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REVIEW:I cannot recommend Jim Robbins’ book “Recover Your Good Heart” highly enough. With profound insight, compassion, and solid biblical support; he resurrects one of the most forgotten and overlooked truths in our day — We are not the same people coming out of conversion that we were going in! Our sin nature and old heart are not eradicated but they are offset with a glorious, unalterable, supernatural reality. We have new hearts, new inclinations, and a new identity. We are far more than forgiven sinners. We are renovated saints with new hearts, good hearts; which come wholly through the Holy Spirit. Thank you Jim for reminding us that our hope for godliness is not gritting our teeth and trying harder. It is falling back on the resources and power of our good heart, the “heart of flesh”, birthed at conversion and appropriated throughout our lifetime. A great work!Dwight Edwards, author of Revolution Within
and advisor to Larry Crabb
www.kindlingforthefire.com
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I live in the UK and would love to get further copies here to give to friends and others. I also do the buying for a Christian bookshop that’s part of the large mission organisation that I work for (YWAM) and would love to recommend and sell many copies.
I loved the book! It’s refreshingly true, telling me that I’m actually ‘more than ok’, and the way the Father truly sees and relates to me. It builds up self-esteem by renewing the mind with what is actually fact, not just platitudes. I underlined most of it, and have lent it to a friend who I warned about the underlining… but this book needs to get on the market as it’s unique and just lending it to friends isn’t enough!
I’ve gone back over and over to my underlinings, and to contemplate the context of the underlinings, and every time it seems that the truth penetrates even deeper - truly Scriptural, as my life changes a little more each time. How can I find the words to affirm you for the words you’ve put to paper?
I am also a Biblical counsellor and train other counsellors, so the book will become one of my ‘I urge you to read this’ books. It really is a ‘must read if you want to change’ book. The world and the Church constantly tell us how bad we are by comparing us to some unreal perfect entity that is supposed to exist somewhere, driving us to perform urgently and stressfully in order to hope for some kind of acceptance. This book brings the Father’s unconditional and freeing love and acceptance, and immense healing grace, to the deep places of the heart, bringing the revelation necessary to break the heavy load of constant striving.
Jenny L.
Harpenden, U.K.
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“’Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.’ In my practice as a Christian Counselor, I often hear that my clients still think of themselves as a wretch; shameful and dirty. They tell me that they are “sinners saved by grace” and that their “heart is deceitful above all things.” But that is who they were, not who they are now.
Kim West, M.Div.
Phoenix, AZ
www.make-my-Christian-life-work.com
www.solutions-Christian-counseling.com
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A few months ago I was having a conversation with a very close family member. He responded to something I said with, “The heart is desperately wicked.” That comment never sat well with me, but I didn’t know why. [Recover Your Good Heart] has put words to that discomfort and has taught me where it came from - from a new, good heart placed in me by a loving, good God so He and I can relate in a new way. As a result, I am free, and you can be too! Thank you, Jim Robbins!
Chris Pack
Woodland Park, CO
http://1freebeliever.blogspot.com/
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Ah, yes…thanks for referencing my recommendation of “Recover Your Good Heart.” Yes! I suggest it for everyone! Growing up in the modern church, I was taught (repeatedly) that my heart was so foul, evil and awful. Thus, if one is told that, one eventually believes that and thus, LIVES like that. It was when I read this book, that the Holy Spirit so beautifully showed me that upon salvation, I Papa gave me HIS heart which is TOTALLY and completely good. After all, God is only love. And God gives only that which is GOOD. And because upon salvation I received a totally new heart, it was a heart filled with the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Thus, KNOWING this and BELIEVING this absolute truth, I realized, was SO incredibly important for me to realize WHO I am and that I have a good heart. Once I GOT this, it completely blew my mind–for the good. It helped me gain confidence so that I don’t spend my days beating myself up, or living up to the “bad” heart I thought I used to have. I realize now, that I have the CHOICE to live in congruence to my good new heart or live according to my old heart, which has been cast to the margins/edges. Yes, unfortunately at times, I do sin –which in those moments, I traveled to that margin old heart, and acted in congruence to it. But, every single time I sin, it’s NOT in congruence to my good (Spirit-filled heart) and thus I immediately feel convicted, b/c what I did was not good/love.
Amy C.,
Surprise, AZ
http://amyiswalkinginthespirit.blogspot.com/
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“‘Restoration,’ ‘recovery,’ ‘revival’ are buzzwords in church circles these days but most of what is being preached from pulpits is just recycled versions of the phrase “God is good, you are bad, try harder”. Jim Robbins adds his thoughts to the growing number of believers who are finding out that our life in Jesus is not about more effort and busyness but about the discovery that we are loved by our Father who is ready to share His life with us without restraint. It reminds me of the scene from the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in which the stone statues in the courtyard of the witch’s castle are breathed upon by Aslan and brought back to life. This book is life-giving.”
Fran M.,
Portland, OR
“If you have ever been to church and left feeling empty, condemned, tired, or not good enough; this is an essential read. As Christians we sometimes forget God’s promises of forgiveness and feel as though we have to do things to earn God’s love. Well, we don’t! Neither do we have to work to “be better”. God gave us a good heart. This book is an up-lifting read that uses scripture and Biblical truth to show us the goodness of our hearts accomplished by God’s work and that we are fully approved and accepted by him. Recover Your Good Heart will reveal Biblical truths to you and encourage you to live from your heart. I cannot recommend it more.”
Tampa, FL
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“An eye-opening and encouraging offer of hope for those of us who have tried, through our own efforts, to be a “good” Christian and have known the shame and guilt of failing. “Recover Your Good Heart” helps us recover the rest of the truth of the Gospel (that God changed us and placed in us a piece of Himself, His heart, upon salvation) and teaches us that we can live from this goodness and not from our old ways. A much-needed message for new and long-time Christians alike.”
Hartford, CT
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