My latest writing project, the Prosperity to Providence eBook, is quite a wonder as I reflect on it. In so many ways it is more than just information about the two most widely accepted doctrines in Christianity. It is more of a declaration of where I stand with Jesus after over 20 years of intensely studying scripture and applying it to my life in practical, tactical, and supernatural ways. It is how I have come to make sense out of pain, trauma, and grief. It is how I have come to understand grace and a faith that actually gets results. It is how I’ve come to understand the universe, how it works, and God’s intention with it.

It is how I understand LIFE, my purpose, your purpose, and our future.

After spending much of my life in ministry, I have questioned God’s existence and His providence more than a few times. Knowing God came easy to me as a daughter of lay ministers. Believing God came easy too.

But trusting He wouldn’t hurt me… that was different.

One thing every victim of trauma or abuse knows is this: you cannot trust someone you think will hurt you. And the only way to give God a free pass on this is to accept a doctrine that makes God out to be a vengeful, tyrannical, God.

Over and over again in scripture, when describing Himself, God emphasized this: “I am Holy.”

Holy means “uncommon”. Why would God see fit to constantly remind those who needed His divine intervention that He was holy? Most translators and theologians agree it’s because He won’t do anything on our behalf unless we puff Him up with reminders of how awesome He is. But the truth is, He was trying to help them understand that as an uncommon God, He wasn’t like any other gods they were familiar with. From Greek gods to Baal and Gilgamesh, His people were bombarded with stories of fearful, vengeful demigods who would smite you if you messed up.

But He wasn’t like that. He didn’t desire blood sacrifices, penance, and ugly crying at the alter. He desired relationship. And in the context of relationship, as we use our freewill to believe the truth about Him, He is at the ready to provide supernaturally what we could never provide for ourselves.

I spent years under the weight of “angry God theology”. I was told God wanted to do incredible things with my life, but I had to go through my period of testing first. If I skipped the testing, I would not be worthy of, or capable of standing up to, the position God had for me.

This is the most tragic message you could ever communicate to a future pastor. Because whatever happens after you say that is God’s fault.

God does not badger us through endless, merciless testing! The trials we go through while on our way to building our dream has more to do with us letting go of all the limiting beliefs and mindsets of lack that keep us from reaching our destination. It’s not God doing the testing. It’s us letting go of seriously bad programming.

And the problem with blaming the trials and testing on God is that if a person faces trials that literally leave them shattered in broken-heartedness, they now have to reconcile their faithful service to a tyrannical God. Very few can survive this. This is why the church has countless burned out and brokenhearted ministers in its wake.

This book was written to restore any breach of trust or sense of betrayal between the brokenhearted and the Creator of the Universe. It was written to awaken you to the miraculous probabilities that exist this side of Heaven. It was written to restore a proper view of a God who is ravished by you.

“Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.” Song of Solomon 4:9

The word ravished in Hebrew is לבבתני or livabethini. Livabethini is a picture of a tree that has lost its tree bark.

With just one look at you, His heart is like a tree that has been stripped of its bark. God literally allowed Himself to be TAKEN by you, ravished by you. He is thoroughly brokenhearted apart from a relationship with you, His heart ripped open and laid bare.

Only abusers seek their own glory by causing you pain.

God allowed His own heart to be stripped bare when He created you. No wonder your freedom from pain was worth trading His life for. I’m a mama. I totally get where He was coming from. With one look at my daughters I am ravished by their beauty—both internal and external. And I would quickly and without question give my life for theirs.

How much more when God looks at you?

Download your copy of Prosperity to Providence here: https://www.christynarsi.com/latest-ebook

You are so, so loved.
Christy