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    YES: God's Answer to Our Questions
    YES: God's Answer to Our Questions
    YES: God's Answer to Our Questions
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    YES: God's Answer to Our Questions

    By Kay Mortimer

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    Life fills us with questions. Answers to some of these can change the course of our lives forever.

    Questions like "Does my life have meaning?" or "Does God even care?" can affect every facet of our day-to-day experiences.

    When we have a question, we need an ANSWER. God provides the answer in His Word, the Bible. His answer is affirmative, comforting and healing. He answers with one simple, yet profound, word: Y-E-S.

    In this easy read, author Rev. Kay Mortimer shows from 2 Corinthians 1:18-20, how God supplies an affirmative answer to all of life's questions. Designed for individual devotion or small-group study, Kay has included a study guide of discussion questions in the back for easy reflection and deeper depth.

    May God's love and affirmation settle your questions and bring you peace.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKay Mortimer
    Release dateNov 29, 2015
    ISBN9781311487445
    YES: God's Answer to Our Questions
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    Kay Mortimer

    Rev. Kay Mortimer is an Ordained Minister whose greatest passion is in the study and teaching of God’s Word. She serves her local church as a Bible study teacher, intercessor and altar minister. She also assists in various church programs and outreaches. Kay also writes church drama scripts, many of which she has been blessed to direct and bring to production for the glory of God. These are currently under development and will be made available for churches to perform. Kay writes articles and other books, as well as Bible study materials and devotions. She also has a current radio ministry, audio podcasts, and Youtube videos. Visit www.kaymortimer.com for more details and links to her other ministry offerings. Kay is an active Enrolled Agent with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and had her own tax practice for twenty-four years of her thirty-year career in accounting and tax. She specialized in church and nonprofit accounting and taxes, as well as payroll, bookkeeping, and income tax preparation for small businesses and individuals. She also writes and teaches on a variety of tax and accounting matters. Whether in her professional work or in her Christian ministry work, Kay hopes to be used of the Lord to reach people for His glory and for their edification and growth as disciples of Jesus Christ.

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      YES - Kay Mortimer

      YES:

      God’s Answer to Our Questions

      By: Kay Mortimer

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      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2013-2015 Kay Mortimer.

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Section One: Yes Explained

      Chapter One YES

      Chapter Two The Yes Defined

      Section Two: Yes Exhibited

      Chapter Three The Yes Begins

      Chapter Four The Yes Engages

      Chapter Five The Yes Conquers

      Chapter Six The Yes Spreads

      Chapter Seven The Yes Prevails

      Chapter Eight The Yes Triumphs

      Section Three: The Yes Experienced

      Chapter Nine The Yes Resurrected

      Chapter Ten The Yes Rebirthed

      Chapter Eleven The Yes Reproduces

      Chapter Twelve The Yes Reiterated

      Section Four: Yes Expected

      Chapter Thirteen The Yes Rewarded

      Chapter Fourteen The Yes Recharged

      Appendix

      Study Guide Supplement

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      Section One:

      Yes Explained

      Chapter One

      YES

      Yes: A word of affirmation. A word of comfort. A pleasing answer.

      A child asks, May I have a piece of candy now?

      Yes pleases the ear.

      Will you marry me?

      Yes brings joy to the groom-to-be.

      Do you love me?

      Yes soothes the doubting heart.

      Are we there yet?

      Parents long to answer yes to the restless child who’s posed the question a hundred times over the three-hundred-mile trip.

      Don’t we love to hear it? We ask questions that need answers. Answers can be affirmative (Yes), negative (No), conditional (Maybe), or time-sensitive (Later).

      Our grandchildren ask, Can we go to the store? They want the affirmative answer.

      A friend asks, Would you like to go to lunch? You say, Yes. You pick a place and enjoy a meal together.

      Yes means lots of things at times, but in its basic essence, it’s an affirmative answer to some question. It’s an answer that settles a question in a positive way. It makes an absolute end to the questioning of the moment.

      God has answers in His Word for us, namely one: Y-E-S. In fact, the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, reveals the heart of a God who cries out Yes to the questions we pose.

      Although questions like we mentioned earlier aren’t earth-shattering or life-changing, others do determine destinies. Others do guide life’s pathways, either down roads leading to blessings or trouble. Basic questions burst from the heart of you and me every day, or at different stages of our lives.

      Is there a purpose for my life?

      Is there hope for me, in spite of my past?

      Does God love me?

      Would God forgive me?

      Can I be healed?

      Is there freedom from this addiction for me?

      Even though I’m all alone now, is there comfort in my grief?

      Some of the answers to these carve the paths of our lives and set us on a course for good or bad depending on the answers we receive, or the answers we believe we receive.

      The great news of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that the answers to all of these, and more, is YES. The answer is given to us in the Cross: Y-E-S.

      Chapter Two

      The Yes Defined

      As a student of the Bible for over forty years, and through the in-depth study into its original languages, the author of this book has learned that the Hebrew language is a pictorial language. Many scholarly works abound that expand our understanding of Scripture, including further understanding in the original languages of the Bible.

      In my pursuit of deeper knowledge of biblical meaning, the author consults a variety of these scholarly works, such as Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, and Brown-Driver-Briggs. Over the last several years, my interest has been piqued in learning more of our Jewish Roots of the Christian faith, which launched me into a deeper digging into the original Hebrew language of the Old Testament.

      I heard a phrase decades ago: The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. I do not know who the author is, but I believe this word was inspired. Truth resides in this saying. I believe Christians are just beginning to tap into the deep well of rich treasure that’s been there all along, but we were unaware – until recently.

      Word Pictures

      In the original Hebrew language, word pictures are associated with the letters of the alphabet and the corresponding words that incorporate those letters. Although fascinating, becoming familiar with these word pictures significantly deepens my understanding of the original meanings and connotations in the author’s minds when the books contained in Scripture were penned.

      From this study and relevant research, amazing discoveries abound. One such discovery is the Hebrew word picture understanding for the simple word yes.

      In Frank T. Seekins’ book, Hebrew Word Pictures, he defines yes as

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