The Growing Faith: Understanding thyself, #1

By Dr chalela chanda

Understanding thyself is a series of books inspired by God dealing with me and those around me in my quest to know more about myself. I got this understanding from my walk with God and my life prior to accepting Christ and also from those close to my heart. These lessons include those learnt from our successes, mistakes and failure to attempt. This book, like all other books under these series, aims at helping oneself, know thyself better, so as to realize one's full potential on earth not according to human perspective or views but in accordance with the Creator.

These series aim at encouraging one to bear fruits that last and glorify God. This book being the first under the series, will concentrate on reconnecting us back to the Creator and solidifying our foundation. It will build a base for the principles in the books to come under these series. The growing faith focuses on growing your faith through understanding the foundation of humanity, prayer and evangelism. By the end of the series, the goal is to raise influential believers in all circles of life and offer an opportunity for some to know Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr Chalela Chanda
• Release date: Dec 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201022150

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FOREWORD

Understanding thyself is a series of books inspired by God dealing with me and those around me in my quest to know more about myself. I got this understanding from my walk with God and my life prior to accepting Christ and also from those close to my heart. These lessons include those learnt from our successes, mistakes and failure to attempt. This book, like all other books under these series, aims at helping oneself, know thyself better, so as to realize one’s full potential on earth not according to human perspective or views but in accordance with the Creator.

These series aim at encouraging one to bear fruits that last and glorify God. This book being the first under the series, will concentrate on reconnecting us back to the Creator and solidifying our foundation. It will build a base for the principles in the books to come under these series. The growing faith focuses on growing your faith through understanding the foundation of humanity, prayer and evangelism. By the end of the series, the goal is to raise influential believers in all circles of life and offer an opportunity for some to know Christ.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My gratitude goes to the Lord God Almighty for the gift of life and salvation and insight in writing this book. Secondly my gratitude goes to my family for their love, care and support and thirdly to the Medical Christian Fellowship for providing a conducive platform for my spiritual growth.

To the A-team, thank you, you guys are the best, your lives challenged me to be a better person. Not forgetting Dr Siame Joseph and Dr Banda Stephen who I tirelessly troubled to go through my script and making of the book cover, thank you and to many others who have not been mentioned by name that played a role in bringing this together. I am eternally grateful to you. God bless you all!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CHAPTER ONE

WHO IS MAN?

How man is destined to function

In the Beginning

Components of man and how they operate (spirit, soul and body)

What happened to us after the fall

Application to life

Emphasis

CHAPTER TWO

PRAYER

How do I begin to hear God's voice?

We are temples of the Holy One

CHAPTER THREE

THE WORD

Can I trust the word of God?

Examples of what the word of God does

How can this word of God come to us?

CHAPTER FOUR

EVANGELISM

How serious is evangelism?

Biblical examples of evangelism

How can I evangelize

Is evangelism simple

Is it that important to evangelize?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Chanda Chalela studied medicine at the Copperbelt University School of Medicine from 2014 to 2020 and attained a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Surgery. He was born in 1994 in Chingola, Copperbelt province, Zambia.  He received and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in 2014 at Winners Chapel-Kitwe branch during his first year and served as a vice treasurer, vice bible study secretary and later bible study secretary during his medical training in the Medical Christian Fellowship (MCF). He has keen interest in seeing the rise of word-filled, influential and Spirit-led Christians and also has special interest in agricultural businesses.

CHAPTER ONE

WHO IS MAN?

Man is a spirit with a soul living in the body.

How man is destined to function

Complex things are puzzling and intimidating when looked at for the very first time. Just imagine if you were given a window of opportunity to sit in the cockpit of an aeroplane and took a good look at the array of the buttons, obviously, you would think it’s will-o'-the-wisp for one to know and understand the function of each button.

Nevertheless, think of pilots, how do they do it? It started making sense when they were admitted into an aviation school and started learning the basics first, then the complex staff followed later. Not long enough, they found themselves knowing and understanding the components of the complex machine. Before they know it, the complex machine is no longer complicated to them. The secret there is getting to know the basic units and building your knowledge from basic to complex. Similarly, doctors are taught cell anatomy, cell physiology and cell injury. All this information is

Reviews for The Growing Faith

[Chibro · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It's a great book for someone who wants to grow in their Faith and I like what he talked about on prayer and evangelism. Am blessed by it to God be the glory in Jesus name.