Conforme al corazón de Dios: Cómo ser la generación de David / After Gods Own Heart

by Mike Bickle

En Conforme al corazón de Dios, Mike Bickle enseña cómo Dios está levantando creyentes y dándoles corazones como el de David. La Biblia registra que David era un hombre conforme al corazón de Dios. Ser un hombre o una mujer conforme al corazón de Dios consiste en cómo lo vemos a Él, cómo nos relacionamos con Él y nuestro destino en Él. David tenía una pasión constante por buscar y entender las emociones de Dios. De la misma forma como David, llegaremos a entender y reflejar el corazón de Dios de una manera que aún la humanidad no ha visto. Como resultado tendremos visión, una nueva pasión y veremos el cumplimiento de las promesas de Dios.Este libro enseña que:<li>David estaba comprometido a obedecer el corazón de Dios<li>David era un discípulo de las emociones de Dios<li>David estaba apasionado por ver el poder y las promesas de Dios en su generación<li>Podemos tener un corazón como el que tuvo DavidPuntos claves:<li>Conocido pastor y autor de varios libros incluyendo Pasión por Jesús y Creciendo en el ministerio profético<li>Es un análisis profundo de cómo David llegó a ser conforme al corazón de Dios<li>Al tener hombres y mujeres conforme al corazón de Dios, tendremos una Iglesia conforme a su corazón¿Quiénes comprarán este libro?<li>Hombres <li>Mujeres<li>Jóvenes<li>Líderes ministeriales<li>Pastores<li>Grupos de estudios bíblicos<li>Todo el que quiera una relación más profunda con Dios

Genres: Christian, Religion, Christian Living, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Prayer, Faith

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 2003

About the author

Mike Bickle is the director of the International House of Prayer Missions Base of Kansas City, an evangelical missions organization based on 24/7 prayer with worship that is engaged in many evangelistic and inner city outreaches along with multiple justice initiatives, planting houses of prayer, and training missionaries.

The International House of Prayer has continued in non-stop prayer led by worship teams since September 19,1999, and is committed to combining 24/7 prayers for justice with 24/7 works of justice. Around 1,500 people (staff members, students, interns) serve full-time on the missions base, investing fifty hours per week in the prayer room, classroom, and ministry outreaches. Mike is also the founder of the International House of Prayer University which includes a full-time Bible school, music school, and media school.

Reviews

[Alvaro Lara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spectacular, thanks. Definitely one of the best books i ever read. We are designed to be persons after God´s own heart. It is posible, whit him, with his passionet love for us. God loves you with an infinite love. If you want to respond to his love and to be transformed as a son after his heart i encorage you to reed these book. Sincerely i tell you, god count with mike, his team and this book to change my life forever. Thanks God, thanks Daddy, thanks all the team, thanks all

[Corneliu Dascalu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started out as a boring sermon, but soon enough it had me highlighting something every few pages.
I had a lot to take from it.

However, it also has some chapters I found too weird or extreme.

[Christine Ottaway · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book rather hard going. There were little gems scattered throughout but generally I thought Mike Bickle overstated every case he was making.
He uses David, a man after God's own heart, to encourage and draw us also into a life of intimacy. The basis is good but there are times when Scripture is 'bent' to fit the point he is trying to make.
It is an encouraging book but not an easy one.

[Daniel Crackower · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not recommend this book less. Mike Bickle encourages young people to have a metaphorical romance with Jesus, to be love sick for him. I get the idea of intimacy with Jesus and walking closely with Him, but I find this takes the reader into a type of intimacy you could only find with a misapplication and bad interpretation of the Song of Solomon.

[Tadeo · Rating 5 out of 5]

It has been an amazing journey in this book. One that has shown me how to be a man that is moved by the very Heart Of God. It''s showed me a dynamic way by which I can grow more intimate with God as a student of His emotions. One that is moved by them and responds to them.

[Paula Gama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este livro fala que Davi era um homem segundo o coração de Deus porque soube estudar as emoções de Deus. Ele investia tempo para conhecer o que Deus pensava, por isso era um homem quebrantado e sensível a voz de Deus.

[José & Cecilia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Conforme al corazón de Dios, es una piedra segura para matar al Goliat de la religión.

[Vi · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of four authors to have had an enormous impact on my life

