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Shelter in God: Your Refuge in Times of Trouble
In a period of almost unbearable uncertainty and fear, many of us have wondered, “Does God see us? Can he help us through this nerve-racking time?” Beloved Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah shares through psalms that God is always walking beside us. Now is the time to Shelter in God.
Renowned pastor and teacher Dr. David Jeremiah believes comfort can be found in the Psalms, not only during the COVID-19 pandemic and during all of life’s greatest challenges. This newly collected volume will show how finding refuge in God is always our safest place. Shelter in God offers hope in a time of uncertainty and relief to people who are experiencing real troubles and fear.
In Shelter in God you
Find ways to worship in times of trouble Discover words of encouragement and hope Show grace when you are at your wits’ end Triumph over trouble with God’s helpShelter in God is an invaluable source of help and encouragement for people facing stress, anxiety and depression, and major obstacles during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Portions of Shelter in God were previously included in Dr. Jeremiah’s classic When Your World Falls Apart.
Renowned pastor and teacher Dr. David Jeremiah believes comfort can be found in the Psalms, not only during the COVID-19 pandemic and during all of life’s greatest challenges. This newly collected volume will show how finding refuge in God is always our safest place. Shelter in God offers hope in a time of uncertainty and relief to people who are experiencing real troubles and fear.
In Shelter in God you
Find ways to worship in times of trouble Discover words of encouragement and hope Show grace when you are at your wits’ end Triumph over trouble with God’s helpShelter in God is an invaluable source of help and encouragement for people facing stress, anxiety and depression, and major obstacles during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Portions of Shelter in God were previously included in Dr. Jeremiah’s classic When Your World Falls Apart.
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Published June 2, 2020
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About the author
David Jeremiah
801 books873 followersDr. David Jeremiah, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, felt God’s calling on his life at a very early age. Born February 13, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Jeremiah was raised in a family deeply committed to ministry. At the age of eleven, Dr. Jeremiah and his family moved to Dayton, Ohio where his father, Dr. James T. Jeremiah, was the Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, and in 1953 became the President of Cedarville College in Cedarville, Ohio.
As Dr. Jeremiah was sensitive to God’s leading in his life, he followed in his father’s footsteps. In 1963, Dr. Jeremiah received a Bachelor of Arts from Cedarville College. In that same year, Dr. Jeremiah married his college sweetheart, Donna Thompson who also was attending Cedarville College as a business major. He went on to earn a Masters degree in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1967. He completed additional graduate work at Grace University and was granted the Doctor of Divinity degree from Cedarville College in 1981.
In 1969, Dr. Jeremiah began Blackhawk Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed a Christian school grades K through 12. In the 12 years he served as pastor, Blackhawk Baptist Church grew from 7 families to 1300 members. He also launched The Bible Hour television program.
Dr. Jeremiah heeded God’s call, and in 1981 he and his family moved to California where he became the senior pastor of Scott Memorial Baptist Church, now Shadow Mountain Community Church.
Shadow Mountain Community Church is one of the largest churches in San Diego County. It is also the home of Southern California Seminary and Christian Unified Schools.
As Dr. Jeremiah began his ministry at Shadow Mountain, he felt God’s calling to continue the broadcast ministry he started in Fort Wayne. In 1982, Turning Point Ministries became a reality.
Today, Turning Point's 30-minute radio program is heard nationally and internationally on over 1800 stations and translator/satellators. In recognition of Dr. Jeremiah’s commitment to teaching the Word of God, he received the Broadcaster of the Year Award in 1999 from the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), in August 2002, received the Award of Merit from the Western Chapter of National Religious Broadcasters for Excellence in Broadcasting and Faithfulness in Service, and in 2006 Turning Point received the Best Radio Teaching Program Award. Dr. Jeremiah has served on the Board of Directors for the NRB since 1996.
Turning Point launched a television program in 1982 in San Diego and went nationwide in 2000. Now seen around the world through cable and satellite technology, as well as on terrestrial stations all across the United States, conservative estimates suggest that close to 200 million homes around the world have access to Dr. Jeremiah's Bible teaching each week. Turning Point Television offers a half-hour Bible study message and a full hour worship service with the same great preaching. Carried on several national and international networks such as TBN, ION, and INSP, Turning Point Television has most recently been added to Middle East TV Network and BET, the Black Entertainment Network.
Dr. Jeremiah is a sought-after conference speaker for organizations around the country. He frequently speaks at Cedarville College, Dallas Theological Seminary, Moody Bible Institute, Billy Graham Training Center, Phil Waldrep’s Senior Adult Celebrations and numerous NFL, NBA and Baseball chapels.
