Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. - Isaiah 60:1-2 In the midst of thick darkness, in a time of fear, uncertainty, stress, and confusion, the Lord is going arise upon us and express His glory through us. But is only going to happen with our active participation. Now is the time to get ready. The glory of God is not primarily seen in His power but in His love. If we are to be a part of the spread of His glory throughout the earth, we need to enter into a whole new realm of love. We need to arise and take our place as the Bride of Christ. We become children of God by right of our new birth through faith in Jesus. However, we only become the bride of Christ by right of the marriage covenant--an exclusive commitment to love Jesus with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. This is not a covenant for the casual believer. It costs us everything, but the reward it brings is a life of selfless love, joy, and unity with our Bridegroom. This book contains 30 devotional chapters that reveal God's passion to bring us into wholehearted love and intimacy with Jesus. Each chapter has reflections that are designed to connect readers with their Bridegroom. If you are hungry for the love of God; if you are willing to seek Him as your Bridegroom, then you will see your life forever transformed. This transformation will not come only from what you learn, but from encountering Jesus and receiving His glorious love. Jesus is waiting. If you can hear His call to arise and come away, this book is for you. Testimonies After spending seven years enslaved, Sarah escaped. Yet years later, she still constantly struggled with the pain of her past. One day she was given a copy of Bride Arise. As Sarah read the book, Jesus became real for her. He poured out His love upon her and took her on a rapid journey of radical transformation. Read inside to hear Sarah's testimony of overcoming tragedy and discovering Jesus as both her Healer and her Bridegroom! From the Author The whole of Scripture reveals a God of unimaginable love; One who created us as expressions of His love and who wants to share His love with us. The highest call for each of us-men and woman alike-is to accept His will and choose to love God with our entire being. If we are willing, He is able to make it a reality. This commitment to keep the greatest command is the covenant of the Bride. In our relationship with God, becoming the bride of Christ has nothing to do with our sexuality, but rather speaks of coming into a life of the wholehearted love, intimacy and unity with God. May the Lord give you a Spirit of revelation in the knowledge of His love. May He become more real to you than ever before. May He inspire you with His love and overwhelm you with His beauty. And may you find the thrill of discovering Jesus as your Bridegroom! I would love to hear about how God uses this book to bring you deeper into His love. So after you read this book, please feel free to email some feedback or leave your testimony in a review. All blessings and love in Christ! - Geoff (Jeff) Woodcock, author.

Believers, who have come to the one True God through faith in Yeshua (Jesus), have been grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel. Through the prophet Ezekiel, God told that He Himself would come and rescue His lost sheep and set one shepherd over them. When Yeshua came, He declared that He was that Good Shepherd and He had other sheep who were not Jewish; they must be brought into the fold also. This uniting of Jew and Gentile together in one Body is called the One New Man. Non-Jewish Believers have been kept separated from their Jewish Brothers for the past 1800 years. Much rich heritage was lost to the non-Jewish part of Messiah's Body. Yet God said that Messiah will be retained in Heaven until the complete restoration of everything He had spoken through the prophets was accomplished. It is the purpose of this book to restore the Body of Messiah to the understanding of the Jewish roots of their faith. May we be the answer to Yeshua's prayer that all who believe would become One in Him. DeeAnna Koven was born again at age five through the ministry of Jewish Evangelist Hyman Appelman. She began teaching in Sunday School at age 12, and continued throughout her life in churches and Messianic congregations. After Bible college and the Child Evangelism Fellowship Training Institute, she trained teachers in CEF, taught in a private church school, tutored missionary children in Spain, and taught in a Hebrew academy at Temple Aron HaKodesh in Lauderdale Lakes, FL, where she met and married Jack, her late husband of 28 years. This is her first published book.

Previous ed. entitled: Offbeat bride: taffeta-free alternatives for independent brides, 2007.

In the shifting sands of today's uncertain world, where traditional paradigms are fragmenting and everything seems in a state of flux, the biblical mountains endure as unshakable and steadfast. In their caves and canyons linger ancient voices that can startle us into new insights and awaken in us new ways of seeing the world and ourselves. In this book we go on a quest to locate the ancient voices of those who actually lived in these mountains, who knew both the physical contours and spiritual secrets of the summits and who long pondered their mysteries. We will rediscover texts and fragments that have been long forgotten in the West. The pandemic has filled the world with uncertainty and fear. We will discover wisdom and insights that are strikingly relevant to this unfolding world crisis and that speak with an uncanny directness to our situation. But the wisdom here is timeless and enduring, and readers will benefit from these ancient voices in all generations and in all sorts of circumstances. This book is not so much an anthology of forgotten voices as a sourcebook of spirituality and a guidebook for the spiritual adventure.

A study of the Song of Solomon, exploring how the romantic language is really symbolic of Christ and His bride, the Church, as it awaits a wonderful future in heaven. The message is really that, as the Bride, we the Church should be anxiously awaiting His soon return. There is a parallel here to the famous parable of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25; five were ready when the Groom arrived suddenly; five were not ready. Auch’s special insight into this difficult and often overlooked book will prove to be a rich vein of hope for the Church.

ST. BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS is a two-fold story: that of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France in 1858, as well as of the 14-year-old peasant girl—raised in dire poverty and unable to read—to whom Our Lady appeared. But more, it is also the story of St. Bernadette’s hidden life as a seemingly ordinary nun in her convent at Nevers, where she reached such holiness that after her death, God saw fit to preserve her body incorrupt—as it remains to this day! Beautifully set forth in this book are St. Bernadette’s childhood and life at home, her character—honest, intelligent and straightforward—her description of Our Lady, the events surrounding the 18 apparitions, the opposition of the civil authorities, and the shrine and miraculous spring at Lourdes. Also described are Bernadette’s life in the convent, where she suffered a martyrdom in body and in soul.