Break Free!: A Proven Strategy for Discovering and Recognizing Truth

By Victor Costa

If what you are believing is not the truth, wouldn't you want to know?

From our early years we are taught what to believe. But often, the actual reasons for believing are left out, and the result is tragic. The what-to can be not-true and misleading, and we miss the maximized life. The Bible states

• Language: English
• Publisher: Victor Costa
• Release date: Sep 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781622454167

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BREAK

FREE!

A PROVEN STRATEGY

FOR DISCOVERING

AND RECOGNIZING TRUTH

Victor T. Costa

I dedicate this book to my awesome family. I love them with all my heart:

Charlotte Ann

Stacie Elizabeth

Krista Elizabeth

Robert Christian

Jeremiah Eli

Isabella Christine

Gabriella Elizabeth

Lindsey Abigail

Samuel Paul

Melissa Brooke

Richard Lee

Michael Lee

Eli Carter

Sierra Faith

Vicki Ann

Roy Henry

Jessica Ann

Jacob Roy

Steven Paul

Kaili

Michael Nash

Joshua Lee

Amanda Mae

Rebecca Ann

Nathan Victor

Zachary James

Emma Charlotte

CONTENTS

The Strategy for Discovering and Recognizing the Truth

If What You Believe about God Is Not True, Would You Want to Know It?

You May Be Sincere yet Still Be Wrong!

Stalk the Truth; It Is Unbelievably High-Yield

The Power Source! The Foundation of the Truth!

Conversing with the Creator

Spirit versus Flesh

How about Church?

What Does the Bible Teach?

Breaking Free and How

God in Our Work

Followers of Jesus or Church Members?

Our Work Is Given to Us by God

The Struggle to Hear Clearly from God

Serious Seeking of God Brings Results

God’s Schedule is Different Than Man’s

BREAK FREE!

Before we proceed to my story, let’s take a look at the potential within every human to discover or to recognize truth.

In his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey explains empathy listening. He states that empathetic listening requires deep focus on what is being spoken. He further states that the listener is alert and sensitive to the speaker. The listener is to do their best to feel what the speaker is saying. In modern vernacular, the listener really gets into it. Across from his wife or other speakers in a restaurant, a good empathetic listener focuses on the speaker, and his eyes do not glance at who is walking by or at anything else. A good empathetic listener transfers focus from self to the speaker. Immediately, as we raise the bar and begin to practice this level of listening, we will be utterly amazed at the excitement, life and vitality that will come from our interpersonal relationships. And this includes the whole gamut from casual acquaintances to intimate friends.

We can shift gears a bit here and apply the Stephen Covey insights to reading as well as to listening.

The Strategy for Discovering and Recognizing the Truth

What in the world did Jesus Christ mean when He said Blessed are the poor in spirit (Matthew 5:3)?

We will get the answer to this question by considering other Scriptures:

Therefore, I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ (Matthew 13:13-15)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

The spirit of a