Along with his speaking schedule around the country, Dr. Jeremiah also finds time to fulfill another passion in his life, writing. His books are always gripping and right to the point. Some of his books include Escape the Coming Night, The Power of Encouragement, What the Bible Says About Angels, Prayer The Great Adventure, which brought him The Gold Medallion Award in 1998, God In You, Gifts from God
As Dr. Jeremiah was sensitive to God’s leading in his life, he followed in his father’s footsteps. In 1963, Dr. Jeremiah received a Bachelor of Arts from Cedarville College. In that same year, Dr. Jeremiah married his college sweetheart, Donna Thompson who also was attending Cedarville College as a business major. He went on to earn a Masters degree in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1967. He completed additional graduate work at Grace University and was granted the Doctor of Divinity degree from Cedarville College in 1981.
In 1969, Dr. Jeremiah began Blackhawk Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed a Christian school grades K through 12. In the 12 years he served as pastor, Blackhawk Baptist Church grew from 7 families to 1300 members. He also launched The Bible Hour television program.
Dr. Jeremiah heeded God’s call, and in 1981 he and his family moved to California where he became the senior pastor of Scott Memorial Baptist Church, now Shadow Mountain Community Church.
Shadow Mountain Community Church is one of the largest churches in San Diego County. It is also the home of Southern California Seminary and Christian Unified Schools.
As Dr. Jeremiah began his ministry at Shadow Mountain, he felt God’s calling to continue the broadcast ministry he started in Fort Wayne. In 1982, Turning Point Ministries became a reality.
Today, Turning Point's 30-minute radio program is heard nationally and internationally on over 1800 stations and translator/satellators. In recognition of Dr. Jeremiah’s commitment to teaching the Word of God, he received the Broadcaster of the Year Award in 1999 from the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), in August 2002, received the Award of Merit from the Western Chapter of National Religious Broadcasters for Excellence in Broadcasting and Faithfulness in Service, and in 2006 Turning Point received the Best Radio Teaching Program Award. Dr. Jeremiah has served on the Board of Directors for the NRB since 1996.
Turning Point launched a television program in 1982 in San Diego and went nationwide in 2000. Now seen around the world through cable and satellite technology, as well as on terrestrial stations all across the United States, conservative estimates suggest that close to 200 million homes around the world have access to Dr. Jeremiah's Bible teaching each week. Turning Point Television offers a half-hour Bible study message and a full hour worship service with the same great preaching. Carried on several national and international networks such as TBN, ION, and INSP, Turning Point Television has most recently been added to Middle East TV Network and BET, the Black Entertainment Network.
Dr. Jeremiah is a sought-after conference speaker for organizations around the country. He frequently speaks at Cedarville College, Dallas Theological Seminary, Moody Bible Institute, Billy Graham Training Center, Phil Waldrep’s Senior Adult Celebrations and numerous NFL, NBA and Baseball chapels.
Along with his speaking schedule around the country, Dr. Jeremiah also finds time to fulfill another passion in his life, writing. His books are always gripping and right to the point. Some of his books include Escape the Coming Night, The Power of Encouragement, What the Bible Says About Angels, Prayer The Great Adventure, which brought him The Gold Medallion Award in 1998, God In You, Gifts from God
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April 3, 2021
What a great book! Dr. Jeremiah wrote it at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s filled with comfort and hope. He uses David as an example for us to put our trust in God. There are many valleys in our lives and we need to learn to “shelter in God.” This is one to refer back to often in times of despair.
August 13, 2021
David Jeremiah knows the way to my heart. I walk into Shadow Mountain with my friend who is a member there, she directs me to the visitor's tent, I fill out a card and they present me with this book. You mean I fill out a card and I get a free book? Not the chance to win a free book, but an actual physical book for free? I adore this system, give me more such cards. Then I find out if I come back next week, which I had already planned to do because I was visiting for sixteen days, I get another, different, free book! Then I just happened to be there on free book Sunday, where Dr. Jeremiah gives out a copy of his newest book to everyone who attends that day! I got three books for free in the course of a week! Fantastic!
That being said, I feel like Dr. Jeremiah is a gifted speaker, but I had a hard time getting into this book. Perhaps it was too focused in in the feelings of angst brought on by the Corona virus. I never felt any angst about the Corona virus. It never made me feel fear. I am young, healthy, and have no underlying conditions, so death by covid never really had any power over me. Sure I could be a statistical anomaly and die horribly, but I have just as much a chance of being a statistical anomaly and die a horrible death of being stung to death by bees, why worry about it? And even if I did get covid and die, to die is gain, right? So I didn't really get the hype and angst and concern about covid, and this book was written with comfort for those people in mind. The lessons in it are true for every crisis, even the drag of the mundane, but it was hard to keep that in mind while reading it.
