THE LENS OF LOVE: A Fresh Perspective on Increasing Intimacy with God, Enhancing Relationships, and Discovering Contentment

by Wei Wei Chang, Mark Geppert (Foreword by)

Overview

Are you living an empty life, discontent, and without a purpose despite hard works? Often it is because your spiritual lenses through which you see are tainted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647465391
Publisher:	Author Academy Elite
Publication date:	11/12/2020
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Wei Wei Chang is the founder of Imagine Life LLC. Through her writing, coaching, and speaking, she helps individuals find fulfillment through an intimate relationship with God.

For many years, Wei Wei struggled to find her voice and purpose. She emigrated from China to the United States as a young student, where she gained a Ph.D. in Economics. After a successful corporate career at a Fortune 500 company, Chang chose to follow a new and different path towards a deeper relationship with God. Over the past ten years, she has helped many people to experience freedom through inner healing.

Wei Wei lives in Arizona with her husband, Steve, and two daughters.

Connect at www.weiweichang.com

Mark Geppert is the founder of South East Asia Prayer Center and is committed to changing lives through prayer. Mark has taught biblical leadership and prayer walking in Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and the United States. Mark has over 35 years of international experience in over 30 countries and has authored five books. Mark is ordained through Elim Fellowship of Rochester, New York, has served on the staff of several churches in the United States, and has established and pastored the English-speaking congregation of the Church of Singapore (Bukit Timah). He is currently teaching, networking, overseeing, and inspiring new and existing projects for sustainability and evangelism."

Table of Contents

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING 1

DEDICATION 8

FOREWORD 12

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 14

A NOTE TO THE READER 15

 

PART 1: VISION IMPAIRMENT 18

 

CHAPTER 1: PATH OF DESTRUCTION 19

Failure Is a Blessing in Disguise 19

CHAPTER 2: LACK OF VISION 21

A More Significant Cause of Unhappiness 21

CHAPTER 3: ORIGINAL LENS 24

20/20 Vision 24

CHAPTER 4: DO YOU FEEL HOPELESS? 29

Finding Jesus, Finding Hope 29

CHAPTER 5: ARE YOU AFRAID? 34

Jesus, the Light, Dispels the Darkness of Fear 34

CHAPTER 6: DO YOU FEEL DISSATISFIED? 40

Seeing Yourself through Tainted Lenses 40

 

PART 2: THE DIAGNOSIS 45

 

CHAPTER 7: VISIT THE OPTOMETRIST 46

From Physical to Spiritual-Metaphor of a Lens 46

CHAPTER 8: TAINTED LENSES-A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE 49

Returning to the Lens of Love 49

CHAPTER 9: TAINTED LENSES-A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 55

# 1: Family History & Generational Patterns 55

# 2: Personal Experience 63

CHAPTER 10: TAINTED LENSES-SOUL PERSPECTIVE 86

Revealing Responses 86

 

PART 3: VISION CORRECTION 117

 

CHAPTER 11: REPENTANCE 118

A Divine Exchange 118

CHAPTER 12: FORGIVENESS 121

The Key to Unlock the Prison Door 121

CHAPTER 13: THE STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 130

Friendship with God 130

CHAPTER 14: GOD'S WORD 134

The Truth Has Set Us Free 134

CHAPTER 15: HEAVEN'S VANTAGE POINT 136

Seeing beyond the Natural 136

CHAPTER 16: DIVINE REVELATIONS 143

Prophecy and Dreams 143

CHAPTER 17: GOD ENCOUNTERS 148

Transformation in the Presence 148

 

PART 4: THROUGH THE LENS OF LOVE 154

 

CHAPTER 18: MIRACLES 155

Surrender and Trust 155

CHAPTER 19: GENERATIONAL MANDATE 159

Possessing the Land 159

CHAPTER 20: SIGNIFICANCE IN CHRIST 162

I Am Who He Says I Am 162

CHAPTER 21: INTIMACY WITH GOD 167

Be Thou My Vision 167

CHAPTER 22: JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND 173

Walk with God 173

 

ENDNOTES 177

TAINTED LENSES ASSESSMENT 183

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 186

 

Editorial Reviews

Wei Wei's transparent journey teaches you how to identify and remove tainted lenses of endless striving for significance to enter into God's rest and success. Her story will lead you to greater clarity of God's unique plan for your life. This book is honest and motivating. It will change your life.

Hal and Cheryl Sacks, Co-founders, BridgeBuilders International Leadership Network, Phoenix, Arizona

Cheryl Sacks, author of Prayer Saturated Church; Prayer Saturated Family; and Prayer Saturated Kids

In her new book, The Lens of Love, Wei Wei reveals some of the most intimate and vulnerable places of her heart and story, where you get to witness how God redeems her whole family line from hatred and fear in such a powerful way!

Pastor Jason Young, Founding Pastor & Urban Missionary, Roundtable Church, Hong Kong

The Lens of Love by Wei Wei Chang reveals areas that could be holding us back from thriving in God's purposes or understanding His love and good plans for us. It provides powerful insights and real-life lessons towards a transformation that Wei Wei has personally experienced in her own life.

Jeff Yuen, Founder, and Senior Pastor, Soakability Church, Singapore, Author of Presence-Driven Donkeys: Bringing Christ to the Streets

I heartily recommend The Lens of Love by Wei Wei Chang. She is a wonderful person who lives and practices the material in this book. She has been inspirational to many, many people in our congregation, and because of the freedom she describes and teaches in this book, many people have been healed and delivered in our church. I don't hesitate to say that as it was for Wei Wei, so it can be for you-life changing!

Thomas Alexander, Senior Pastor, Two Rivers Church, Gilbert, Arizona

The information we have gathered from The Lens of Love has deeply filled us. The application of the Spirit of God's lessons within this book has opened our eyes to transfigure the world around us gloriously.

Rev. Matthew H. Geppert, President of South East Asia Prayer Center, Pittsburgh

In Wei Wei's new book, The Lens of Love, she takes you along on her own journey of leaving behind the lenses of shame and pain that had defined so much of her early life to the point where she began to see who she really is: a daughter who is loved deeply by God. This led her to see others differently as well. Through her life story, she leads us along the path toward freedom and the realization that seeing with new lenses helps heal the brokenness that has long defined our lives and paints a picture of the possibility of seeing a world captured by the love of Jesus. Read The Lens of Love, and you'll begin to live loved and to live love.

Rev. Daniel L. Black, Director of Love Fest Global, Hong Kong

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