A Heart on Fire: You Are Chosen to Change the World by Glen Berteau Book Review

In A Heart on Fire, Glen Berteau revealed the truth about how we are all chosen by God and we are predestined to fulfill our mission and calling. He clarified how we need to be fed up with the things that are displeasing to God. He instructed us on how to have a revival and the part we all play in it. He discussed the wind, fire, power, and Lazarus revival. In the book, he opened up about how he stuffed from a sudden cardiac arrest. He died in his front seat of his car in his churches parking lot. The paramedics tried to save him for 45 minutes before they were finally able to save him. He died and was revived eight times. This event helped lead him to a heart on fire for God and a revival that needed to be born. 

 

 

 

He shared a personal story about seeing a person at the drugstore and he had a pull over hairdo, huge gauges in his ears, and a Satanic symbol tattooed on his arm. He explained how we are commanded to love others and not run from people who aren’t like us. We can’t avoid the sinners and tax collectors like Zacchaeus. He shared how he wanted to be known as the pastor who shared a meal with murders, prostitutes, tax collectors, and sinners. Jesus would often be associated with sinners and people who religious folks would often judge. He explored the teaching Jesus did on the lost sheep and how a man lost one sheep and went after that one sheep and carried it home on his shoulders. He used this to explain how we need to be like that in search for the lost and going after the ones who have strayed.  

 

 

 

One of my favorite chapters discussed the three characteristics of an effective prayer life. He looked at Elijah and how he prayed and believed for rain to end the drought. One of the ways is praying with determination and seeing with eyes of a faith before we see anything happening. Glen explained how he had to see his church full before it ever was. His church has since grown to five campuses and five different services times. He enlightened how this changed everything for him and how spending time with God changed him. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is ready to bring about a revival and to be reenergized and live out your faith. This book was very beneficial and informative on igniting our faith and getting our fire back. It was very heartbreaking to read about some of the things that are currently happening in America. These included a girl being told to hide her cross necklace at school, a teacher being fire for using the line, “the first shall be last and the last first” and giving a student a Bible, senior citizens told they couldn’t pray before meals, and much more. This book is an important call to readers to take a stand for their beliefs and to become fed up with what is occurring in the world today. 

 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

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https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Fire-Chosen-Change-World/dp/0800799658

Why Am I Not Healed? (When God Promised) by Glen Berteau Book Review

In Why Am I Not Healed, Glen Berteau explored the topic of healing and how we can receive a miracle. Glen has had his own health issues where he needed God help in getting healed. He experienced four sickness that almost cost him his life. He has coronary artery disease and five stents in his arteries. He explored how he had to go through his own testing seasons and how God gave him healing when he had a pulmonary embolism blood clot in his lungs. It was later discovered it was caused from mold found in his office. God instructed and guided him into peaching the word of God while he was still sick. After a few weeks, God healed him and he was able to breath normal again. He opened up about how wants to forgive our sins and how we can receive our healing when we also get our lives right spiritually. He explained that fear and bitterness can cause something wrong in our spirit and unforgiveness and break us down physically. He shared how speaking the word of God and learning them is like taking medication for our overall health. 

In back of the book, he opened up about how a scary death experience. He had a cardiac arrest and died. He included preceptive from his wife and children on what they learned when their father died and how God was able to save his life and become a miracle. They all wrote how they learned he was dying and how they began to pray and seek God during it. It was revealed that only 1% end up recovering from going through a cardiac arrest. He also shared how he didn’t have kidney failure or memory problems afterwards. 

I would recommend his awesome book to anyone who is ready to seek healing and they are pondering how they can believe God’s word and find their miracle. I liked how he shared how we need to run our race and how he opened up about how God promised him that he would become a minister and thousands would be saved. He shared how God didn’t tell him at the time about how he would have multiple near death experiences, his daughter would have rheumatoid arthritis and be handicap at 16, and his sister would die from ovarian cancer at 33. He revealed that if God did tell us what we would experience on our journey many of us may say never mind, we don’t want it. I really enjoyed how he included a special section of the book on scriptures and what to declare over our lives about healing. I also liked how he explored 17 hindrances to our healings and why people don’t get healed. I loved how in depth he went in looking at the reasons our healing may be held back. I liked how he covered how he received his healing and what he learned from God during all of the experiences. 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.” 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Why Am I Not Healed, check it out on Amazon.com:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Am-Not-Healed-Promised/dp/080079964X