Yourself

By Tommy L. Peck Jr.

About the Author, Tommy L. Peck Jr., talks about being train and raised in the local church, like many other people. We sometimes thought we were doing things according to the Word of God. But we were doing things to please and satisfy words of man and not the words of the living God. Are we performing for the local church for glory and honor? Or are we living for the new, authentic, and true church which is Christ Jesus? Knowing, he seeker for the true worshipper, to have a personal relationship and daily fellowship with him, for YOURSELF. In his first book, he details the 7 steps to better Yourself with God and not man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: May 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781977267962

Tommy L. Peck Jr.

Tommy L. Peck Jr. Lives in Richmond, Virginia, with wife and daughter. Teaches weekly Sunday School Service's/Superintendent at Refuge Church.

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Yourself

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Written by Tommy L. Peck Jr.

This book is written and dedicated to my father, the late Tommy L. Peck Sr., a man of God who served and trusted the True and Living God, Jesus Christ. My father not only read the Holy Bible, but he lived life, guided and directed by the Holy Spirit. What he inspired in me, to do the best I can to serve and please the LORD first above all my family, money and the local church. I watch my father go to work everyday and sometimes on Saturday to make sure his Wife, Janice Peck and 12 children have food and shelter. He also was the priest in the family, not only did we attend the local church, but we also had church and bible study at home. I Thank the Lord, for him, he saw something in me that I did not see, because growing up, I enjoyed reading and writing. He would ask me Bubble when you were going to write that first book. Dad, you get the first copy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

1 Where Art Thou?

2 Examine Yourself

3 Working on Yourself

4 Where is your Faith?

5 Save Yourself

6 Building Yourself

7 The Best of Yourself

Acknowledgement

I would like to Thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me the Holy Spirit to take me out of my comfort zone to accomplish what I thought to be impossible. Teaching me that I am only the true and living church, that is always building, adding and increasing the Kingdom of God. You taught me to be Yourself, to have daily relationships and fellowship to become the person I am today. You have given me thy word, that enables me to examine myself to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling.

Want to Thank my Mother, Janice C. Peck, for being a Prayer Warrior and praying for me through some difficult situations. All my sisters and brothers, twelve strong and their children, stand and support me constantly. I always say. LOVE ALL.

Elder Martin Johnson spiritual advisor/mentor.

Deacon Raymond Cottman, Refuge Church, mentor/teacher.

Steven W. Rodgers/The Edit Authority, for proofreading and editing my Project.

1

Where Art Thou?

Sometimes when we call someone on the phone, we may ask them, where are you or what you are doing? They may reply that they’re at work, at the mall, cooking dinner or even writing a book. In the first book of the Bible, Genesis 1, we read about when God formed Adam in his image and likeness . God did not create us like the animals on the earth, nor the creatures in the waters. He created us to be human beings with minds (after his likeness), bodies (after his image) and soul (the breath of God). God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a paradise of peace and happiness with him. In the garden, he gave them instructions and choices, what to eat and what not to eat. For the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in that day thou eat from it, thou shalt surely die. God gave man and women a free will to obey the true and living God in Heaven or the false and dead gods on Earth. Deuteronomy 30:15 I say, have set before you today life and good, death and evil. When Adam and Eve realized that the fruit was pleasant to the eyes and they desired to be wise as gods, when they had eaten of the forbidden fruit, their eyes were opened, realized they were naked, ran and hid from God’s Presence.

Adam and Eve had daily fellowship with Christ, which included talking and walking with him in the cool of the day. So they hid themselves among the trees, because of the shame and the embarrassment. knowing they had disobeyed God. The same goes with an individual doing something wrong or who commits a crime, they realize their mistakes, runs and hides. That is the same when Moses killed the Egyptian soldier and when Cain killed his brother, Abel. So, when God was looking for Adam in his usual place, he was not there. Adam and Eve had moved away; from God’s protection, moved from God’s presence and moved from the destiny he had chosen for them. Genesis 3:9 says, And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? He replied, I am hiding from your presence because I am naked? God asked Adam, How did you know you were naked? Did you not follow my instructions, not to eat of