Stronghold of God: Finding Gods Place of Immunity from Attacks of the Enemy

by Francis Frangipane

Book Overview

As the magnitude of evil escalates in the world today, Christians are looking for a place of immunity and protection, a spiritual Goshen. In The Stronghold of God pastor and best-selling author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884195473
• ISBN13: 9780884195474
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Charisma House
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

I loved the author's introduction and I quote, "Has God provided for us a Christian equivalent to the ark He provided Noah?" Ah! Now that caught my attention, could it be so, I wanted to know and I wanted to know where this stronghold of protection was. I was interested! Francis Frangipane takes you out of pretense into reality at the onset of this work; explaining our walk to Horeb, where we are allowed to be real with God and our feelings about what is happening to us. We breath a sigh of relief knowing we can release our frustrations and fears and we breath in a breath of hope as the author assures us that God has a place of safety from all we are experiencing. The author takes you on a journey, using men of old from the Bible as examples to bring you out of the many negative emotions that are trying to cripple you and leads you to a knowledge of knowing how to run under the shelter of God's stronghold of protection during trials and tribulations that life brings upon us all. I would do this book an injustice to try and review the countless helps Mr. Frangipane gives the reader to obtain this desired result, but believe me hedefinitely gives you all the information you need to run into God's Stronghold. If you are a Christian that is feeling overwhelmed by the world that we are living in; if you are seeking the promises of a God who loves you,and the protection His Word speaks of, then this book is for you. We all need a safe harbor, and for those that are His, there is no safer place than the Stronghold of God. This book will show you the way. It is a journey you will want to take.

Proving God's truths in the testing bed of tough times

Any review of this book that starts from the premise that Francis Frangipane glosses over how hard life can be has missed the point of the book. Francis' view is that when we get into an intimate relationship with God that everything else springs from there. So if you are in a hard place in life, however tough, the Word of God and - more than that - God himself are both still true. God does not choose sin, people do that - even if it means that we are sometimes on the receiving end of some very tough stuff from other people - and have committed serious sins ourselves. We are not robots, God gives us free choice. We can, as Francis points out in the book, always do as we see in Revelation Chapter 12, go into the presence of God. Even when we've failed. There is the place that we find healing and not just the reality of what needs healing, but the truth - because truth and reality are not the same. The reality is that God created each one of us to be able to have a relationship with Him and not as sinful people. But we can come to Him even when we have failed in major ways. We don't have to earn it or prove we've changed in any way. The Prodigal Son parable and the saving of the thief on the cross demonstrate that we need not live having to prove we're different before God will step in - if we invite Him and do so when we have reached the very end of ourselves and stop trying to measure up. When we submit to Him, he changes us bit by bit so that we are healed and permanently changed. And in the book, Francis does reveal he had a very tough time in his marriage when it seemed they could not find compatibility between themselves, but they looked to God who changed them. If that isn't a hard place to come through and find the truths in this book, it is hard to see just how hard it needs to get before Francis shows he has lived and learned these truths and proven God to be faithful even when life is really tough.

Excellent read for new or "mature" Christians.

This is an excellent book for the new or "mature" Christian. It covers many topics about which everyone needs to be reminded or educated -- the power of praying in His name, the power of the spoken word, and why we should never give up (among other subjects). I would recommend this book to everyone. The added appeal to this book is that it can be read in "bites", as chapters are 5 - 10 pages, and the subject matter of the chapter can stand alone. A great book for everyone!