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    Approved Unto God
    Approved Unto God
    Approved Unto God
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    Approved Unto God

    By Jay Overbay

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    Our lives are valuable - valuable to us, valuable to others; and valuable to God. We tend, however, to focus on the first two to the neglect of the value that God places upon our life. One of the ways that we can establish our heart with grace (Hebrews 13:9) is to understand what God desires to see present in our lives. God has not attempted to hide them from us but He has provided them clearly and plainly so that we might know them.

    The only way we can understand God’s desire is to get into His Precious Book - the Bible. Most people today, however, have not developed the ability to study thus limiting their ability to understand and to apply the principles that are presented within the pages of Scripture.

    This study seeks to present a guide on how to study the Word of God so that we may receive God’s approval rating on our life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJay Overbay
    Release dateApr 16, 2014
    ISBN9781304604286
    Approved Unto God
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    Jay Overbay

    I am currently the pastor of the Joy Baptist Church located in Glade Spring, VA. I am married to a wonderful wife and have been blessed by God with two beautiful children. Our hearts desire to make a difference by being a help and a blessing to as many as possible.

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      Approved Unto God - Jay Overbay

      Approved Unto God

      Jay Overbay

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Jay Overbay

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The fact that materials produced by other publishers may be referred to in this ebook does not constitute an endorsement of the content or theological position of materials produced by such publishers.

      The author has put forth every effort to give credit where credit is due to thoughts and quotes not original with the author. It is not my intent to claim originality with any quote or thought that I was unable to tie to an original source.

      All Scripture is quoted from the Authorized King James Version. Special emphasis in verses is added.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Apelles & Christ

      Study To shew

      Shew Thyself Approved Unto God

      A Workman That Needeth Not To Be Ashamed

      Rightly Dividing The Word Of Truth

      Concluding Remarks

      Established With Grace

      About the Author

      Preface

      Today could be labelled as a time that is full of regulations. It seems that everything must pass some strenuous process of ratings and codes in order to receive an approval of some government hired official so that that product may then be put into circulation for our benefit and use. We have agencies today that approve what food we can eat, what medications we can take, what automobiles we can drive, and what houses we can live in. This list could continue on and on and seem to be unending. All this is done out of a mind-set of providing a safe environment in which you and I can live.

      We accept these approval giving agencies as being proper and right, or maybe just necessary. Either way, I wonder what our response would be if we were told that God places an approval rating on our lives? Would that change the way you live your life? Would you begin to take every word, thought, and action into consideration for fear that God would not give you His approval of satisfaction? Would you seek to find some process or plan that you could follow daily knowing that God would see

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