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New Christian Book: Seeking God’s Heart by Frederick K. Slicker
How Can I Know God’s Will for My Life? How can I feel God’s presence in all I do? How can I know God personally and intimately?
For more than 2,500 years, the Psalms have been a major source of inspiration and meditation for worshippers of God, the Almighty. The Psalms reflect man’s ancient quest to know the characteristics of God, to understand the ways of God and to seek the heart of God. The Psalms inspire us, transform us and help us come face-to-face with God. Through the Psalms, we have the opportunity to feel His presence, to sense His pleasure and to offer Him our praises and prayers. The Psalms help us to know God in a more personal and intimate way.
Seeking God’s Heart will help you begin to answer these questions in your own life. Seeking God’s Heart is a daily devotional using the Psalms as the Biblical foundation for reflection, mediation, and prayer. Daily devotionals are an important act of discipline in experiencing the presence of God each day, hour, and moment of our lives. Seeking God’s Heart is intended to be a guide for your personal journey toward a deeper and more intimate relationship with God.
From the Preface:
“David, King of Israel, was a man after the heart of God. He spent his life yearning to know God in a personal and intimate way. David is believed to be the sole author of Psalms 1-41 and the co-author of Psalms 42 through 72, 86, and 101 through 150. The Psalms were written over a period of more than 1,000 years and completed more than 400 years before the birth of Jesus, yet the beauty, splendor, power, and majesty of the Psalms continue to bless and inspire us in a modern world. Even today, the Psalms are quoted more often than any other book in the Bible, and the Psalms are the most widely read and thoroughly studied portion of the Bible.
The Psalms run the gamut of human emotions: fear and anger, anguish and despair, hopelessness and disillusionment, joy and peace, love and grace, hope and thanksgiving. Each verse of the Psalms expresses man’s search to know the characteristics, the ways, the perfect will, and the very heart of God. It is through the praise and the prayers of the Psalms, the moments of meditation expressed by the Psalms, the cries of anguish, the disbelief and desperation of God’s people found in the Psalms that we find common ground today with man’s ancient quest for God Himself. It is the Psalms that teach us that humility is to be honored above pride and self-satisfaction, that personal surrender is the beginning of really knowing God and that our lack of understanding and our limitations and disabilities are God’s gifts, so that we might celebrate what we have, not what we lack.
I have written the following devotional, not as a scholar or as a theologian would write, for I am no scholar or theologian, and not as a pastor or priest would write, because I am neither pastor nor priest. Rather, like millions of other men, I am simply a man in search of the heart of God. In writing these materials, I have not cross-referenced any passages, and I have not researched a concordance. Instead, I have simply read the Psalms and reacted to the majesty of the words.
The purpose of this devotional is to help you seek the center of God’s will for your life. It is my hope that these mediations will open you up to a whole new dimension of worship and prayer. May God bless you as you take a daily devotional journey through the Psalms and apply them to your life.
- Frederick K. Slicker
About the Author:
Frederick K. Slicker is a business lawyer residing in
Fred is the author of two other inspirational books: Angels All Around, an autobiography of his life in the practice of law; and A Treasury of Truth and Wisdom, a collection of ideas intended as a guide to living a life of success and significance.
Fred is a co-founder of First Men, the men’s ministry at
