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By the hundreds they would come. "Stand and accept your healing. Come forward and tell us what God has done," she would cry out. Looking at children, adults and ministers of all denominations with eyes full of compassion, she would say, "You’re hungry for God." As she touched them they would fall under His powers.

God is a specialist when it comes to the impossible. Captain LeVrier was healed of cancer. Marguerite Bergeron’s crippling, painful arthritis vanished. Donnie Greenway walked out of his wheelchair. Truly, nothing is impossible with God.

If there is anything that characterizes God's people in America today, it is the loss of the fear of God, states Henry Blackaby. When you do not fear God, he contends, you will not fear sin. The troubling result of this issue is that many Christians fail to recognize that they have sinned against God. The lack of holiness within the Church has reached epidemic levels. True revival can only come, notes Blackaby, when the people of God return to a healthy, holy fear of Him.

God, in His holiness, is grieved by our lack of it. In this worthy book, Blackaby urges believers to look inward, to see sin from God's perspective, and to live to the standard that He has set in Scripture. He writes, The salvation of the nation has little to do with Washington or Hollywood--it has to do with the people of God! As referenced in 2 Chronicles 7: 14, Blackaby notes that the redemption of America lies in the repentance of the people of God. He challenges readers by adding, If America depended on your prayer life, would there be revival? Revival waits on the holiness of His people; this book provides the path that will lead us back.

Some of these concerns are the result of unforeseen developments about the Eucharist resulting from other factors, for example the decline in numbers of clergy leading in some places to Sunday celebrations without the Mass. Other concerns arise from a lack of proper catechesis about the Mass, e.g., doctrine of the real presence and eucharistic sacrifice, and a keen desire to understand why and how the Eucharist is at the center of Catholic life. In addition to being expressly theological this book is also expressly pastoral in that it is a reflection on the lived life of the church as it enacts the Eucharist.

Audience: --educated Catholics who seek a deeper appreciation of what the Eucharist is and who want to appropriate that understanding in the way they live their lives --pastoral ministers, both those present and those in training, and the communities of faith whom they serve.