The Garden and Other Short Stories

By Neil Marnewick

A compilation of twelve inspiritational short stories. Each story was birthed from a vision or dream from God and captured into words by the author.

"The Garden is a vision of how God has been working in my life, to clean me out and heal me from my past. It has brought tears to many eyes and hence I decided to publish them for everyone to read, to share in my own journey. Embrace is a story about how the Holy Spirit responded to the earnest prayer of a victim to a date rape."

The Garden and Other short Stories are also included into the Identity Christian Journey Levels 1 and 2 from the same author. Each level is a bible study guide for cell groups of 6-8 months.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neil Marnewick
• Release date: Sep 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310127809

Neil Marnewick

I believe that God placed us on the earth to make a difference in other people's lives. My influence, my actions come from within, the real person I am when you are not looking - my Identity. My identity is not what I do for a day job, nor what people think of me. My identity is what is inside of me, that special being that can grow and be revealed in time. It is defined by the way I think, my principles and how I would react in when no one is looking. It is as unique as my fingerprint. I have something to give, not just to take. Hence, I would like to help you to find your own identity. Visit my website to find the link of the bible based study guide elsewhere. Only God can help you discover your true potential and the only way is to walk the journey, to grow and to change. God's business is people, hence I have to apply my faith step by step moving forward helping people. You're one of them. You may be surprised to know that I am not a writer or preacher by trade, but actually an automotive engineer. I thought my style was a bit too clinical for the arts, but fortunately God was not limited by my way of thinking. I had to overcome many challenges for personal growth to build character for what is destined to come next. God always gives bigger and better than you could have imagined. Keep on, do not give up, but be careful to stay on the right path!

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The Garden and Other Short Stories

Published by the author, JCN (Neil) Marnewick at Smashwords.

Copyright JCN (Neil) Marnewick, 2014. No portion of it may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the author.

ISBN 9781310127809

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This ebook is dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, the God who created the Universe!

A special thanks to Katharina Kummer for using her photo for the cover. It was taken at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Lifegiver

The Garden

Send Me

Stand-off

Embrace

No!

In his House

Best Friend

The Masterpiece

Purpose

The Valley

Resurrection

About the Author

Preface

One day the Lord revealed to me how he works to clean out my heart by giving a vision. It was like we were both standing on my heart like little men, but my heart looked like a garden. He dug into the ground and uprooted many things from my past in the process to heal me. I asked Him to help me put it into words and from there The Garden came to life.

Then there were more visions that came and I wrote them down just not to lose them at first. When I started to write the Identity Christian Journey Level 1 guide I realized they fit in between certain topics and herewith they are presented in the same sequence.

The first seven are thus also