The Battle for Your Heart

A Dream About This Book Years ago I dreamed about a book I would write in the future. In the dream I was looking at the book which fell open to the middle because of inserts located there. The inserts reminded me of free samples offered in women’s magazines for perfumes and other products. The inserts offered in this book were free samples of dress shirts with bright colors such as: pink, lavender, chartreuse, teal, and coral. They were starched and folded and the reader was able to pick any one of them or all if they so desired. I was amazed that something so valuable would be included with the purchase of a book. ---- I then woke up. I asked others for an interpretation, but never felt that any interpretation was correct. God revealed the dream’s interpretation a few months before this book went to print. If you decide to purchase you will be holding the book from that dream in your hands.

A Dream About This Book Years ago I dreamed about a book I would write in the future. In the dream I was looking at the book which fell open to the middle because of inserts located there. The inserts reminded me of free samples offered in women’s magazines for perfumes and other products. The inserts offered in this book were free samples of dress shirts with bright colors such as: pink, lavender, chartreuse, teal, and coral. They were starched and folded and the reader was able to pick any one of them or all if they so desired. I was amazed that something so valuable would be included with the purchase of a book. ---- I then woke up. I asked others for an interpretation, but never felt that any interpretation was correct. God revealed the dream’s interpretation a few months before this book went to print. If you decide to purchase you will be holding the book from that dream in your hands. God’s interpretation: the shirts represent the varied, amazingly beautiful personalities of the people who will read this book. This book will offer them, maybe for the first time, the opportunity to choose to be themselves apart from the influence of deceptions which have pressured them to be someone they are not. The shirts were all brightly colored because every personality is uniquely crafted by God as one-of-a-kind and therefore, boldly stands out. The freedom to take or leave the shirts was left up to the reader with no pressure whatsoever. This represents God’s gracious offer of freedom without any obligation. The shirts could even be taken out later as they were nicely folded and did not interfere with the reading of the book. This represents God’s timing for some who will not be able to embrace their freedom while reading. However, they can come back later to choose their freedom. God has a destiny for your life and He is faithful to lead you into it. I pray this book will give you the courage to pick your own color and stand out as the one-of-a-kind individual that He has called you to be.

Michael grew up in church and accepted Jesus as his savior at the age of seven, but did not find himself growing very much spiritually as he got older. Even after re-dedicating his life to God at the age of twenty-one he still did not feel close to God. He was attending church and doing all of the right things. In fact, he was one of the best doers there, but something was missing. There just had to be more to the Christian life. He started his own service business in 1990 and by 2000 he could do his work and, at the same time, think on something completely different. So, while working he would meditate on bible verses. It was during one of these extended times of thinking on a particular passage of scripture that something began to happen. For years he would think on 1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” He did not see any immediate changes, but can look back now and see that one specific thought began to permeate his mind: God loved him. He found himself, even on very difficult days of demanding physical labor, being assured that no matter what he was going through; God loved him. He now knew he was experiencing the foundational understanding of the mind of Christ. He was receiving the knowledge of God’s love. As this revelation was growing he began to see that other Christians, for the most part, did not have this assurance of God’s love. He found himself saying all the time, “It’s ok, God loves you.” But, he knew he had to do more. Sometime around the summer of 2009 God directed him to attend Charis Bible College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In the spring of 2013 he founded The Truth Wins Ministries, which is dedicated to overcoming the opposing forces that suppress the knowledge of God’s love. This book is the first in a series devoted to that purpose.