There were some good things in this book that I took to heart. The first is that the storms of life are inevitable, and we can either choose to accept them, be changed by them, and be moved by them to a new deistination, or we can be drowned by them and never recover. That was particularly poignant for me, because while covid never held any fear for me, the reactions to covid on the national and international level have seriously screwed up my life plan. Everything has changed. I don't know where the storm is going to throw me back to land yet, but there is no use in bemoaning what is lost. God's ways are not my ways, and the new destination might be even better than my planned one was. The road less traveled by often has more adventures along it. It's been proven so in the past, even in my own life, why should it be different now?
This book made me consider time in a different way. Time is nearly always portrayed as negative. He's either an old bearded man, moving slowly and with great pain. Or it all things devours, birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnats iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns and beats mountains down. Those are all true, but devouring all things isn't neccesarily negative. Time devours pain as well. It causes hurtful memories to fade and puts distance between us and our brokenness. Time is a gift. Imagine if the pain we feel when we are betrayed were eternally with us, eternally present, unchanged and just as sharp as when first we felt it? Could we remain sane as pain upon pain built up? But we don't have to endure such things, we live within time, and time fills all holes and mends all wounds, either by burying them under a weight of memory, or by consigning them to be forgotten. Time as merciful. I never really thought of it that way before, but I think its apt.
The main message of this book is something that is so well known it seems cliche: count your blessings. Dwell on what God has done for you, rather than on everything that seems to be going wrong. Excellent advice, simple advice, except that it takes great discipline and fortitude to actually implement it. Time does have negative aspects, it is far easier to remember when things go wrong than when they go right. You actually have to discipline yourself to think back on good things and remember God's faithfulness. I have a tendency to throw pity parties for myself. I always have. I can drag up something that happened 12 years ago and convince myself that everyone currently feels the exact same way about me today as that person I met for five minutes way back when did. It's easy. But remembering that air conditioning is a blessing that most of the world doesn't have? Or that if I had been born a mere 50 years earlier I would have had to go to a school for the blind? Or not taking the taste of ice cream for granted? Those things are much harder to bring up and focus on.
The message of the book was just that, discipline yourself to be grateful. Practice remembering your blessings. It's a good message, but for some reason it didn't resonate with me. I felt removed from this book, an observer looking at it from far away, but not being able to participate. I think that 1000 gifts presents the same message in a way that appeals to me more. It was lyrical and poetic and stabbed me to my soul. This one I kind of skipped across like a stone skipping across calm waters, only dipping my toe in every couple of feet.
That being said, I feel like Dr. Jeremiah is a gifted speaker, but I had a hard time getting into this book. Perhaps it was too focused in in the feelings of angst brought on by the Corona virus. I never felt any angst about the Corona virus. It never made me feel fear. I am young, healthy, and have no underlying conditions, so death by covid never really had any power over me. Sure I could be a statistical anomaly and die horribly, but I have just as much a chance of being a statistical anomaly and die a horrible death of being stung to death by bees, why worry about it? And even if I did get covid and die, to die is gain, right? So I didn't really get the hype and angst and concern about covid, and this book was written with comfort for those people in mind. The lessons in it are true for every crisis, even the drag of the mundane, but it was hard to keep that in mind while reading it.
There were some good things in this book that I took to heart. The first is that the storms of life are inevitable, and we can either choose to accept them, be changed by them, and be moved by them to a new deistination, or we can be drowned by them and never recover. That was particularly poignant for me, because while covid never held any fear for me, the reactions to covid on the national and international level have seriously screwed up my life plan. Everything has changed. I don't know where the storm is going to throw me back to land yet, but there is no use in bemoaning what is lost. God's ways are not my ways, and the new destination might be even better than my planned one was. The road less traveled by often has more adventures along it. It's been proven so in the past, even in my own life, why should it be different now?
This book made me consider time in a different way. Time is nearly always portrayed as negative. He's either an old bearded man, moving slowly and with great pain. Or it all things devours, birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnats iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns and beats mountains down. Those are all true, but devouring all things isn't neccesarily negative. Time devours pain as well. It causes hurtful memories to fade and puts distance between us and our brokenness. Time is a gift. Imagine if the pain we feel when we are betrayed were eternally with us, eternally present, unchanged and just as sharp as when first we felt it? Could we remain sane as pain upon pain built up? But we don't have to endure such things, we live within time, and time fills all holes and mends all wounds, either by burying them under a weight of memory, or by consigning them to be forgotten. Time as merciful. I never really thought of it that way before, but I think its apt.
The main message of this book is something that is so well known it seems cliche: count your blessings. Dwell on what God has done for you, rather than on everything that seems to be going wrong. Excellent advice, simple advice, except that it takes great discipline and fortitude to actually implement it. Time does have negative aspects, it is far easier to remember when things go wrong than when they go right. You actually have to discipline yourself to think back on good things and remember God's faithfulness. I have a tendency to throw pity parties for myself. I always have. I can drag up something that happened 12 years ago and convince myself that everyone currently feels the exact same way about me today as that person I met for five minutes way back when did. It's easy. But remembering that air conditioning is a blessing that most of the world doesn't have? Or that if I had been born a mere 50 years earlier I would have had to go to a school for the blind? Or not taking the taste of ice cream for granted? Those things are much harder to bring up and focus on.
