Becoming an Approved Workman

By Wesley Sweetser, Jr

Traveling to Europe and skiing in the French Alps may sound fun but it brought me no lasting fulfillment. Falling off a horse as a young child didn't help much either. This is a short story of some struggles in my own life, especially as a teenager and young adult, and how God intervened so that I could become not only a child of God but a workman approved unto God. "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." (Romans 10:17) May you be blessed by what you discover as you read through it. It's my prayer that the words the Lord has allowed me to share give you hope, encouragement and joy.

I have found it a great joy to share my personal story under the influence and leading of the Holy Spirit of God, and count it a privilege to present it to you. "It was for freedom that Christ set us free..." (Galatians 5:1a)

Enjoy and may God richly bless you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wesley Sweetser, Jr
• Release date: Jan 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463274002

Wesley Sweetser, Jr

I have over 40 years experience in the private sector and government developing software and databases and managing projects and teaching. I "retired" in 2018 and continue working in Florida, glorifying God, doing home remodeling, publishing three programming eBooks in the Approved Workman series, along with finding work at a local college. God is good! May God bless you as you serve him.

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Becoming

an

Approved Workman

Traveling with God

by

Wesley D. Sweetser, Jr.

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No part of this book may be reprinted without written permission, except for brief quotations in books and critical reviews.

Scripture is taken from the New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Copyright © 2019 by Wesley D. Sweetser, Jr. All rights reserved.

Published electronically in the United States of America.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Timothy 2:15

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.

Dedication

This work is dedicated to the Lord from Whom I have receive my strength and Who has granted me so great a salvation, and to those people in my life who have blessed me so.

Romans 10:9-10

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Life

3. Death

4. New Life

5. Prayer

6. Sharing

7. Conclusion

About the Author

PREFACE

It's my prayer that the words the Lord has allowed me to share give you hope, encouragement and joy.

Although this is the fourth book in the series, the experiences described provided the foundation that enabled me to write the first three books. I have found it a great joy to weave portions of my life together in this manuscript under the influence and leading of the Holy Spirit of God, and count it a privilege to present it to you.

In Christ's service,

Wesley D. Sweetser, Jr.

January 2019

CHAPTER ONE

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Introduction

Psalm 139:13

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.

God created me, but I didn’t know him. I was an unbeliever until I reached 30 years of age. God protected me, but I didn’t give him credit. For the first 30 years of my life I experienced good times and bad. I lived overseas, visited Paris and London, did well in school, had friends. Others might envy some of my experiences. But I also experienced great sadness, misery, loneliness and at different times contemplated and attempted suicide. Throughout all those years I believed there was a God, but I believed him to be an impersonal God, an entity or a force.

It wasn’t until I came face to face with God’s Son and came to know the Lord Jesus Christ personally that I realized how much God had watched over me at different periods in my life despite my ignoring him and seeking my own selfish desires.

Consider this passage (Colossians 1:16):

"For by Him all things were created, both

in the heavens and on earth, visible and

invisible, whether thrones or dominions

or rulers or authorities – all things have

been created by Him and for Him."

God created everything, he created man in his image, and those who are believers in Jesus Christ are God's workmanship created to do good works. We’re to use our lives to give glory to God as we become more Christlike. We