Turn: Remembering Our Foundations

By Max Lucado

Book Overview

"Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits." - Psalm 103:2 The very breath that sustains you. The prosperity of our land. Both--and everything in between--are gifts from the same... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590524500
• ISBN13: 9781590524503
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Multnomah
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.5" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

An Important and Timely Book

Max Lucado has written a book to challenge Christians to adhere to II Chron. 7:14. It is very simple, but well done. In contrast to what one reviewer wrote, this has nothing to do with being divisive. It is not written for the population at large. It is written to Christians specifically letting them know what God has said that they need to do in their own lives to turn things around in our nation. Mr. Lucado goes through II Chron. 7:14 phrase by phrase. The text of that Scripture is as follows: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." The solution found in this single verse is really quite simple. Christians need to do the following: 1) Acknowledge God, the Creator of the Universe, and his dominion; 2) Pray; 3) Seek His face - Read His word, worship Him, etc.; 4) Confess our sins and ask for forgiveness. The simplicity of the verse is amazing. The book is well done. I highly recommend it to Christians.

Reminding us of who we are.

Incredible book. It reminds us that God comes first and that he put us here. He created this world. God is magic and believing in him is magical. Everything Max said in this book I see in everyday life. A perfect example is the people trying to remove pray from school or trying to remove "under God" from the pledge of alligence. Max Lucado is one of the best writers I've read in a long time.

Turn

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14. Lucado's entire book unpacks this verse and challenges us to consider: God will heal the land when people turn back to him. God is the one who decides all things with respect to a country. God determines national leaders and decides national blessings. And God listens to the prayers of his people - if and when they pray. Even Jesus, rather than acting, turned to prayer and asked God, his heavenly father, to act. In Matthew 14:23 it says, "Jesus went up on a mountainside alone to pray." Jesus did not call us to teach, preach, have committee meetings or do anything without ceasing - except to pray without ceasing. Jesus did not call his house a house of fellowship, music, study, political activities, exposition or anything else - except a house of prayer (Matthew 21:13). The author encourages us to take our nation, family, and friends and present them before God in prayer. Even Peter, one of Jesus' inner circle, could not stand by the Savior but denied Him three times in His hour of need and turned and ran. But He also turned, returned, and confessed and repented - and he was forgiven and restored. What God wants us to do, Lucado asserts, is to stop pointing the finger at others, point the finger at ourselves, get real before God so that God can heal our land. Yet, as Lucado says, we typically pray as casually as we'd order a burger at a drive through. If you get the idea that I think that everyone needs to read Turn: Remembering Our Foundations, - you're right.