Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year

My husband and I use this daily devotional guide every day. We are thourghly pleased with it. It is certainly bread for the soul. We highly recommend it to one and all. It is a sermon a day and brings us to closer walk with our Lord and Saviour. We read it and go away feeling better supplied to meet the day's affairs. Although it was written several years ago, the readings often sound like they were written just the day before.

This is a great Daily Devotional. Each devotion is a gem and has enough meat to satisfy the reader. Also, the author continues to give food for the soul, because if one day is not enough for a subject, he will use as many days as necessary to complete the devotion. This is the first devotional I was really able to get through, because It fed my soul instead of just making a snack. People I gave copies to would ask me if I read my Baxter that day and tell me how much they really loved the book. In my opinion this is one of the VERY BEST daily devotionals. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and still do.

A lot of today's devotionals are geared toward the selfism of our culture and invite you to discover or become a better person with purpose. Yet, Baxter invites you to become a better Christian through a full year of powerful but concise devotions that really are daily Bible studies. That was exactly what I felt led to when I was seeking a devotional to become the basis of my personal study and daily meditations. Even though it is over ten years old, it is still extremely relevant to our modern era and it is intriguing to place Baxter's words into the contemporary perspective following the events of the least several years in our culture. It's no wonder why so many have been sold and continue to sell. It's the perfect self or group study for any era.

I first bought this book in 1968 (when I was YOUNG!). I came upon it up again last week and got reacquainted. What a treasure! HOW could I have neglected it all these years? This is truly a rich daily devotional. Each presentation has a day's worth of spiritual "meat" to chew on! Dry? - NEVER! It is interspersed with beautiful poetry, enhancing the text. You will not be disappointed.