The Way He Has Taken Me Deeper

By David Denbow

This book follows the personal path and various significant steps and processes of God's hand at work, transforming, removing, imparting, and guiding David for the years from age thirty to age seventy-one.

This writing is intended to show and prove that God can and will take a life and make it new: from a life of losses and hatred and fear to a life of security, peace, love, hope, and purpose--even divine purpose. It is the way He has taken me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685706210

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The Way He Has Taken Me Deeper

David Denbow

ISBN 978-1-68570-620-3 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68570-621-0 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by David Denbow

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

Christian Faith Publishing

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Meadville, PA 16335

www.christianfaithpublishing.com

All biblical citations were taken from the King James 2000 Version of the Holy Bible unless otherwise indicated.

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

About the Author

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

—1 John 1:1–4 (ESV)

God is taking and has taken His blood-bought people through many things—both trials and joys, hardships and plenty. Through it all He remains the single stable and unchanging thing. All things of earth will perish, but He is eternal and infinite and unchanging. As He unfolds our lives before us and leads us true, we are blessed, delivered, and kept securely in His hand and in Christ's hand. And having come through a trial or hardship, we become witnesses of His faithfulness and of Him being all we need for every need we may have, both temporal and spiritual. And so I write today to share the way He has led me and some highlights along the way.

Speaking of my writing, I make this disclaimer: I am clearly not an English major nor a wordsmith, but I do believe that the intent of this writing will come through. If any are lost to it, that will be because they are lost to the concepts contained herein. And I pray for you.

Believer, I don't pretend to think that God will lead you in exactly the same path that He has taken me. But there will be similarities. And the common thread through yours and my own will be some very unchangeable core truths about God, Who He is, what He is like, and how greatly He desires a deep and intimate relationship with us.

It remains true and stands sure as a truth of God.

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (Romans 8:37, emphasis mine)

Many times along the way it seemed I was nearly destroyed, thinking to quit my course at times, but waiting on God for the final conclusion of each struggle always—I say again, always—ends in deliverance and blessing and ultimately victory and joy in the inner recesses of my spirit and soul and mind. Thus, it is in our lives, and it was with the cross of Christ Who for the joy set before Him endured that horrible suffering. God turned it into blessing and salvation for the many who would come to believe. What satan provoked, God had planned from the foundation of the world. So with our trials and tribulations, we go through the hard, the seemingly impossible, time and again. Know assuredly that the other end of every trial the believer and follower of Christ encounters will be blessing, which far exceeds and cannot be compared with the trial itself (Romans 8:37).

Isaiah says it correctly:

They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

As I write, I am seventy-one years of age and have been convinced and convicted that I cannot leave this life without setting these things down for whatever use God may have for them both now and when I am gone. Such as I have, I must share with you, the reader, or I dishonor God and care not at all for you. Even as I use the keyboard to write, I am keenly aware of the absolute fact that this testimony of mine is really His. He has already written it into the fabric of my life through a very similar course of suffering as our Savior was brought. May God bless this endeavor and your walk with Him be blessed and His name lifted higher.

Chapter 1

Return to your rest, O my soul;

for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

—Psalm 116:7

This writing is generally aimed at believers who have been born again as Jesus described to Nicodemus in John 3 and is further written about in Romans 10:8–10 and several more places in the Word of God.

To truly hear and receive what the Spirit of God would impart and reveal to us, we must be brought to the place where we recognize that God is not a man nor is He like a man, though we are created in His own image. He is the source and supply for all that is creation. The skies, stars, space, heaven itself, earth, and all that is in it are of and by and for Him. And without Him there was nothing made that was made (speaking of Jesus Christ in John 1).

We may receive His Word or reject it. What He will not allow is for us to pick and choose parts and pieces of His Word as truth and discard other parts as not true or not pertinent to our lives today. He is either all God or none of God.

Let's look at the scriptures and see how He expresses the difference between man and Himself in Hebrews and Isaiah.

Speaking of Israel's rebellion and disobedience and unfaithfulness to God, He says:

Why I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. (Hebrews 3:10)

Isaiah 55:7–12 says this:

Let the wicked forsake his way,

And the unrighteous man his thoughts;

Let him return to the Lord,

And He will have mercy on him;

And to our God,

For He will abundantly pardon.

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain comes down,

and the snow from heaven,

And do not return there,

But water the earth,

And make it bring forth and bud,

That it may give seed to the sower

And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

For you shall go out with joy,

And be led out with peace."

If God be God, He is far more than capable of anything we could need or think with the exception of sin. For example, if God is truly God, He has certainly maintained the integrity of the Bible, the Word of God, over the years. There be many who argue over translations and versions and more, but the bottom line is that God is far more than able to maintain the integrity of the Word even in this age and time.

Unless the reader hears and receives God's Word concerning this, they will