In the
Beginning…
Prayer brought healing to
my soul. It can bring healing to yours, too.
In the summer of
2001, one of a series of personal storms hit. I was in a
hard place and had some painful decisions to make…no
back door, no easy way out.
No one seemed to be able to hear what I was saying or
understand what I was going through. I felt alone and
forgotten. I strained to hold on to any sense of personal
significance and purpose. You know…one of those
times.
In days past, I needed scripture prayer for ministering to
others. This time I needed some recorded scripture prayer
to minister to myself:
To sooth my hurting, discouraged soul,
To keep my wild thoughts in check,
To fuel my trust in God’s faithfulness,
To restore my stability and self-confidence.
I said, “Lord, You intend to bring good
out of what the enemy intends for evil. We could work
together, Lord. We could bring good out of my hard place by
writing scripture prayers for this occasion. I really need
them!”
Timely
Training
Months of scripture
research adds richness and power to this prayer
meditation.
At the time, I was involved in scripture
research training provided by Arthur Burk of Plumbline
Ministries .
Everything I learned from Arthur got applied to
No
Storm Too Great! The end result was scores of scriptures
(including Psalm 91, of course) paraphrased using:
• the Theological Wordbook of
the Old Testament
• the New International
Dictionary of New Testament Theology
• study helps and commentaries available from
the Online
Bible.
With the help of these research tools, I was able to
bring to my paraphrased scriptures:
• the expanded meaning you find in the
Amplified
Bible
• the contextual richness you find in
The
Message
…..while maintaining the integrity of The Word.
Now I was certain that the finished product
would be a great resource in the retreat work I do.
Test the
Waters
Let the healing power
in
No Storm Too Great! touch your deep places of
need.
By December 2001, the manuscript was finished and I had a
sinking feeling that perhaps this had just been for my own
healing, not a resource for others.
A young friend came to visit. She is a
therapist who has weathered plenty of storms of her own. In
her honesty, I knew she would tell me if this project had
any significance beyond my own need.
I left her for a while to read alone. When I
returned, she was weeping. I responded, “OK, give it
to me straight! Am I fooling myself in thinking that God is
ministering to anyone here other than to me?”
She dried her tears and said,
“It’s like the Lord took the finest coffee
beans and brewed them into a perfect cup of coffee to be
savored.”
Isn’t it wonderful the people who God
brings into our lives? If it wasn’t for this young
woman, No Storm Too Great! would be turning yellow in my
filing cabinet.
With that encouragement, I sent portions of
the manuscript, No Storm Too
Great!, to
numerous people around the country for review. The glowing
feedback kept me going.
Two different people called to tell me how
the script had spoken directly to their hearts and
circumstances. But, in both cases, they cried so much, it
took a while to be clear on what they were saying. It was
so encouraging!
The Recording
World
Professional production
gives you a quality product.
My next hurdle was to get a good quality
recording. I had purchased some software and a
book…all of it Greek to me!
So I called Joseph Gonzalez, a
musician/composer of some renown, who also does recording.
Could he help me figure out this software? We met.
I took a 30-minute homemade recording of a
couple of sections of the manuscript. Joe listened to the
whole thing while we were traveling from LA to Bakersfield.
As the tape ended, he pulled into a service station for
gas. He had said nothing. He pumped gas, in silence. In
that silence, I began to panic.
A couple of minutes after Joe got back into the car, the
silence broke: “Jeanie, you’ve really got
something here. This needs to be professionally
recorded.” My panic-stricken heart began to beat
again.
There was no way I could manage to pay for
professional recording, so Joe said he would help. He was
busy with professional assignments, including music
for Resurrection
Boulevard. We fit in
bits of recording here and there in Joe’s Simple
Music Productions studio. I learned to edit sound
files…..me!....Grandma Moses. Under the graying
hair, my mind raced with excitement.
One More
Storm
Storms may continue, but
God is a ready shelter. His Word is tested and
true.
About then life changed…again. My
daughter developed an extremely serious case of postpartum
depression…one more storm. It took both my
son-in-law and me to keep the household afloat during those
two years. All energy went into making it from one day to
the next.
I wondered if normalcy would ever return to
my life. No Storm Too
Great! sat in
dry-dock while we struggled with our difficult emotional
climate.
Joe and I worked a bit when we could.
Then…he was moving south…and I was moving
back to the mountains. We scrambled in those last few days
to finish this project. Just after midnight on the last
work session, we held this full-term baby in our hands. I
cried.
Our recording of this project had spanned two
years!
What I thought would be a small collection of
prayers on various themes, turned out to be
No
Storm Too Great!:
• an
83-page manuscript
• 2 hours and 20 minutes of prayer
• a CD professionally recorded with state-of-the-art
equipment and software
• a CD with ambient music background composed by a
wonderful praying professional.
No Storm Too
Great! includes:
• Countless numbers of scriptures were researched and
paraphrased into a tender conversational style of prayer.
• Heart-musings on God’s faithfulness and love
for us.
• Ambient music background and the sounds of nature to
help provide the calming atmosphere that is so helpful for
prayer and for personal peace.
• The tone and style for times of stress or trauma,
times of chaos and change, times of physical, emotional,
and spiritual healing.
The
Product
God’s Word ministers
peace to your spirit and your soul.
Finally the CD’s were reproduced.
Slowly, I got copies out for review. We began working on a
website from which to distribute them. Progress was
painstakingly slow.
But, the feedback from the review copies of
the CD was great. Folks were impressed with:
• The power of God they sensed as they prayed
No Storm Too
Great!
• The rich
depth of content
• Deep peace and strengthened faith as they prayed
• A sense of greater intimacy with God
• Improvement in sleep patterns
• Increased ability to block out negativity
• Improved control of destructive self-talk
The Storm called
Katrina
Let
No Storm Too Great! minister to your every
storm.
Late September, 2005, was target time to
begin marketing No Storm Too
Great!
Then, we watched in prayer as Katrina came
bearing down on the Gulf Coast. We were gripped, as was
everyone, with a sense of anguish for the suffering and the
loss.
I regained my senses enough to remember my anguish over the
World Trade Center…and how I longed to
provide No Storm Too
Great! at that
time to those who were suffering.
I really believe that God held back the
release of this project for the Katrina and Rita aftermath.
In times like this, we need tools such as
No
Storm Too Great!
• to
encourage ourselves in the Lord,
• to strengthen our faith,
• to maintain focus on God bringing good out of what
the enemy intends for evil.
• to stay firmly rooted in a divine reality that does
not shake or fall apart
• to maintain hope in the face of devastation
• to recover from wounds of trauma
• to rebuild and press into living a full life
But No Storm Is Too
Great!
Be strong in the Lord and
the in the power of His might! (Ephesians 6:10 paraphrased)
We maintain the position that no storm is too great to take
down those who know that the Lord is a solid refuge from
the chaos.
• He raises
us up and steadies us on higher ground.
• He clears our spiritual vision to give us sight of
something more, something better.
• And…in the process we are bettered,
…..like silver that has been refined, …..like
gold that is purified
We are strong and valuable.
Peace for Your Personal
Storm
Order No Storm Too
Great! for
your own peace and healing.
Let it help you
strengthen yourself in the Lord.
This 2-hour, 20-minute collection of
prayerful scripture meditations is available
…..to help bring calm to your troubled
waters,
…..to bring you the Lord’s
words of hope in the face of devastation,
…..to be a balm of peace over shattered
nerves,
…..to keep your self-talk aligned
with the life-giving power of God’s Word,
…..to help keep you on the path of an
overcomer.
ORDER
HERE
.