The Depths of Consecration

By Shauntrece Odum

“The Depths of Consecration” is a Christian devotional book that provides detailed spiritual instructions on how to live consecrated to Jesus every day. The spiritual teacher, Shauntrece Odum will provide helpful counsel on spiritual living and will teach you the necessity of virtuous living and how to cultivate it, how to live peaceable and wise, and how to advance in virtue and prayer. This book is divine and durable; you will come back to the wisdom that God has given to the Author repeatedly as you live out your consecration. This classic and treasure devotional is essential for every devout Christian.

Inside you will...

• Gain a deeper understanding of what it means to live a consecrated life to Jesus every day.
• You will realize the profound peace and joy that comes with giving your will over to Jesus completely.
• Discover how you can improve your spiritual life and prayer life.
• Have access to all the tools, spiritual counsels, wisdom, and Scriptures needed to guide you in living holy, peaceable, wise, and consecrated to Jesus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664264625

Shauntrece Odum

Shauntrece Odum is a faith-filled leader, speaker, prolific writer, spiritual teacher, and counselor. She is also the founder of SPO Outreach, an organization that runs several support services and interventions to help improve the lives of children, adults, families, and the homeless in her region. She is an impactful leader in her community that works timelessly and tirelessly to provide her hometown with hope, healing, and spiritual improvement. Shauntrece also has a spiritual mentorship program that is focused on helping people who are seeking a life of wholeness. She possesses an earnest love for Gods people and Holy Scripture. She devotes her time to studying sacred Scriptures, writing devotions, and engaging in devout meditations. In addition, she teaches spiritual counsels. She also holds proficiency and credentials in nursing and as a compassionate counselor for the mental health needs for humanity. She is currently studying in her major B.A of Psychology at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC, to receive her Doctor of Psychology degree (Ph.D.). Furthermore, Shauntrece sets an example of how true Christians should sacrifice for Jesus. Her message is a call to repentance and a renewal of devotion to Jesus. Her desire is to edify many by her word and example.

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CONTENTS

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Dedication and Acknowledgments

Prophetess Shauntrece P. Odum (Bibliography)

Introduction

Chapter 1   Basic Training for Consecration

Clearing Your Line

Plan Your Day

No Gossip

No Murmuring or Complaining

Separation

Purge Out the Old Leaven

Mortification

Fasting

Chapter 2   Disciplined

Exercises of an Upright Person

Staying in Top Spiritual Condition

Chapter 3   Self-Sacrificing

Total Surrender of Self

Spiritual Death Course

Chapter 4   A Peaceable Spirit

What Makes A Peaceable Spirit

Solitude and Silence

Avoiding Talkativeness

Avoiding Distractions

Chapter 5   Wisdom and Prudence

Wisdom In Operation

Prudence In Action

Avoiding Rash Judgement

Chapter 6   Humility

Being Humble Like Christ

A Watch Over Humility

A Humble Evaluation of Self

Avoiding Vain and Worldly Knowledge

Chapter 7   Necessary Virtues for Prayer

Love

Detachment

Chapter 8   Purity

Pure Heart and Simple Intent

Pure Conscience

DEDICATION AND

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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I am immensely grateful to be a vessel of the Lord and be His messenger to perform the tasks He has given me during these last days. While waiting in the Lord’s presence to seek His guidance to write this book, He informed me when was the right time to begin writing. Through this book, He wanted me to teach His people about the characteristics of God’s holiness and consecration. This volume’s astonishing influence and converting power is the wisdom shared to help bring men and women of every age and nation closer to God. I dedicate this book to the Heavenly Father in all glory, honor, and praise. I thank Him for revealing these precious pure truths and the Holy Spirit for His inspiration, wisdom, and guidance in writing this book. This volume is written for those who truly hunger and thirst after God’s righteousness, purity, and holiness. It is for those who desire to transcend all things which exist in the realms of time and space and leave behind every created reality to come into the fullness of God’s divine holy nature. This book will help readers get free from the infection of vices, sin, and worldliness and put them on a course of consecration.

