The author wrote this book to help those who are searching for a definitive answer to the question, "Is there a God?" and "How Can I know for sure that there is a God?"
Of course, there will always be those who dispute that we can ever know 100 percent whether there is a God this side of the grave. Yet, this book shows the reader that, as far as our subjective experience is concerned, we can know God through experiencing him personally. Therefore, this book will be a great primer to help those who cannot see the need nor cannot experience God. So, as well as helping Non-Christians it will give Christians an arsenal of Bible Scriptures for helping those who struggle with their faith as well as to challenge gently those who are outside the faith.
Therefore, this book shows you the practical steps to experiencing God's love and his presence in your life and explains in practical terms how to facilitate that change; in other words, how to open up your spirit to the grace of Jesus Christ so that you can receive his revelation into your mind and spirit.
What makes this book unique is the way it presents both sides of the debate. Let me quote from one reviewer who wrote the following:
"I love the persuasive nature of this book. It approaches truth in a direct way while maintaining a respectful attitude. There is no judgment toward the reader, but Briscoe makes the truth very clear. He uses evidence from multiple historical figures as well as scripture from the Bible. For those who want to make their lives count and are considering Christianity, this is a great primer to get you started. For current believers, it’s a wonderful way to add tools to your scripture-defense toolbelt."
My favourite part is when I give my testimony of how God changed me and regenerated my heart - when nothing less than a miracle occurred in my heart and I became born- again when God's Spirit entered my spirit and I became God's son.
In the year 1987, I became a follower of Christ. Yet, prior to that, as I had been born in England, I had always thought that I was a Christian because I had thought, mistakenly, that being born in England made you a Christian; until then in 1987, I found out the truth that being born in England didn’t make you a Christian as much as going to Macdonald’s Hamburger Restaurant didn’t make you a hamburger, or just as going to church didn’t make you a Christian as much as going to KFC made you a chicken; so when I filled out a form, under the question, “What is your religion?” I would always write, “Church of England,” or “C of E” until, in 1987, I realized that was a wrong concept, for true religion isn’t about a denomination like Church of England, but rather a relationship with Jesus Christ where he becomes the most important component, the number one ingredient in my life, i.e. the linchpin which smoothes out all my problems when I hand them over to him; because then my problems become his problems, and his shoulders are much wider than mine and he knows what to do with all those problems and how to overcome them, because of the fact that he is always sitting on his throne, so everything, including all problems has to submit to him, and this is empowering when we experience this truth for ourselves.
As for me, at the age of 19, I found a supercharger for my life called the Holy Spirit who, in case some of you don’t know, is the third person of the God-head theologians call the Trinity; once he connected with me, then I experienced what I can only describe as a supercharging power for my life which meant my entire perspective on life changed and it was like physically I was transferred from the doldrums of the deepest valleys of despair to the heights of ecstatic joy, when I received Jesus Christ by the power of his Spirit filling my own spirit; quelling all my fears and tears, and giving me the one commodity which most people are pursuing but few find until they allow his Spirit to deposit into them his physical peace; I can’t tell you enough how that feels to you, all I can say is when the Holy Spirit imparts to me his Holy peace, I feel the greatest comfort, joy and peace, and then, I catch glimpses of the depths of his love for me.
If you have never experienced that for yourself, then you will, no doubt, find it difficult to understand what I am talking about, because these words concern the language of the Spirit and Spiritual matters, which mere flesh or our natural mind cannot understand; but the good news is you will understand when you become born-again of your spirit, when God the Holy Spirit fills your spirit and makes your dormant spirit come alive, which is called being “born-again” when his Spirit regenerates your spirit and you are regenerated with his life – when God turns everything in your life the right way up, and so you see the world the way he sees the world governed not by mere Worldly laws but by the Kingdom of God, where the power of his love overcomes every problem. And once you receive that unconditional and unlimited love in your spirit then you can love your enemies with that same love, and you can love God and love yourself with that same love, you can forgive by an act of your will just as God chose to love you and me by an act of his will.
Now I was able to give someone all my burdens and worries, and exchange them with my own love and allegiance, and receive the most profound yet real and tangible peace; because his shoulders hold up the universe, he was able to hold me up and pull me through my circumstances when, on my journey of life, I faced the harshest of circumstances, because his shoulders were big enough. When I met the one person who I have experienced to be my greatest comfort in my distress, the greatest alleviator in my stress, and the greatest enabler, the greatest peace-giver and comfort-giver, to give me power to overcome. And because then, I had someone to pray to and surrender all my heavy burdens and distress to, my health, my well-being - both my mental and physical as well as spiritual health went from strength to strength.
And when I experienced his overwhelming peace, I began to feel the feeling of what it feels to be satisfied that someone bigger and greater, and more capable than me was on my case and working on my behalf to move heaven and Earth, or rather to bring heaven to Earth through my faith connection and begin to see all the cobwebs of my life disappear.
I don’t know if you believe in God or not. But this book is to help anyone who is struggling to believe. Some people don't believe in God because they can’t see him, which is a valid reason until you realize that you don’t need to see him to believe – you can discern him with your other faculties, like in your spirit and in your feelings which God the Holy Spirit will reveal to us.
While for others, they don’t want to know him and they would refuse to believe in him even if God visited their bedroom, tonight, unless he convicted them of their great need of him by his Holy Spirit penetrating their stubborn, cold hearts, when the Spirit showed them his great, personal love, and they were moved to repentance.
As for me, God himself has persuaded me that he is alive in my life personally, and this is a story of how he did just that. I wrote this to tell you my experience; maybe some of you dear ones don't believe in God, well that's your prerogative, but if ever you need help in believing, God's your man, or rather Jesus Christ is your man. And the best and right way to get that ball rolling in that direction is to just send a prayer up to him asking for help, asking him to show you that he is alive, and not just alive but alive in your life, personally in such a way that, even if you were the only person living, he would have still come and died for you personally. As long as that prayer you send him is sincere and has even the smallest measure of faith, then he will answer you.