Thank you so much for using the OVERCOMER'S BOOK GROUP AND PRAYER JOURNAL, companion to Walking Through FIRE. You have made a wise decision. The book's richness needs to be soaked up and the Overcomer's Journal is designed for immersing yourself deep in the waters of God's peace, love, and joy. With it we will find comfort and revelation. Walking Through FIRE is meant to be shared with your most cherished and trusted relationships. And it is meant to help you develop more trusted relationships with those who have the capacity to share your journey. That is how deep meaningful relationships are formed. We must share one another's lives. Our burdens. And our triumphs. There is no closer friend than one who walks with you in both seasons of defeat and seasons of victory. And those friends are rare. So let's get started forming them now. Let's walk through fire together. To get started I suggest that you read with at least one other trusted friend, preferably a person with whom you are able to vent and be completely vulnerable. As you are reading, begin to plan who you would like to have come together to form an Overcomer's Book Group. It is important to be able to share secret hurts and deep thoughts while reading for complete healing of the soul with this group. The Overcomer's Journal includes suggested book group guidelines and questions. I would strongly advise book groups of no more than 8-11 people. Also, remember to unite in prayer asking the Holy Spirit for revelation, guidance, and healing each time you read this book and in each book group gathering. Each chapter speaks to specific needs and has a completely different purpose of ministering while you are Walking Through FIRE. Some chapters and passages may take more time and of course, the group may choose completely different passages of the book to delve into. Encourage members of the Overcomer's Group to stretch. Savor each sentence. The group may determine to gather more often or to start other Overcomer's Groups after the experience with Walking Through Fire. The Overcomer's Journal includes: *Book Group Guidelines *Overarching Questions to Spark the Discussion *Suggested Passages and Questions per Chapter to Spark Discussion *Space to Journal the Journey with Thoughts and Prayers If you do not have a friend who will read the book together with you at this time, make sure you stay connected with me online at drlisaministries.org. I want to be present with you on your journey, to connect with you at eye level. I am sharing my Walk Through FIRE, for I hope that the Holy Spirit can use it to minister to your life. My own fire experience will be much more worth it if I know that it helps you. I pray the transparency and vulnerability in the pages in this book encourage you and give you revelation in areas of need. Even though we have yet to meet, I pray for you right now, that God would put this book in your hands and give you supernatural strength to make you an overcomer. Allow Walking Through Fire to be a literary treasure you return to often.

The astonishing, Job-like story of how an existence filled with loss, suffering, questioning, and anger became a life filled with shocking and incomprehensible peace and joy. Vaneetha Risner contracted polio as an infant, was misdiagnosed, and lived with widespread paralysis. She lived in and out of the hospital for ten years and, after each stay, would return to a life filled with bullying. When she became a Christian, though, she thought things would get easier, and they did: carefree college days, a dream job in Boston, and an MBA from Stanford where she met and married a classmate. But life unraveled. Again. She had four miscarriages. Her son died because of a doctor's mistake. And Vaneetha was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, meaning she would likely become a quadriplegic. And then her husband betrayed her and moved out, leaving her to raise two adolescent daughters alone. This was not the abundant life she thought God had promised her. But, as Vaneetha discovered, everything she experienced was designed to draw her closer to Christ as she discovered "that intimacy with God in suffering can be breathtakingly beautiful."

Will you make it through? Will the depression and pain ever leave? Does it seem life has lost all meaning, never to be enjoyed again? When you are WALKING THROUGH FIRE, you think you may not even make it out alive. If you do, you feel your damage and loss may be too great to overcome. You did not see it coming. In its element of surprise, it is deceptive, divisive, destructive, and deadly. The realization dawns that some fires are a source of evil. You need strategies to fight, for the fire seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. Fire increases in intensity when fueled, and it causes you to want to give up. When surrounded by flames, you must know that you are not alone in the experience. Others have preceded you and overcome more trauma than you can imagine. Yet they survived. Many have thrived. Knowing their difficulties and accompanying them through their fire can get you through yours. Dr. Lisa Hamm wrote this book after a prolonged walk through fire. In the book she states, "In my IT, or rather my series of ITs, if you will, I landed in the middle of a flaming inferno. A fiery furnace so intense I could neither see nor breathe. My sole goal was to get out alive as soon as I could, but I could not. I was stuck. I was alone. Standing still did not help. I was desperately trying to move in all directions, hoping to find the exit, but I did not. My panic rose when I realized my powerlessness. All my resources had been used up, and I became angry, desperate, deeply depressed, and in a state of despair to the point that I prayed my life would end." Whether you or someone close to you has undergone tremendous loss, suffered from a debilitating illness, endured overwhelming hardship, lacked the resources to defend themselves from enemies, or dealt with terrible consequences for a poor decision, this book is for you! Read every sentence closely and enjoy the encounters with God in each chapter. They are present because God wants to heal your wounds and deliver you from whatever may be holding you back. If you are still in the fire, continue to walk. Hold this book in your hand with the Word of God and allow the pain and anguish you are feeling to make you cling to Him. You will persevere. You will overcome. Eventually you will walk out of the fire into the greatest season of your life and you will not smell of smoke. This book is also strongly suggested for book groups of 8-11 people. If possible, use the companion to this book, the OVERCOMER'S JOURNAL. The Overcomer's Journal includes suggested book group guidelines and questions. It also has room for recording your prayers and thoughts on your reading journey. It is best that some of the subject matter is processed with other mature Christians. Walking Through Fire is a literary treasure to return to often.

In WALKING THROUGH FIRE and the included "Apply It Now" guide, Kirby King provides practical tips and activities that challenge readers to find the good God is up to in the midst of the not so good. Support groups have benefited by using this book as a guide, working through issues like forgiveness, guarding our tongues and avoiding isolation.

Offers a guide to fighting back against Satan's temptations though the use of prayer, outlining advice on developing personal prayer strategies to counter the enemy's diverse assault strategies.

For almost three thousand years, people have prayed and sung the Psalms. Like those who have gone before us, when we are filled with joy, we will discover fuel in these ancient songs for even higher praises. And when we are going through the valley of deepest darkness, we will find in the Psalms light shining upon us, driving the shadows of doubt away. Prayers on Fire includes 365 prayers inspired by the book of Psalms from the heart-felt Passion Translation. Each day contains an excerpt from the Psalms and then a prayer from the heart, providing an expression of faith and worship for sincere worshipers. Open your heart as you open the pages of this book. Here you will find God as your shelter of strength. “As I’m hidden within your greatness, I discover your eternal purposes. In love and humility I bow before you, my awe-inspiring God. The way you watch over me, infuses me with confidence and courage. You are my source; I draw life from the waters of your love. Walking step by step with you brings me joy unlike I’ve ever known. Your Word illuminates my path, and wherever I go, I flourish. No matter the season, I’m blessed—established firmly in you.” (Inspired by Psalm 1:2)

Ephesians reveals three great items in the New Testament: the Body of Christ, the Spirit, and the new man. Each of these items is uniquely one and ultimately related to Christ. The Body of Christ is the fullness of Christ, the One who fills all in all. The Spirit imparts the divine life, which contains the elements of Christ's divinity, humanity, death and resurrection, into the members of His Body, and this impartation of life produces a corporate expression of Christ that is displayed in and through the one new man. In One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man Witness Lee shows how the Body of Christ becomes His fullness through the believers' enjoyment of Christ. As we experience His boundless and immeasurable riches through the Spirit, we are reconstituted as members of His body, and as we take Him as our life and our person, the one new man in the universe comes into being in a practical way.