you reflecting on the situation, Scripture to ponder and more questions that bring the topic home to your own situation. Space to jot notes and pray is provided, allowing a participant to respond to what’s written and suggested. Personal stories and examples make the text accessible and meaningful, adding to the value of this study.
The book reminds us that when our foundation of our life is a relationship with Christ, we are freed to live courageously, loved and loving others. How’s your heart?
Posted by
Heather
on
10/26/2009 10:41:20 AM
A Wealth of Gems To Help Us Draw Close To God
Although this book is primarily written for women as a bible study material, as I reviewed it, I felt a gentle nudging in my heart too, to experience a deeper satisfaction in God's fountain of love. My heart leaped for joy in knowing, experiencing God's love. As I savored the Lord's feast, served through this book, I can't help, but conclude that this book, although originally written for women, is also a book for men too. After all, we as humans, collectively known as the Church, is the bride of Christ longing for the love of the Bridegroom. As the name suggests, this book is not to be read through quickly, but it is a bible study book, to be enjoyed, to be savored slowly. Basically, Week 1 starts off with knowing and experiencing the truth that we are the object of God's love. He longs to capture our hearts. He wants us to know that we are His beloved. Week 2 deals with the hindrances that block us from reaching the intimate relationship with God. Rita gently helps us to dissect through the dark layers of our hearts; helping us to allow ourselves to expose our everything to God. As mentioned in the book, at times, we ourselves are our own enemy. We are unable to forgive ourselves, thereby blocking the flow of God's love. God wants us to enter into that complete freedom that He has prepared for us. If Week 2 is about our past guilt and hurts that hinder us from reaching out to His love, Week 3 is about us seeking approval from others, performing to impress and please others. Week 4 is about voices and noises. Often times, there are so many noises and voices competing for our attention that we can totally miss out the still small voice of God. We need to be silent before Him. Be still to hear His voice. Week 5 is about attention. Too often, many things caught our attention, and we can become easily distracted by things that never truly satisfy. We need to fix our eyes on Jesus. Week 6 is about being satisfied. Often when we come to realize that nothing else truly satisfies, it dawns upon us that He is our True Living Water. We return to the Fountain of Life as often as we desire. Week 7 is about being held. Being held by the Love that refuse to let us go. As we "hold on" to Him, we realize that it is He who is holding on to us. We, therefore, need to constantly create that awareness that Christ is with us, Christ before us, Christ behind us, Christ in us, Christ beneath us, Christ above us, Christ on our right, Christ on our left, Christ when we lie down, Christ when we sit down, Christ when we arise. Week 8, the final week in this study, is about being betrothed. It is about living as the Beloved. It is about being loved, more than we can ever imagine. In summary, I am convinced that, except for the fact that the almost all the illustrations used in this book are stories of women, this book is definitely for men too. Men who are aware of their thirst for the Savior and Lord.
Posted by
Chew Keng Sheng
on
10/17/2009 1:56:10 PM
A Wealth of Gem To Help Us Draw Close To God
Although this book is primarily written for women as a bible study material, as I reviewed it, I felt a gentle nudging in my heart too, to experience a deeper satisfaction in God's fountain of love. As I savored the bits by bits of the Lord's feast, served through this book, I can't help, but conclude that this book, although originally written for women, is also a book for men too. After all, we as humans, collectively are known as the Church, which is the bride of Christ.
As the name suggests, this book is not to be read through quickly, but it is a bible study book, to be enjoyed, to be savored slowly.
Basically, Week 1 starts off with knowing and experiencing the truth that we are the object of God's love. He longs to capture our hearts. He wants us to know that we are His beloved. Week 2 deals with the hindrances that block us from reaching the intimate relationship with God. Rita gently helps us to dissect through the dark layers of our hearts; helping us to allow ourselves to expose our everything to God. As mentioned in the book, at times, we ourselves are our own enemy. We are unable to forgive ourselves, thereby block the flow of God's love. God wants us to enter into that complete freedom that He has prepared for us.
If Week 2 is about our past guilt and hurts that hinder us from reaching out to God's love, Week 3 is about us seeking approval from others, performing to impress and please others.
Week 4 is about voices and noises. Often times, there are so many noises and voices competing for our attention that we can totally miss out the still small voice of God. We need to be silent before Him. Be still to hear His voice. As Week 4 is about noises, Week 5 is about attention. Too often, many things caught our attention, and we can become easily distracted by things that never truly satisfy. We need to fix our eyes on Jesus.
Week 6 is about being satisfied. Often when we come to realize that nothing else truly satisfies, it dawns upon us that He is our True Living Water. We return to the Fountain of Life as often as we desire.
Week 7 is about being held. Being held by the Love that refuse to let us go. As we "hold on" to Him, we realize that it is He who is holding on to us. We, therefore, need to constantly create that awareness that Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise. Week 8, the final week in this study, is about being betrothed. It is about living as the Beloved. It is about being loved, more than we can ever imagine.
In summary, I am convinced that, except for the fact that the almost all the illustrations used in this book are stories of women, this book is definitely for men too. Men who are aware of their thirst for the Savior and Lord.
Posted by
Chew Keng Sheng
on
10/17/2009 1:33:42 PM
Women's Bible Study on Intimacy with Jesus
"An Undivided Heart" is a simple 8-week Bible Study for women with the purpose of helping women experience the intimacy of Jesus' touch. Platt guides the reader through how to experience Jesus using a short devotional, pondering scripture, reflecting on what you've read and responding with prayer.
Although the subject matter attracted me to the study, the target audience is for women who are new to the concept of intimacy with the Savior. The scripture references are mainly from The Message version and even though I have nothing against this version of the Bible, I don't particularly find it appealing to do a Bible study.
If you are new to the faith or trying to learn about experiencing a close relationship with Christ, this is the perfect Bible Study. However, if you have been walking with Christ for awhile the study is too simplistic. I did like the format and particularly the prayers at the end of each study. It is a great personal study and probably not very good to use as a group study as it tends to be personal and specific to the individual doing the study.
Posted by
Jill Potts Jones
on
10/13/2009 6:31:16 PM