But surely, every writer does write to be read. And, I am no exception. In the long years God spent preparing my heart and mind to write these two books, and the three years it took to actually do so, and now beginning this fourth year of promoting them – always there was the deep desire to make a positive impact.
Particularly during those years of actually writing the books, my fond imagination was that readers, especially lay readers, might be inspired and joy-filled as they experienced a spiritual awakening and/ or fresh enlightenment. I thought of their sense of satisfaction as possibly long-nagging faith questions became answered or gaps in their awareness were filled in.
I imagined that they would be deeply satisfied as they heard that blessed ring which reverberates only from authentic truth. I anticipated that they would be thrilled as that more difficult gossamer nature of the spiritual dimension began to give way to the easier-to-grasp concreteness of a clear, plain-language exposure.
And, I thought about the more empowering level of the divine relationship which readers might come to know through these pages. And, in fact, I relived my own Christ-empowered and sustained liberation – a liberation from my own darkness of mind, and of heart, and of lifestyle.
Much of it came flowing back as I reveled in the prospect of the same for future readers. And, I thought how great it would be when a reader’s nervous hopefulness for God’s final approval actually turned into an absolute confidence that it would be so.
So, these were some of the things I anticipated as I wrote these books. And, they have, in fact, come to pass for many of my readers. But certainly - not for all.
The sad reality is that history’s records indicate that humanity has now widely traveled far into the dark reaches of a Satan-constructed and very deceitful house of religious mirrors. And now, the present generations broadly struggle to make a distinct difference between those grotesque, satanically doctored images of the faith-walk and the truly authentic, God-rendered image.
And so, it remains my great honor, through the two books of The Re-Awakening Series to freshly expose and confront those deceptive satanic distortions. But exposing the misdirections of the Darkness is really just an integral necessity within the larger and more gratifying dimension of my ministry assignment.
By far, my greater honor and deepest joy flow from exposing the beauty and perfect efficacy of God’s authentic truth. And, this is especially true of that redemptive truth which absolutely liberates humanity – not only from the clutches of the Darkness, but also from our own disabling weakness and frailty.
So, my purpose for these two books is not complicated. It is to do my very best to knock down that devil constructed house of mirrors, smashing as many of those soul-killing, life-wasting religious distortions as I possibly can.
But, truth be told, the evidence also indicates that there will also be others who – well, as mentioned, won't be so pleased. Nevertheless, whatever the individual response, this remains the purpose for which I was born. And, I dearly love fulfilling that purpose through these two very unique books.
Devil Whispers: (Fiction 167 pgs.) The First Book
The simple reality is this. Satan is as real as God. And, he is very intelligent in a thoroughly darkened way. And, he has now had eons of time to use that tortured intellect to develop many consummate tactics of deception. And, indeed, he has done so. Furthermore, he has also taught these treacherous tactics of spiritual warfare to that hideous legion of demons which he leads – also very real.
As a result, humanity has now long suffered under constant psychological assaults from this “Legion of Darkness.” And entirely due to this ceaseless subconscious onslaught, humanity has widely experienced a diminished awareness of the sheer goodness of our Creator/ God and of the benevolent truth which He has provided through Christ to rescue us and shield us from evil and harm.
And, the harsh secondary outflows of that diminished awareness have now become all but endless. We are slaughtered by the millions in the wars which Satan’s heartless demons slyly cultivate through their human dupes. And, similarly, we are also regularly convinced to see evil as good and good as evil – thus wrecking our bodies, our relationships with both God and man, the quality of our lives, and the good order of our world.
So, we ever bleed, and wallow in a mire of unending social confusion, and struggle, within and without, with chronic chaos of every sort, . And, all of this while the Darkness constantly continues to convince us to push away our benevolent Creator and Savior, thus causing our souls to perish en masse.
So, it is because of this hard-to-see / hard-to-grasp nature of the demonic underworld that I chose a fiction format over a non-fiction for Devil Whispers. Some things (and certainly this demonic thing) are just better dramatized than verbally described – at least, in an overview presentation.
Every evil work of the Darkness confirms its slippery, slithery, hard-to-expose nature. And the light is just much more easily shined on these invisible demonic pot-stirrers by the greater literary liberties afforded by a fictional approach.
But, in fact, I wish there was a book classification called “non-fiction fiction.” If there were such a class, I would have chosen it to classify this book. It truly is, essentially, and even in most all of its detail, an accurate expose´ of the satanic economy. When finished with Devil Whispers, it is all but guaranteed that Satan’s normally very ethereal “Economy of Darkness” will have a much more concrete feel in the reader’s mind than was previously so.
Spiritual Dynamics: (Non-fiction 161 pgs.) The Second Book
It works like this. Devil Whispers, is essentially a wide-framed, fast-moving historical documentary portraying high-points of the human experience in an all-encompassing way. Which is to say, it shows those events in both the physical and the metaphysical dimensions as they actually do occur - i.e. simultaneously, and sharing a cause-and-effect inter-connection.
Spiritual Dynamics then follows as a clear, accurate, and detailed commentary on this multi-dimensional presentation. But given the import of the subject matter addressed by Spiritual Dynamics, you will probably be surprised by the tone of its approach.
It is not written in a heavy theological brogue. Nor does it read like a doctoral thesis. And, it does not employ an oppressive, “thou shalt” overtone.
Rather, this book is very purposely written in a more everyday language and a fairly light inflection to facilitate a more relaxed flow of its vital and valuable insights. And, regarding those insights, Spiritual Dynamics is truly a fresh step forward as an explanation of God’s thoroughly life-renewing redemptive process. Indeed, this book has a tremendous capacity to broaden the reader’s practical understanding of the full scope what God is really up to in Christ.
Obviously, wrong roads lead to wrong places. Spiritual Dynamics is essentially a very purpose-built literary GPS serving but one simple command input: “Take Me Safely Home.”
The Re-Awakening Series by Larry Burnett
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