I humbly express my deep and profound gratitude and acknowledgments to my spiritual mother, the late Dr. Gertrude Stacks.

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She has trained me, charged me, and imparted spiritual gifts into my life to help me further teach this generation about purification, holiness, and consecration. I thank the Lord for my parents, Gladys Odum and Albert Odum, for their encouragement, love, and support. I have immense gratitude for the late Overseer Bailey Dorris. She encouraged me to do all God has instructed me to do. I also extend my gratitude to my writing coach Minister Elaine for her prayers, wisdom, coaching, and encouragement. I would also like to thank my book publishing company, WestBow Press, for publishing this book for the glory of God so that this project could become a reality. Finally, to all precious and beloved brothers and sisters who desire to learn to live holy and consecrated unto the Lord God.

PROPHETESS SHAUNTRECE P.

ODUM (BIBLIOGRAPHY)

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Elder Odum is called and chosen by the Lord to be a Holy Prophet to the church in the land of the living. The Lord commanded Prophetess Odum, just as the Holy Scripture says, "Manifest my Holiness in them in the sight of the nations. (Ezekiel 28:25 AMP). Prophetess Odum encourages all persons to seek to follow Jesus Christ’s example and be conformed in all things to His holy will. She is devoted and consecrated to the service of the Lord.

Prophetess Odum is a spiritual counselor compiling godly and wise spiritual advice to humankind. She also holds proficiency and credentials as a compassionate counselor for the mental health needs of humanity. The Lord has given Prophetess Odum a healing and deliverance ministry just like how Jesus did in this scripture. Many people who were in pain and suffering with every kind of illness were brought to Jesus for their healing epileptics, paralytics, and those tormented by demonic powers were all set free. Everyone who was brought to Jesus was healed!

(Matthew 4:24 TPT). And He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows]. (Psalm 147:3 AMPC).

Prophetess Odum is well respected by her peers as a woman who walks with integrity, kindness, and humility with the fear of the Lord. One of her main intentions is to emulate the life and virtues of the saints from olden times, especially in the love of God and for her neighbors, in simplicity, humility, and devotion. Her love for the scriptures and passion for Jesus Christ has touched many lives. Her gifts cause people to thirst for God and drive them to their knees to have a relationship with Christ. These gifts include discerning spirits, healing, deliverance, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, reconciliation, charity, and counsel.

Prophetess Odum has been serving the Lord faithfully for many years and has been in the ministry for more than eight years. She was brought up in a Christian family. She embraced holiness and lived a holy and consecrated lifestyle throughout her school and college life and still is by the grace of God. In 2008, she experienced dramatic and supernatural encounters with angels and the spiritual world. Prophetess Odum has been faithfully serving the Lord by teaching the Holy Word of God confirmed with signs, wonders, and miracles to her generation. Prophetess Odum has received many testimonies while doing the work of her Lord Jesus. One of the powerful testimonies God graced Prophetess Odum to do was to raise one of her spiritual mentors from the dead to spend more time with her. When her mentor, Overseer Baily Dorris, died in 2019, the nurses had come running inside the hospital room, turning on the lights, calling for code blue while the ventilator monitor went off. The nurses called for the morgue workers to come to retrieve the body. But when God moved the nurses out of the room, He used Prophetess Odum to lay hands on her mentor to return to life and spend one more day with Prophetess Odum. When the nurses came back into the room, they were in shock and amazed by the resurrection power of God. One of the nurses turned back off the room’s lights and closed the door slowly. They were touched by the manifestation of God’s demonstrating miracle-working power. The Word of God says, These signs shall follow them that believe. (Mark 16:17 KJV). And Without faith, it is impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6 KJV).

Prophetess Odum’s teachings challenge all believers to a life of holiness and consecration and to walk in the spirit as yielded vessels for the work of furthering the kingdom of God on earth. Her teachings will also encourage and teach you to walk holy unto the Lord God. She has also been specially called and sent by the Lord God to prepare the Bride of Christ for the