Further Still: The Necessary Journey

By Rev. A. W. Norman

The title Further Still was birthed out of a bible study class. The lesson was teaching on having a perfect heart toward God. The lesson went on about Christ being in the garden of Gethsemane. Christ had asked three of his disciples to accompany him so they could watch and pray with him. In the book of Matthew 26 starting at verse 36 (the b portion) it says, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. Now if you go down to the beginning of verse 39 it says, And he (Jesus) went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying At this point . the two-word expression began to grow into my spirit and that two-word expression is the title of this book FURTHER STILL. Further Still was once a seed of thought and now has become a book to help believers, Saints, Christians, and Children of God (they all mean the same thing). How can someone be helped by reading this book? Further Still is a book about spiritual movement. This book discusses several areas of interest in the believers life where he still must go a little further. We must continue to go further still into the presence of the living God and away from sin. Now in the presence of God (this is where we are trying to get to) there are some spiritual things you will find. They are spiritual yet they have physical and tangible benefits. We will find an assurance of peace, protection, provision and most of all LOVE to such a degree that we really cant even understand it to put it into words. We just accept it!! But if we fail to make the choice to make this journey to the Father and continue to stay in our sinful state, we are in danger of making Hell our permanent home. Always remember that God is still faithful to help us if we want the help. He has provided a way of escape and his name is JESUS the CHRIST!! Youll see as you continue in this book why this journey is necessary. Move toward Jesus and you will begin to see a positive change in your life. You begin to build inside of you a correct and accurate image of who you really are. The devil wants you to see an image of lack, limitation, second class-ness, and substandard living. But God, on the other hand, wants his children to have success, prosperity, happiness, hope, love and a whole lot more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462864812

Rev. A. W. Norman

Anthony Norman is the 6th of 7 children born to the late Deacon Ulysses Norman Sr. and Sis. Louise Norman. Rev. Norman is a family man. He is married to his lovely wife Minister Wanda Norman. Their children are Waiymai, Victoria, Vincent. They also have 6 grandchildren, one of which has already gone on to be with the Lord. Rev. Norman is a very exciting minister and teacher of God’s word. He is very passionate about God’s word because he believes that without it…FAILURE is definite, but with it, success is soon to be forthcoming. One of his favorite scripture is Matthew 6:33 which says, Seek you first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. The Spirit of God blessed him with Kingdom Seekers Ministries based on Matthew 6:33. Rev. Norman was called into the ministry in Dec. 1996 and was ordained in 2001 under the leadership and spiritual guidance of James C. Ward of Pastor of Antioch Lithonia Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. Norman graduated from Faith Bible Institute in 2008 with a focus on biblical studies. Rev. Norman believes his gift is to teach God’s word with clarity and understanding so that the ones who hear will listen and obey what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Anthony Norman’s teaching style is not like most. He gives you the truth of God’s word with his own style of humor and quick wit to help the listener grasp biblical principles. In addition to his gifted teaching style he involves the listeners to participate to help to get even a better understanding of God’s word. Rev. Norman’s prayer is that this book be a blessing to each and every reader.

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Copyright © 2011 by Rev. A. W. Norman.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Present Location (Spiritually Speaking)

Chapter 2 Forgetting Those Things Which Are Behind

Chapter 3 Going From Faith To Faith

Chapter 4 A Life of Prayer

Chapter 5 One Step at a Time

Chapter 6 Have I Grown Any?

Chapter 7 Give What Has Been Given

Chapter 8 Knock, Knock, Knock

Chapter 9 Some of My Favorite Scriptures

Reference List

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank all the people that have helped me to get to this point in my life. I appreciate each and every one of you. In your own way you have been very special and inspirational to me. First, I would like to thank my Heavenly Father God Almighty. Without Him life would be non-existent. I thank God for inspiring me to write Further Still. Next, I would like to thank my parents, my father the late Deacon Ulysses Norman Sr. and my dear mother Sis. Louise Norman. They both were very instrumental in shaping my early years of my life. They raised 7 children. To my dad, I love and miss you very much. To my mother, I love you. You are the best mom in the world!! Next, this person has been a support from the very beginning of this project. That wonderful person is my wife Min. Wanda Norman. We love each other and we help to encourage each other. It’s a blessing having two ministers in the house. Wanda my dear, I appreciate everything, not only with the support and encouragement with the completion of this book, but just being my wife. I love you.

And special thanks to Min. Susan Jones. This is one of my sisters in Christ. Thank you Min. Susan for allowing God to use you for his glory. Thank you for being the good minister that you are. Your obedience helped to birth this book. Thank you for your encouragement and excitement!

Honorable Mentions

*Special thanks go out to

My Antioch-Lithonia Church family – Lithonia GA

The New Hope Baptist Church bible class – Conyers GA

Bethel Bara Baptist Church family – Covington, GA

Introduction

Do you remember traveling with your parents when you were a child? Do you also remember asking that famous question that all children ask? ARE WE THERE YET? HOW MUCH FARTHER IS IT? You were so excited as a child because you knew the place you were going would be a lot of fun once you got there. Life has placed us in a similar situation. It has put us on a journey, but to where? Well that depends on where you want to go. Do you want to go to Heaven and get back to God or do you want to go to Hell? The choice is yours and yours alone. We don’t want you to go to Hell; in fact, we would love for you to be among the ones who have accepted Christ Jesus. For Christ Jesus is the one who makes you worthy enough to come before God in the first place.

The title Further Still was birthed out of a bible study class. The lesson was teaching on having a perfect heart toward God. The lesson went on about Christ being in the garden of Gethsemane. Christ had asked three of his disciples to accompany him so they could watch and pray with him. In the book of Matthew 26 starting at verse 36 (the b portion) it says, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. Now if you go down to the beginning of verse 39 it says, "And he (Jesus) went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying… At this point… . the two-word expression began to grow into my spirit… and that two-word expression is the title of this book… FURTHER STILL.

Further Still was once a seed of thought and now has become a book to help believers, Saints, Christians, and Children of God (they all mean the same thing). How can someone be helped by reading this book? Further Still is a book about spiritual movement. This book discusses several areas of interest in the believer’s life where he still must go a little further.