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my third time reading After God’s Own Heart by Mike Bickle. The first time it took me over a month to read because I prayerfully studied every Scripture so it would soak into my spirit. I returned to this book again in this my present season because of some internal struggles I have been experiencing, and wanting to rekindle my love for God, prayer, and ultimately how I view Him.
It is essentially a study of the life of David, searching for what made him a man after the heart of God. He is the only man in the Bible described this way. The question remains: Why?
The author shows in the first chapter that it wasn’t David’s obedience, pursuit of power, or military success that made him a person after God’s heart. Rather, it was his tender heart of love and sincerity toward the Lord. David pursued God in the midst of his weaknesses. He didn’t run from God in times of affliction and pain, but to Him. “What set David apart as a man after God’s heart was his unrelenting passion to search out and understand the emotions of God” (3).
Three areas are highlighted in the first chapter, and all subsequent chapters are built on and around these, that made David a man after God’s heart. The first was that David was committed to obeying the commands of God’s heart. He wasn’t always obedient to God, but his intentions to obey God were sincere. Bickle writes, “God counted the sincere intentions of David’s heart even when his great weakness led him to wrong decisions” (5).
Secondly, David was a student of God’s emotions. “He wanted to know what wonders, pleasures, and fearsome things filled God’s heart” (6). He spent his time pursing God through worship and prayer, as recorded throughout the Book of Psalms. “He had a remarkable hunger to understand the emotions and heart of God, and as a result he had a unique grasp of the emotions, intentions, and passions of God’s heart” (7).
Thirdly, David was passionate about seeing the full release of the power and promises of God in his generation. He “refused to live with less than the very highest God would give him in his day. He never let himself feel disqualified by his weaknesses…” (8).
A fourth powerful motif throughout the book is how he related to God in the midst of his weaknesses. Most people believe Him to be mostly mad or mostly sad. The author contends from Scripture that God’s dominate emotion is gladness. God is mostly glad when He looks on us. Understanding God in this way, Bickle contends, causes us to run to Him in the midst of our weakness and sin, rather than from Him.
The premise of the book is that God, in the last days, is going to raise up a generation of people who have a heart like David. So he discusses many points in the life of David to find out why he was characterized as a man after God’s heart. He then relates all this to believers, so that we can emulate and become a generation after the heart of God.
Bickle spends the first five chapters introducing some of these major themes, then fleshes them out through the remainder of the book. The message is simple: God is not angry or grieved with your behavior if you are sincere in knowing Him and trusting Christ for your salvation. There is a difference between immaturity and rebellion. Many of us think we’re rebellious, but we’re only immature. God delights to bring us into “happy holiness.” The Shorter Catechism asks, “What is the chief end of man?” The response? “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” The theme of holiness and joy go hand in hand. It is this Mike Bickle clearly shows throughout this book.

[Rose on aish · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think if I would've read it in English I would've favorited it, but I read the German translation and it was written with "honorific speech" (Hoflichkeitspronomen) which produces a distance for the reader (I'm sure Mike Bickle didn't refer to his readers as Mr. and Mrs.). The other thing that annoyed me was that there were lots of spelling mistakes. Now to the content: It's based on the life of David who in the Bible is known as the man after God's own heart. David was never afraid to draw near to God, even after sinning and he was like us, a man who had sins. BUT he was always quick to repent, for he knew God and loved Him greatly and passionately. His heart was fixed on the One. He had a zeal for building a place of worship and prayer (which he constantly practiced), a zeal for building a Place for God. Mike Bickle makes it clear that we might become men and women encouraged to experience the pleasure of encountering and reflecting His heart. What I really liked was how the author classified David's life into five parts linked with five places:
1. Bethlehem: faithfulness in the small;
2. Gibea: the test for previous 'promotion'
3. Adullam: the cave of difficulties
4. Hebron: the beginning of the prophetic plan
5. Zion: fulfilled promises
These five phases are visible in Christians who are seeking to delight themselves in Jesus, too. I highly recommend this book!

[Sydney · Rating 1 out of 5]

I loved this book the first time i read it, but just gave up on it halfway through chapter 5 because of the way he speaks about depression. It's a fairly passing mention, but he implies that depression is a choice, and if a person would only experience God's joy, they wouldn't be depressed. To Hell with that line of thinking--it's dangerous and wrong. And leads me to believe he's never actually experienced depression

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

God is zealous for us! He loves us and rains down mercies upon us. I learned that I have full access to the passion that God has for us through intimacy with Him. I have a special place in His heart and if I am willing to lay it all down for Him, then that love and zeal will breakthrough and consume me. What a special time we are in, I am being used by the Creator to write history.

[Dr. Paul T. Blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

The message is great - God is not mad or sad when He thinks of you. Few understand the emotions of God, so this book is necessary in our generation. The writing style could have been improved with some more editing ... so maybe by the second edition.

[Kristin Shick · Rating 5 out of 5]

So often we place God under a label of being judgmental but He is full of love for us and desires us to return that love. The writer highlighted on the intimate relationship between David and God by using examples found in Scriptures.

[elle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book completely rocked me in a good way. I love the solid Biblical approach to a radical lifestyle of love for Jesus.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my top ten....simple and compelling. Bickle is the real deal. I love his passion for God.

[Jane · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mike himself did not write this, gost-writers did, so it a little hard to get through, although the content is life changing.

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

bickle's testimony on his walk with god. enjoyed it!

[Virgil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book paraphrasing the life of David, and his application to us. Goes into 5 seasons of David's life, that compose the whole of human experience.

[Tim Plett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of value to this book. It stirs my hunger for God.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so good! It talks about how a Godly lifestyle should be! A must read!

[Joshua Bocanegra · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's nothing wrong with the content itself, it's just poorly written.