The Coram Deo Secret

a 40 Day Devotional to help you Live before the Face of God

Why is it so hard to be centered on God when we go back into the real world?  For years Marisa Rickerson tried everything to make a deeper connection with God: go to church more, pray more, and be a better person.  Drawing from her own remarkable story of personally experiencing His Presence during a 40-day fast, Marisa discovered the secret to moment-by-moment faith in everyday life. “Coram Deo” means live before the face of God.  Packed with meaty wisdom from the Scriptures and heroes of the faith, The Coram Deo Secret will help you fulfill your quest to be impactful, perceive when God is communicating with you, and go deeper and further as you encounter Christ’s Presence continuously.

Marisa writes, “Years ago the popular Latin phrase, carpe diem, inspired us to live for the moment. A fresh phrase has been released from heaven, Coram Deo, and will train our hearts to live before the face of God continuously.” Reading The Coram Deo Secret will enable you to do the same as you:

  • Experience intimate prayer-closet communion with God even in the real world.
  • Fulfill your longing to live a lifestyle of impact that is beyond mere religion.
  • Trade in bad habits for the one simple habit of living before His face.
  • Break the cycle of broken resolutions and distracted living as turning away from God becomes nearly impossible. 
  • Move from monologue to dialogue in your prayer time and Bible study as you learn how God communicates.
  • End the tyranny of unbelief and lukewarm living by applying coram Deo secrets.
  • Never again say, “I am too busy for God,” as a God-conciousness prevails over your self-conscious exertion, pressure, guilt, and regret.
  • Become an instrument who brings God’s will to “earth as it is in Heaven.” 
  • Watch your worries work themselves out as you prioritize your pursuit of God.
  • Stop feeling alone, unworthy, and disqualified as you experience Christ’s companionship, empowerment, and full acceptance.

Parenting ComParables

a series of short Parables to help you Encounter God the Father's Love

Which of us truly lives with an awareness of the love God has lavished upon us by calling us His sons and daughters? God designed us to begin our search for love first in our natural parents, and then to receive a love more fulfilling from our Father in heaven. Marisa Rickerson knows what it’s like to live more like an orphaned waif than a highly loved child of God.  For years she lived out of a mere head knowledge of the Father’s love until, during a 40 day financial fast, she experienced a heightened awareness of God’s interactive presence during an influx of “parable moments” with her three sons.  With humorous transparency and Scriptural wisdom, Parenting ComParables will help you experience God’s Fatherhood and love as a felt reality so that you can fulfill your desire to be an effective Christian and parent.

Marisa writes, “Living out of a real and reciprocal love relationship with the Father is our greatest need.” Perceiving God’s devoted involvement in your life will revolutionize your spiritual walk and your parent-child relationships as you:
  • Experience God’s Fatherhood and love as a felt reality in your individual life on a daily basis.  
  • Grasp how God accepts you even more so than you accept your imperfect children.
  • See God as a personal, engaged, and dedicated Father, not a distant, disinterested authoritarian. 
  • Heal fears, hang-ups, and past father-wounds as head knowledge about God’s love becomes heart knowledge. 
  • Daily sense God’s presence and hear His voice within your own parent-child interactions.   
  • Obtain Scriptural parenting principles and grow closer to the Father through the process.
  • Live like a child of God instead of the prodigal son or the religious elder brother.
  • Feel a calm assurance that God is active in your parenting. 
  • Perceive the Father’s intimate love messages hidden within ordinary events.

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