Destination Success: A Teen's Guide To A Closer Walk With God

By Gwendolyne Walter

• You are encouraged to read this book to discover...
• Methodologies to make wise decisions
• Impactful real life case scenarios
• Strategies that have real life applications
• Tips to improve your study habits
• Tips on how to maximize your academic strengths
• Challenges that will increase your self-awar

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aspire Publishing Hub, LLC
• Release date: Apr 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9781962611800

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Destination Success

Copyright © 2024 by Gwendolyne Walter

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 author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ISBN

978-1-962611-79-4 (Paperback)

978-1-962611-80-0 (eBook)

978-1-962611-78-7 (Hardcover)

Dedicated to…

•All of the wonderful teens that God has placed in my life throughout the years:

My Five Sisters

My Nieces & Nephews

My Foster Children

My Extended Family

My Students

•The Memory of My Parents, Earnest James Walter and Lois Wyllene Walter-Brown. They were two of the greatest teachers I’ve ever known.

Table of Contents

1.A Teen’s Guide to A Closer Walk With God

2.God Calls Us in So Many Different Ways

3.Acknowledging the Call

4.Waiting on God’s Timing

5.Embrace Times of Nothingness/Nurturing–

6.Seed Time& Harvest

7.Go, Go, Go, You Can Do It!

8.The Ups and Downs of Success

9.Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

10.Technology vs. Time With God

11.But I’m All Alone

Acknowledgements

I appreciate all of the wonderful people who supported me through the compilation and publication of this, the revision of my first book, Destination Success – A Teen’s Guide To A Closer Walk With God.

The Frontline Team - These individuals edited my manuscript, challenged my ideologies, evaluated my concerns, invested in this project and spent hours of ‘hands-on’ time over to help bring this book into existence.

Dr. Earnestyne Walter-Sullivan

Dr. Washington Jones

Dr. William Kritsonis

Mr. Major Stewart (Illustrator)

Dr. Kimberly Walter-Perry

Missionary Yolonda Walter-Singleton

Dr. LaRonda Walter

Ms. Angela Nichole Walter

The Foundational Support Team – I thank my immediate family, my church family and my friends. These individuals prayed for me, prayed for the manuscript’s completion and encouraged me every step of the way. Indeed, they cheered me on to the finish line!

For the skills, gifts and talents of my support teams, may God be glorified!

Forward

It is particularly gratifying to be asked by Gwendolyne Walter to write the foreword for her first book,"Destination Success" (A Teen’s Guide to a Closer Walk with God) to encourage young Christians in their walk with our God.

Throughout this book Gwen will give you helpful ideas and winning strategies on how to be successful in the pursuit of your divine destiny. She brilliantly uses Paul's parallels of running combined with her personal testimonies, and family values as winning strategies in the race of life.

I have known Gwen and her family for over four decades. The late Reverend Earnest James Walter and the late Missionary Lois Walter Brown, the Founding Pastor and First Lady of the Park Hill Church of God in Christ in Houston, Texas, modeled the finest in servant-leaders and gave their entire lives to serving Christ and His Kingdom. Gwendolyne is a student of the Bible in her own right, her interest in the study of it having been nurtured during her lifetime by her father and stimulated by her mother.

At the early age of 12, Gwen, the second of six daughters, accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior. She has served Christ and His church as a pianist, choir director, minister of music, and she is a licensed missionary. In the Texas South Central Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Texas, she has served as State Sunday School Field Representative, State Youth Department Chairlady, Women's Credential Secretary and Executive Assistant to me, the Bishop.

I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to Missionary Gwendolyne D. Walter for her commitment to integrity and her passion to reach the nations with the uncompromised Word of the Living God. She possesses the rare gift of presenting the deep truth of God's Word with clarity, beauty and insight. In this volume of work, she has built on the key passage of the Bible (Hebrews 12:1) to encourage everyone to run in both the physical and spiritual race of life and be not weary.

Missionary Walter's proclamation of God's word, her pursuit of Christ, and her passion for people ensures that those who hear her speak or who read her words will be blessed.

Bishop Prince E. W. Bryant, Sr.,

General Board Member of the Church of God in Christ

Jurisdictional Prelate- Texas South Central Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

Destination Success

A Teen’s Guide to A Closer Walk With God

INTRODUCTION

The purpose for writing this book is to encourage you, young Christian, in your faith walk with our God. Your Christianity and purpose for living sometimes will be challenged. This book will give you helpful ideas and winning strategies of how to be successful in the pursuit of your destiny. I will share several scriptures in each chapter. However, the biblical theme scripture for this book is Hebrews 12: 1 which says,

Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight,

and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…

In this scripture, the Apostle Paul parallels our lives to running a race and being a track star; in a stadium of witnesses cheering us on. This scripture also encourages us to throw aside those things that will stop our progress and run our race