The message of the book was just that, discipline yourself to be grateful. Practice remembering your blessings. It's a good message, but for some reason it didn't resonate with me. I felt removed from this book, an observer looking at it from far away, but not being able to participate. I think that 1000 gifts presents the same message in a way that appeals to me more. It was lyrical and poetic and stabbed me to my soul. This one I kind of skipped across like a stone skipping across calm waters, only dipping my toe in every couple of feet.
September 11, 2022
Excellent.
October 11, 2020
Full of Comfort
Dr. Jeremiah’s book Shelter in God is one of his best. I often prefer books by other Christian authors, but this one is different. Using the Psalms throughout the book, Dr. Jeremiah describes David’s experience with God as an example to us to trust in Him. We learn that our confidence is found in God and that He is our refuge, among other things. Sheltering in God is a way to understand what we are really to do during the time of this “sheltering in place” that we do because of the Coronavirus. Dr. Jeremiah shows us that we can depend on Him, that in fact He is our everything; He is sufficient to meet all our needs. Definitely a book for our times. I would recommend this book to believers and nonbelievers alike.
Dr. Jeremiah’s book Shelter in God is one of his best. I often prefer books by other Christian authors, but this one is different. Using the Psalms throughout the book, Dr. Jeremiah describes David’s experience with God as an example to us to trust in Him. We learn that our confidence is found in God and that He is our refuge, among other things. Sheltering in God is a way to understand what we are really to do during the time of this “sheltering in place” that we do because of the Coronavirus. Dr. Jeremiah shows us that we can depend on Him, that in fact He is our everything; He is sufficient to meet all our needs. Definitely a book for our times. I would recommend this book to believers and nonbelievers alike.
August 25, 2020
I don’t know if you would understand me when I share this is my WOW book that I can return to the next pages this is a perfect tool to read during this pandemic. David Jeremiah is one of my favorite actors and preachers and teacher for He shares the Word for it to be rooted and planted within the heart.Amen
December 15, 2020
A Fresh Perspective
Instead of the usual pop psychology of being full of joy all the time to the point where we are not being honest even before God in prayer, this author shows psalm after psalm of a man after God's heart, David, who was unafraid to be vulnerable before God. Vulnerability in prayer is a good thing, and this is what was away with from this book.
Instead of the usual pop psychology of being full of joy all the time to the point where we are not being honest even before God in prayer, this author shows psalm after psalm of a man after God's heart, David, who was unafraid to be vulnerable before God. Vulnerability in prayer is a good thing, and this is what was away with from this book.
August 31, 2020
Written at the beginning of the covid-19 shutdown, this book highlights a few of the Psalms, reminding us of God's control, power, care, and presence. It has helped to keep my mind where it needs to be during these uncertain times.
August 2, 2021
David Jeremiah is a wonderful author of Christian living books. He makes everything easy to understand, inspires, and brings out points i have never thought of. This book offers help during times of trials and fear
October 24, 2021
We enjoy David Jeremiah sermons in my household and he has been our preacher since the pandemic started. This book covers selected Psalms that give us explanations how it can apply to us during this time.
December 9, 2025
Aside from his prophecy books, this has been my favorite of Dr. Jeremiah's books. A great dive into Scripture and how we can look to David as an example in the myriad of circumstances he was in and how he sheltered in God.
July 28, 2020
Wow. Just...wow.
August 9, 2020
So well done, of course. Dr. Jeremiah takes several of the Psalms written by David and unpacks each one with truthful and encouraging insight. I used it as a devotional - one psalm each day.
August 11, 2020
This was an ok time book to read during this pandemic and a reminder of God’s sovereignty and for me to stay focused on God. Thank you Dr Jermiah!
January 10, 2021
Thought provoking, challenging and comforting. Written in response to the Coronavirus, Dr Jeremiah looks at different Psalms and applies them to our lives.
January 19, 2021
I have been reading a little in this book each night. The author penned the words especially for 2020. Encouraging and steadfast
April 6, 2021
Fabulous book for times of struggle
August 9, 2022
Wonderful book!
September 10, 2023
I am SO sick of hearing about covid. I was given this book for free after visiting Shadow Mountain Church. I appreciate the free book.. I wish it wasn't about such an irksome topic to me.
August 9, 2024
Jesus Christ Is My Shelter ✝️ ⚓️ ❤️
March 16, 2023
Great read on having strength, especially in these unsteady times.
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